Starfield has had an fascinating trajectory. Following an intensive and prolonged advertising and marketing technique, the sport launched to a substantial amount of curiosity, amassing greater than 10 million gamers inside its first month. Since then nonetheless, progress has slowed down considerably, with the title garnering only a couple extra million gamers within the months since.
Back in September, Bethesda revealed that Starfield had seen greater than 10 million gamers flock to the brand new sci-fi RPG within the month following its launch on the first of September – on the time turning into the studio’s greatest launch ever. Since then nonetheless, it appears as if momentum has slowed down considerably.
Taking to the stage at CCXP23, CEO of Xbox Gaming Phil Spencer provided up to date statistics on Starfield’s success, saying “one of many particular issues about my job is I get to play video games very early within the growth. In truth, I used to be taking part in Starfield about this time final 12 months and the sport got here out originally of September of this 12 months and I might inform after I was taking part in – and the truth that I could not cease taking part in – that this was most likely going to be a fairly particular sport. So you by no means know when one thing goes to be a success but it surely was good to see how profitable it has been.”
Spencer continued, “In truth, Starfield has now had over 12 million gamers for the reason that launch of Starfield and it nonetheless sits in our prime 10 most performed video games from our studios, so thanks everyone for all of the assist on Starfield and making it an incredible hit.”
While 12 million gamers is definitely nothing to smell at, it’s fascinating to see simply how rapidly the sport appears to have dropped off player-wise. Being an Xbox Game Pass title, Starfield will undoubtedly proceed to see new gamers flock to the title every day, however it’s curious nonetheless to see simply how rapidly its progress appears to have slowed down for the reason that sport’s launch month.
KitGuru says: What do you consider Starfield? Were you one of many 10 million gamers at launch? Why do you suppose the sport’s progress has slowed down so considerably? Let us know down beneath.
