It's also a good sign for the upcoming Xbox Series X/S port, assuming you'd like to install it on your console without uninstalling every other game you're playing. It's unclear what Microsoft did to save space, but we have to assume that deleting that 212-story tower in Australia was worth a few hundred megabytes. That's probably welcome news for anyone with a bandwidth cap they're trying not to exceed or people who want to squeeze the game onto an SSD for better performance. At launch, installing the game could take up 170GB on a hard drive, but notes on the most recent patch mention that optimizations have cut it down to merely 83GB. If you're thinking about diving into the latest ultrarealistic version of Microsoft Flight Simulator, then Kotaku points out that it will be easier now for one simple reason: the game's initial install is a lot smaller.
