Wednesday, September 6th, is the official day that Starfield officially arrives. And now with the game available to the masses – both retail & Xbox Game Pass – the game has already surpassed expectations in its pre-launch. Via the Premium Edition, users already flocked to the new NASA punk, space epic from Bethesda Game Studios. In that, Steam accounted for more than 200,000 users in the first 24 hours of the early access release.
Additionally, multiple Xbox Stores is several regions also attest to this with the Premium Edition Upgrade for Xbox Game Pass users being #1 in sales at the time. Even more, the game is also facing early success shattering a new milestone over on Twitch. The game swiftly became the most-streamed first-party release ever for the platform.
Now according to a new update from PlayTracker, Starfield has met more than 1 million users each on both Xbox as well as Steam during the early access period for the game.
As gathered from the early success for Starfield, it is shaping into what Microsoft told recently about the game. In that, it is the “starting gun” for what Xbox Game Studios has primed for its launch portfolio for the next two years. And more achievements are still expected to be made for Xbox moving forward on behalf of Starfield as the game officially launches this week.
And to think Starfield almost did plan to hit Xbox originally. A report from prior FTC v. Microsoft case revealed that initial plans for the game was aimed exclusively for PlayStation. But after catching wind, Microsoft decided to outright purchase Zenimax Media altogether. You can read the full report by heading here.
Have you played Starfield ahead of release or no?
Starfield is out now for Xbox Series X|S & PC.
