I think it's doing fairly well. Not sure what their expectations were. But as I posted earlier it surpassed 6 million players in 2 days. Best launch for a Bethesda game.
It has the benefit of being on Steam and Game Pass for PC and Xbox.
That's certainly a fair point. I'm just not sure what to make of the game pass numbers.
And really, I'm having a hard time reconciling those numbers with the much smaller number of concurrent players on steam.
There's something about it all that feels very PR'ish.
We're not going to know for a while. When BG3 came out, it was only on PC marketplaces. We can track those. When Starfield came out, it was on Xbox as well as PC. Given it is a semi-exclusive, a large portion of sales will be through Microsoft, which cannot be observed or interrogated. Bethesda is also notoriously opaque about their sales numbers. If you go to the Wikipedia page for the list of best-selling video games, you'll note the lack of Skyrim, which makes no sense as it has one of the greatest longevities of any singleplayer game ever. If you go to the Talk page, you get a straight answer: Bethesda is vague about its sales numbers, and the sources of those sales. Why? I don't know, but that's how it is.
Starfield is likely not performing as well relative to this current age as Fallout 4 or Skyrim in their times, but this can easily be attributed to the lack of IP fame, a disinterest in the setting, or, yes, the quality of the game. But we will not know for sure for some time. Then again, the numbers on Xbox could be revolutionary, and we just don't know.
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