Starfield has sold over 10 million, as officially confirmed by Bethesda in a public release a few days ago.
Read the release again, they claimed to have crossed 10 million "players". Remember the big numbers from Starfield are coming from Game Pass subscriptions. This makes sense because your paying $9 a month for a game library and Starfield is just included in the list, basically free if your paying anyway for other games. Based on Steam numbers the sales for the game is much slower than Bethesda would have you believe from the data.
In truth however this was EXACTLY what Microsoft wanted, Starfield has driven up Game Pass subscriptions. I know quite a few people that paid for one month just to try out Starfield and maybe a few other games and then let the subscriptions lapse. I know others that found other games and are doing a second month now or that enjoy Starfield and just kept the subscription.
BG3 did not have this subscription model to "pad" their numbers. Also consider that Starfield launched on Game Pass and Steam at the same time. BG3 launched on PC (GOG and STEAM) and then a month later on PS5 and a month later on Apple and still has not launched on XBOX. Yet BG3 has been ahead of Starfield in Steam sales (using Steams charts) most days since Starfield launched and has always had more players daily.
