Starfield Tops 6 Million Players, Biggest Bethesda Launch of All Time - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 07 September 2023 / 6,046 Views
Bethesda announced Starfield has surpassed six million players as of this morning, which is enough to make it the biggest launch ever for a Bethesda game.
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer revealed the game on launch day yesterday surpassed 1 million concurrent players across all platforms. The RPG did reach 234,502 concurrent players on Steam in its first two hours of Early Access on September 1.
Starfield released for the Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Xbox Game Pass on September 6.
As of this morning, #Starfield has already surpassed 6 million players, making it the biggest Bethesda game launch of all time. pic.twitter.com/4yZa1lAYjW
— Starfield (@StarfieldGame) September 7, 2023
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Massive congrats to Xbox and Bethesda! It's an especially impressive number when you consider it's only been on Game Pass for 1 day and it launched in the middle of the work week. Be great to see how much bigger it gets this weekend.
congratulations! i pre ordered the Starfield Constellation Edition and best buy said they shipped it today, looking forward to it
Truly impressive numbers, I believe this might just make Starfield Xbox's biggest launch ever. I know that Forza Horizon 5 did 4.5m players in the first 24 hours, and though this 6m Starfield number is more like first 32 hours, I would imagine the first 24 hours was bigger than Forza Horizon 5. Halo Infinite we never got a launch number for it, so we can't compare there, all we know is that it hit 20m players after about 2 and a half months, which was faster than Forza Horizon 5 hit 20m players (6 months).
Man this game is showing some peoples true colours lol salty as fuck.
Stop burying your head in the sand, I'm on PC, I got two friend who got the game. One of them has a 4090 (I have a 4080), they said the game is buggy and has a very bad optimisation. And that's not only them, you know it. I could careless about your consoles war. I'm not a corporate slave. Take notes because I sure do know what you are.
I also play this game on the PC and have a 3080ti with an old CPU (Ryzen 3 3900...not 3900x) and it is NOT buggy for me, nor does it seem poorly optomized (granted it's not well optomized either, its pretty average compared to other titles I've played). I play on full 4k with max settings plus have a whole post processing suite going with ReShade that significantly effects performance. With all of that, I get about a smooth and consistent 40 - 45 FPS (I could have the FPS significantly higher by turning off ReShade and dropping down to 1440p, but because it is so smooth, I value the visual improvements more than an extra 30/40 FPS).
In my experience, games acting buggy and that seem poorly optomized on the PC are more often times caused by driver issues. An example of this is about a month ago, when I was playing Baldurs Gate 3, my computer would completely turn off cold (kept getting a Critical Kernal 41 Error). Turns out, it was the newest Nvidia Graphics driver update that was causing it because the moment, I rolled back to the previous driver, it worked perfectly and I never had that issue again. I've had many other poor/weird performance issues on games for similar reasons.
Man this makes your comment in the PC gamer thread even worse lol. I dont even know why i replyed to you if i had to seen this. your a clear troll.
Tell your friend and you my 3060ti that cost a lot less than both your cards is running the game at 1440P@50FPS pretty much maxed out perfectly. Dont know what you guys are doing wrong.
Well deserved. The game is phenomenal.
Fully deserved for Bethesda's best game.
I tried it on cloud via my Xbox One. It started off great. I was very intrigued. Then I flew to a planet, went to some sort of space station that was full of pirates, and couldn't figure out what to do next. Then when I went further into the base, I ended up getting killed by mechs. I have no idea what I did wrong, but that was that. lol
No real sales... Just saw the game is already under Counter Strike on Steam ranking. It was to be expected when it's a 85- metacritic game. Instead of acting like idiots with PC players, they should improve their skills. ;-)
Xbox doesn't post games sales. They haven't in years now. Although we know Starfield had at least 2 million in early access sales. Sales don't matter to Xbox though. Player count does. The game could sell 10 million copies and we would never know.
Counter Strike is a different beast and is always going to be at the top. Whenever it drops from 1st is temporary. BG3 was number 1 for a bit then Counter Strike went back up until Starfield released. Starfield was number 1 globally on Steam for a little over a week, which is really good. I personally expect Starfield to be in the top 5 global best sellers for a while though. Bethesda games usually have insane longevity. Idk what that stupid question was about PC optimization though lol. It runs pretty flawlessly on both PC and console. By far the most optimized game Bethesda has ever made. Questions like that have only been from those that haven't played it and just hating on it. Because you're not hearing those complaints from those that are ACTUALLY playing the game xD
Hopefully we see sales numbers,
Or we assuming most of the 6 mil players are gamepass subs lol
Sorry buddy they already confirmed over 2 million in early access alone. Game's selling well even without gamepass lol
No ‘we’ are not assuming anything like that :) But looks like you are and that’s perfectly fine :)
I wouldn't say "way better" when Ragnarok sold 5.1 mil in its opening weekend and this is player count making it a bit of an apples and oranges comparison. Great numbers for both though, game launches are getting bigger and bigger.
If that 6 million was sales,
It would've been better but of course most of it is all gamepass lol
Last time I checked people pay for gamepass, so they are still paying to play the game.
That's not what they said at all lol
