![]() How do you feel about Starfield‘s release on September 6? Are you disappointed Xbox didn’t keep its 12-month window promise? Or are you apathetic about the promise entirely? Sound off in the comment section below. Though, it does seem that its 3-month delay is strategic in nature and hopes to ensure that Game Pass subscribers stayed subscribed. It is disappointing that players will have to wait a bit longer to get their hands on Starfield. Or perhaps they prefer to play on PC, so maybe a PC Game Pass subscription will do as a stocking stuffer. You can bet that car enthusiasts will notice Forza Motorsport and will ask for an Xbox Series X|S console. Since racers have a general mass appeal that can penetrate the mainstream, Q4 is a perfect time to hype up the seminal racer sim right before the holiday period. Now this leaves Q4 with an opening, that will likely be claimed by Forza Motorsport. Starfield September Release Means Forza Motorsport Will Likely Land in Q4 We don't have a big game this quarter we want to get to the point of regular releases people can get excited about. "We want to get to this point where there's a steady flow of great (first-party) games coming the customer can predict. Second, it shows that Xbox is strategically spacing out release dates to entice players to keep their Game Pass subscriptions active. This marks the beginning of a quarterly AAA release cadence.ĭiablo 4 is the next in the pipeline in June and Starfield after that in September. During Q1 2023, Xbox shadow-dropped the critically acclaimed Hi-Fi Rush onto Game Pass and Steam. First, it meets the quarterly AAA release cadence Xbox Head Phil Spencer mentioned last year. Starfield’s September 6 release date achieves two objectives at once. Instead, Xbox sought to align Starfield’s release date with another promise it made… Aligning Starfield with the Quarterly AAA Release Cadence So releasing two AAA games in the same month is not strategically sound. Since it’s a new IP, marketing heads at Bethesda and Xbox wanted Starfield to have its own spotlight and marketing campaign. Additionally, Xbox probably did not want to crowd out Diablo 4‘s limelight in June by releasing Starfield in the same month. ![]() This displays confidence that the ABK deal going through. That’s right Xbox already considers Diablo 4 a first-party title. Diablo 4 is Already Considered First Party But it does suggest that Starfield didn’t want to crowd out another first-party game in June, which is…. However, with the September 6 release date, that means they missed their mark. Initially, Xbox promised that Starfield was supposed to launch before the end of June 2023. It’s been over a year now and the gaming media got the full brunt of a never-ending corporate legal drama on a scale never witnessed before. Microsoft is Confident that the Activision Acquisition is Going to be Approvedĭuring our state of Xbox 2023, we predicted that Microsoft will successfully acquire Activision this year. Here are 4 things we learned from the Starfield release date announcement. However, the game’s release date announcement is more telling on several fronts. Of course, this means that Starfield was once again delayed. But it does mean that the game did miss that 12-month window from last year’s Xbox and Bethesda Showcase. Luckily, this seems like the final concrete date, so get ready to wrap up and play for hundreds of hours over winter.We finally got an official release date for Starfield. Starfield has had numerous delays to the game that have seen it pushed back further and further. This comes directly from Todd Howard in a video on the Bethesda Softworks YouTube channel. Starfield will release on September 6, 2023. So, we’ll be forced to wait a little more than it was originally planned, but fret not as this might also mean (hopefully!) that the game will come out not needing one of those dreaded and hefty day-one patches.īut enough talk, let’s see everything we know about Starfield release date, its gameplay, and all the latest news. ![]() Bethesda is following the development of this AAA title and we can be fairly sure it is going to be another mastodontic open-world trek when the Starfield release date eventually rolls around.īethesda had officially announced Arkane space-themed RPG a while ago, but unfortunately, the game got delayed. That means it wont quite make it into the first half of the year, arguably meaning it has sort of been pushed. Are you looking forward to Arkane’s latest space-themed RPG? We know we sure are, as everything we’ve seen out of the game seems to be quite interesting. After being delayed last year, Starfield now has a release date: September 6.
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