Phil Spencer wants to make Starfield the mostplayed Bethesda game ever

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Microsoft gaming boss Phil Spencer has said he’s aiming to make Starfield Bethesda’s most-played game to date.

Starfield is the next RPG from the studio behind The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim – a game that has sold north of 30 million copies since its 2011 release.

However, unlike Bethesda’s previous hits in the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series, the upcoming sci-fi game won’t be released for PlayStation consoles, which have traditionally sold more than Microsoft’s competing Xbox systems and provided a large audience for the studio’s games.

Following Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of Bethesda parent company ZeniMax Media, Starfield will be an Xbox Series X/S console exclusive when it’s released on November 11, 2022. But the game will also be available for PC and, crucially, via Xbox Game Pass on day one.

Microsoft recently announced that Xbox Game Pass has 25 million subscribers and is helping its first-party titles achieve record levels of engagement.

According to the platform holder, Halo Infinite has enjoyed the best launch in the franchise’s history, attracting over 20 million players since its Xbox, PC and Game Pass release in December.

Forza Horizon 5 has also set Xbox records and registered 18 million players since its release for the same platforms in November.

“I love the Forza 5 and Halo stats…I love how many people played Psychonauts 2 vs. Psychonauts 1,” Spencer told Axios gaming reporter Stephen Totilo.

“So, when I look at the teams, when Todd and I talk about Starfield, it’s: ‘How do we make sure this is the most-played Todd Howard game ever?'”

He added of the recent Halo and Forza releases: “Those are the most played games in those franchises because we made them available on more screens than we ever have, through more business models than we’ve ever made them available.”


Microsoft has also said it plans to put as many Activision Blizzard titles as possible on Xbox Game Pass once it has acquired the Call of Duty publisher in a $68.7 billion deal which is expected to close in the summer of 2023.

“Yeah, I want more people to be playing WoW in five years that are playing today,” Spencer told Axios. “I want more people to be playing Call of Duty in five years, more people to be playing Candy Crush in five years, because we’ve made it more accessible to more people.”




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ReidsoPosted:

Better games which can be the most played

Let's leave it to the people who wants to purchase and play the games

tO0tPosted:

lbreadstickl
tO0t
Rareparrot Sorry doom eternal made that not possible


Doom eternal sold like 3ish million no?
Compared to Skyrim that game was peanuts.


I had to google that because it didn't sound right.. " as of March 2020, the game had sold 3 million digital copies worldwide"

The game also released March 20th of 2020. So it did pretty good with the week and a half they had of that month. It's 2022 btw


There's still no way it's Bethesda's most played game. Also they most definitely haven't sold 27 million copies since 2020. The game has an average player count ranging from 1-3k with few exceptions ever since march 2020.

lbreadsticklPosted:

tO0t
Rareparrot Sorry doom eternal made that not possible


Doom eternal sold like 3ish million no?
Compared to Skyrim that game was peanuts.


I had to google that because it didn't sound right.. " as of March 2020, the game had sold 3 million digital copies worldwide"

The game also released March 20th of 2020. So it did pretty good with the week and a half they had of that month. It's 2022 btw

tO0tPosted:

Rareparrot Sorry doom eternal made that not possible


Doom eternal sold like 3ish million no?
Compared to Skyrim that game was peanuts.

THQPosted:

As long as Bethesda and MX market the game a little better, I know many who have no idea this is even a thing but through gamepass I think he will easily surpass on unique players played, gamrplay will need to be good to get anywhere close to the hours played of any other one though

RareparrotPosted:

Sorry doom eternal made that not possible


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