Starfield Boosts Xbox Series X|S Sales by 76% in the UK - Sales

by William D'Angelo , posted on 13 September 2023 / 2,805 Views

The release of Starfield and the new 1 TB Xbox Series S helped boost Xbox Series X|S sales in the UK to its best week of 2023.

The week ending September 2 saw Xbox Series X|S sales jump 76 percent week-on-week in the UK, which was enough to make it the biggest week for the Xbox Series X|S, according to GfK games boss Dorian Bloch who spoke with GamesIndustry.

The week ending September 9 is currently the second best week for the Xbox Series X|S in the UK of 2023.

Starfield Boosts Xbox Series X|S Sales by 76% in the UK

The Premium Edition of Starfield and the new 1 TB Xbox Series S became available on September 1, while the official launch of Starfield was on September 6.

The new 1 TB Xbox Series S accounted for 24 percent of all Xbox consoles sold for the week ending September 2 and 20 percent for the week ending September 9. The standard Xbox Series X saw sales jump 46 percent for the week ending September 2.

"It is currently the best week this year for Series X," said Bloch. "And the following week [ending September 9th] is the fourth best for X. In-between is week one and week six, which were early year blips."

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 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.

20 Comments

shikamaru317 (on 13 September 2023)

Hopefully they can manage to keep this increased sales momentum going for the rest of the year, between Forza, 3rd party releases, and hopefully some good Holiday bundles/pricing.

DonFerrari shikamaru317 (on 14 September 2023)

You know it won't, even major system sellers would drop on the following weeks.

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Qwark (on 13 September 2023)

While this is a great jump, we also need to consider what the Xbox baseline is so far this year. But hopefully it keeps the momentum going for a while.

G2ThaUNiT Qwark (on 13 September 2023)

Xbox just needs to have consistent releases. 2024 does look to be pretty stacked for them so far.

Qwark G2ThaUNiT (on 13 September 2023)

2024 indeed looks great for Xbox, perhaps we het dome extra announcements this week

Koragg (on 14 September 2023)

Nice boost for Xbox, let's see how long it lasts...

Random_Matt (on 13 September 2023)

Libara Random_Matt (on 13 September 2023)

Basing this on facts or drivel?

DonFerrari Libara (on 14 September 2023)

Series sales have been like 25-30% down YTD compared to previous year and it was already not impressive last year from what I remember, PS5 have been outselling Switch+Series from what I remember. so unfortunately Series baseline in UK have been very small.

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Azzanation Random_Matt (on 13 September 2023)

Whats wrong with the Series S sales?
Thats like complaining that a game launched and it boosted Steam Deck numbers..
I dont get your point

Odd-Sherbert (on 13 September 2023)

VersusEvil Odd-Sherbert (on 13 September 2023)

“ The metacritic user reviews tell all” LOL

G2ThaUNiT VersusEvil (on 13 September 2023)

Got a good chuckle out of me xD

Libara Odd-Sherbert (on 13 September 2023)

Show me on the doll where Xbox touched you.

zero129 Libara (on 16 September 2023)

He is clearly trolling thats all dude.

shikamaru317 Odd-Sherbert (on 13 September 2023)

The Starfield user score is mostly the result of a review bomb campaign by trolls, some from disgruntled Sony fans, some from the anti-woke crowd angry over the pronoun option at the start, that is why it has so many reviews in the red tier and barely any in the yellow tier. Nobody that has played it legitimately thinks Starfield is a 0-4/10 game, a game would have to be completely broken and unenjoyable to warrant anything less than a 5/10 review, and while Starfield has some bugs for sure, the overall package is certainly enjoyable.

DonFerrari shikamaru317 (on 14 September 2023)

The 77% positive reviews on Steam (that only buyers can vote) is because of Sony trolls or anti-woke that decided to expend a lot of money buying multiple copies of the game to tank its score?

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shikamaru317 DonFerrari (on 14 September 2023)

Steam User reviews were low because of some performance issues, the game wasn't running very well on launch, particularly on Nvidia hardware. Recently, Nvidia released new drivers and Bethesda dropped a hotfix yesterday that improved performance and crashes as well. I'm hearing that the game runs much better on PC now, so I would expect to see the User Score go up somewhat over the next several days.

The fact that user reviews are 77% positive on Steam, the platform where the game has the most issues, and only 58% positive on Metacritic for Xbox Series (and PC), tells you all you need to know about how Metacritic's user review system is being abused by a troll campaign against the game.

zero129 DonFerrari (on 16 September 2023)

Hey Don what was the the steam review scores on No mans sky when it released compared to now? Or Cyberpunk? etc ... Oh right steam users can leave bad reviews now if they dont enjoy something in the game or how the game performs or for whatever reason etc and change their mind when the game is more to their liking. Like i said just look at Cyberpunk?, No mans sky? countless of other steam games. and to try act like review bombing isnt a think on steam too is silly. Since going by Sony fans almost all of them own PC's if they are to be believed?.