Starfield, a 1,000 planet space RPG from Bethesda Game Studios, has surpassed 10 million gamers in its first two weeks. Starfield hands players the controls to a spaceship and instructs them to explore a galaxy’s worth of star systems, moons, and planets. Starfield features a lot for players to do, with various factions to join, friends to romance, the flexibility to create one’s own ships and settlements practically anywhere in the galaxy, and more.
As the long-awaited game approached its release date, several speculated that its exclusivity to the Xbox ecosystem as a first-party product would limit its success. Closing the door to possible sales on PlayStation was a dangerous decision for an Xbox that had been battling to strengthen its own roster of AAA platform exclusives up to this point. This anxiety began to fade in the days following the game’s historic debut, as Bethesda’s space RPG had entered the hands of six million players just one day after its September 6 release, becoming Bethesda’s biggest launch of all time.
Starfield has now reached yet another significant milestone.
The official Starfield account congratulated a whopping 10 million people for playing the game on Twitter. This comes just one day shy of two weeks after the game’s release and is likely based on the gamers that received access to Bethesda’s latest RPG one week early.
In this day and age, it’s safe to assume that a large number of the game’s 10 million users obtained the game through Xbox Game Pass. While it outsold Xbox’s Forza Horizon 5 in terms of retail and digital sales, it fell short of Forza Horizon 5’s record of 10 million players in a single week. Nonetheless, Starfield’s most recent accomplishment is pretty outstanding.
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