Strength of MSFS 3rd party dev scene with yesterday release

Yesterday was an amazing day, with the Blacksquare Starship release, and the FSLabs A320 Neo release.  That's two high quality planes, released on the same day.  Sometimes, we have a certain short time period, perhaps over several days, perhaps over a few weeks, or perhaps even in one single day like yesterday, where we get multiple high quality releases in MSFS.  

I think this goes to show how strong the MSFS 3rd party dev scene is.  That's all the better for us MSFS users, to have so many options to choose from, because the 3rd party developer scene is still going strong in MSFS.

And before you say MSFS 2024 was a poor release and the MSFS user numbers are worse than before for the PC market because of the MSFS 2024 release, blah, blah, blah, the total MSFS user numbers for MSFS 2020 + MSFS 2024 is about the same in May of 2025 versus three years ago, in the May of 2022, as per SteamDB, as I outlined in my analysis here (May of 2022 was roughly when we had the initial high fidelity release of the PMDG 737, Fenix A320, Leonardo Maddog, and Just Flight BAe 146): 

And as another data point, in the last Navigraph survey, MSFS even gained market share, after MSFS 2024 came out, among Navigraph survey takers. 

And there are many exciting add-ons to come.  For airliners, we have the upcoming Bluebird Simulations 757 and 767.  Then we have the A220 from Synaptic Simuations + iniBuilds.  Then we have the PMDG 747 coming.  And who knows what FSLabs will do next after they finish with the A320 NEO.  And of course, the Aerostar 600 from A2A.  Plus iFly will probably release more add-ons for MSFS (Boeing 747 too?). And I'm sure Majestic will eventually come around to releasing their Dash 8 for MSFS eventually 🤣. The list is a long one, and I am thankful for all the add-ons coming from so many awesome MSFS 3rd party developers!

Edited June 20, 2025Jun 20 by abrams_tank