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The participant depend for Starfield has now surpassed greater than 12 million gamers because the recreation’s launch on September 6, 2023. That is in accordance with Xbox CEO Phil Spencer who not too long ago introduced the metric at CCXP23. Which may come as a shock to some after studies famous that Starfield “could possibly be in bother” as a result of its reducing concurrent participant depend. However there’s one factor to recollect within the face of those studies. Starfield is a single-player recreation. A large one, positive. However a single-player recreation nonetheless. And almost three months after launch, it’s protected to say {that a} first rate portion of gamers have moved on to different video games.
Different components are certainly at play right here. For gamers which have moved on, it’s doubtless that they’ve already overwhelmed Starfield’s essential marketing campaign and want to play one thing new. There are a number of glorious video games which have come out this 12 months, in spite of everything. It’s additionally doable that gamers merely want a break even when they haven’t completed every thing they plan to do in Starfield’s expansive universe. That’s comprehensible. Starfield has a marketing campaign that lasts for upwards of 40 hours for one single playthrough. When you’ve completed this feat, you may bounce into the brand new recreation+ mode to proceed leveling, tackle new quests, and purchase new gear.
On prime of all that, there are 10 ranges of recent recreation+ and every one provides new unlockables that weren’t out there within the earlier tier. So, yeah. There’s lots to do and it will possibly really feel a bit overwhelming at instances. Naturally, gamers would possibly must step away sometimes and are available again. Whereas it’s unclear if that is what gamers have finished, I’d wager a big portion of gamers have finished simply that.
Starfield is an amazing hit following a 12 million+ participant depend
Spencer unsurprisingly didn’t point out every thing about Starfield’s metrics. For example, IGN notes that he doesn’t point out how a lot cash the sport has created from gross sales or how many individuals play by way of bought PC and Xbox copies vs Xbox Recreation Cross subscription entry.
What Spencer does point out is that the sport has had loads of success since its launch. “Starfield has now had over 12 million gamers because the launch of Starfield,” Spencer says. He additionally notes that Starfield has made it into the checklist of prime 10 most-played video games from titles that have been developed and revealed by first-party studios.
Spencer needs individuals to play Starfield for the subsequent 10 years
It’s no secret Bethesda’s video games have an enormous cult following. Starfield is basically no totally different. And Spencer needs to faucet into that participant loyalty that individuals have had for hits like Skyrim. Which to today nonetheless has individuals enjoying it with new mods and experiencing new adventures.
In line with Spencer, he needs Starfield to be the subsequent recreation that has gamers diving in for the subsequent 10-year haul. To try this in fact, the sport will finally want some new content material. Even when the multitude of recent recreation+ tiers can supply up new interactions. The excellent news is that Starfield could have new content material. Bethesda has confirmed a minimum of one DLC for the sport and Spencer confirmed throughout CCXP23 that extra content material is coming.
Whereas not DLC, Starfield has acquired quite a few updates to enhance the sport with new options and bug fixes. Simply a few weeks in the past it lastly acquired assist for NVIDIA’s DLSS. So in case you use a PC that has an NVIDIA RTX graphics card in it, now you can benefit from these enhancements. After all, you would additionally simply play the sport by way of GeForce NOW in case you don’t have a high-powered PC.