Yeah itâs weird how much pushback Phil Spencer got for saying he wants this to be the most played Bethesda game ever when the numbers in this thread suggest itâs very realistic possibility. I mean, Skyrim had 7 million sales in itâs first week. Starfield doesnât even have to do as well as Forza Horizon 5 or Halo Infinite to achieve that in player count.
Whereâd 2 months come from? Starfield doesnât have to do 30 million right away, it took several years for Skyrim to hit that number - Starfield just has to beat that number in the next several years. Assuming the game is up to the quality weâd hope, I think itâs a very attainable goal. Sure, itâs a next gen only game (though thatâll be less of a problem as time goes on) and itâs on less consoles and thatâs all going to take away from their potential playercount but the game is also gonna be so much more accessible for a wider audience now that itâll be available on gamepass and through streaming.
I think key stat we would have to know is retention and possibly how it effects retail and digital sales. However massive numbers to have people playing these games
Thatâs true, but my point being Starfield doesnât have to beat Skyrim right away - Skyrim has been out for ten years, it doesnât have to do that in a couple months, if it beats Skyrims total sales in playercount over a decade itâs still the most played Bethesda game. And over that decade the playerbase on Xbox Series S and X is only gonna grow.
I wasnât talking about beating Skyrim⌠I was talking that game could reach 30 million with Gamepass like FH5 has 18 Million already in just 2 months
Aside from them both only being natively available on Series/PC, theyâre also both new IP that have no roots to anything aside from the studios (unlike Halo, Back 4 Blood, etc.).
Oh I just got confused because 30 million is how many copies Skyrim was last reported to have sold so it seemed like you were talking about beating Skyrim. If you were just bringing up 30 million for unrelated reasons fair enough.
Iâm pretty sure that even being a new IP, Starfield will destroy every Xbox 1st party game numbers so far, to me itâs a Cyberpunk case, sadly this one had been hyped for a longer time before releasing due to it having gameplay over 2 years before itâs release.
But, even if nowadays most people donât know what Starfield is, once we see gameplay with starships, crazy brutal ambientation with these space cities etc, the word of mouth advertising will do itâs thing with the âSkyrim in the spaceâ and itâll get incredibly popular in a matter of a few months.
For Redfall iâd say they need content creators to help advertising, if the game is similar to Borderlands, itâll be best played on cooperative, and these games must be popular on Twitch to be a huge hit (and must be good of course), if itâs good and they manage to get some hundred thousand viewers on there, itâll grow quickly.
With streaming being available on consoles now, Iâm sure thereâll be a fair few Xbox One owners who havenât been able to get a Series whoâll at the very least do some dabbling in the game via xCloud, while they wait for a time when theyâll be able to play it natively.
