I’ve been writing about video games, television and movies for Forbes for over 10 years, and you may have seen my reviews on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. I cover all manner of console and PC games, but if it’s about looting or shooting, I’m definitely there. If I’m watching something, it’s usually science fiction, horror or superheroic.
No, with all the near-perfect games out in 2023, I do not believe that Starfield has a shot at GOTY. And at this point, I’m doubting that it’s going to make most award show/publication top 5-6 lists. However, like Hogwarts Legacy before it, theof this game is really quite stunning, and continues to be a full two months after launch.
I was skeptical of Microsoft selling this as “Bethesda’s biggest launch ever” as with Starfield in Game Pass, that was not a huge shock. And of course, we’re not going to know exact sales given that Game Pass inclusion.that doesn’t have PvP, co-op or even official mod support yet like Bethesda’s other games. It is also a game with what I would consider to be a somewhat hard ending, despite its New Game Plus loop. And yet here we are.
Finally, there’s the performance of Xbox as a whole. The gaming unit made $3.9 billion this past quarter, its largest Q1 ever. That was driven at least in part by Starfield’s performance, where it sparked the single highest day of Xbox Game Pass in the history of the service, part of the quarter’s 13% increase in content and service revenue, actually offsetting a 7% drop in hardware sales. Wild.
It is really hard to measure Starfield’s success because of Microsoft’s Bethesda acquisition and convoluted release strategy. I think if Bethesda was still independent we would see just normal PC, PlayStation and Xbox sales numbers and they would be huge. But if you sift through the data you can see just how well Starfield is performing, even if it doesn’t end up showered with rewards at the end of the year here.
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