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Bethesda Hopes to Launch Starfield This Year, According to Insider

Bethesda Hopes to Launch Starfield This Year, According to Insider - News

by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 April 2021 / 1,893 Views

Microsoft is in the middle of acquiring Bethesda Softworks' parent company ZeniMax Media for $7.5 billion. This has lead many to wonder the status of the upcoming Bethesda games Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI.

Video game insider NateDrake on ResetEra has said Bethesda wants to release Starfield this year, however, the ongoing pandemic might impact the release of the game. If correct, the game could possibly release this holiday season or early 2022. 

"There has been a strong hope & desire to have Starfield launch this [year], said the insider. "How major the impacts due to COVID have been on the title is anyone's guess, but 2021 was the intended goal for release as of a few months ago."

Bethesda Hopes to Launch Starfield This Year, According to Insider

"I'm not saying it'll 100% for certain happen; but, as of late last year, I was hearing the goal was to launch this year," the insider added. "But it is a Bethesda game and delays or issues may arise to prevent the release from coming."

As always this should be treated as a rumor until an announcement is made by Bethesda or Microsoft. 

A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.


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method114 (on 22 February 2021)

I hope they do it if it's ready of course. Don't rush it though.

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G2ThaUNiT trunkswd (on 22 February 2021)

How times have changed! Before Cyberpunk, Bethesda was the end of all jokes with their games full of bugs galore lol I'm optimistic though with all the changes to their engine that have been made, and of course mods galore!

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G2ThaUNiT trunkswd (on 22 February 2021)

Fallout 76 certainly was broken lol still kind of is too! And definitely a lot of Skyrim has been fixed. Skyrim is almost 10 years old now, and I remember it being a buggy mess BUT, the game was just sooooo good that we would laugh and have fun with the bugs becoming memes.

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SanAndreasX trunkswd (on 22 February 2021)

It did damage the Fallout brand though.

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method114 zero129 (on 23 February 2021)

Fallout 4 actually broke the main quest line on me and stopped me from being able to finish the story. I wont be rushing out to buy anything from them. Then again it will be on game pass day 1 so I wont have to even worry about it.

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KratosLives (on 23 February 2021)

I hope it doesn't release for another 3 years. They need to work on that next gen engine.

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Azzanation (on 22 February 2021)

Don't hope, just release it when its ready.

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Zkuq (on 22 February 2021)

That would be great - in the sense that I'm not interested in this at all, but The Elder Scrolls VI won't be coming out before this, so getting this out of the way would be nice.

That said, this can only be a positive surprise, considering my complete lack of interest. For all I know, this could be great and I just don't know it yet.

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