How Starfield's Launch Compares To Skyrim, Fallout 4, And Fallout 76
Game Pass has changed everything, but we're still looking back to see how Starfield's launch numbers compare to BGS' past games.
By Eddie Makuch on
After years of development, Bethesda Game Studios' big new sci-fi RPG Starfield is finally available, and it's putting up big launch numbers. As of September 7, the game had reached 6 million players and tallied 1 million concurrent users.
Big numbers! But how do those figures compare to BGS' previous big releases, including The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76? You can see a rundown of the key launch numbers for those games below. Bear in mind, though, that the arrival of Game Pass changed the game, because players can subscribe to get access instead of buying the game outright. Not only that, but Bethesda is now owned by Microsoft, and that means Starfield is only available on console for Xbox, while Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76 were multiplatform releases.
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With those caveats out of the way, here's how Starfield's launch compares to the three past releases from BGS.
On September 6, the day Starfield officially launched for everyone following its pre-release period for people who paid more, the game reached 1 million concurrent players. That counts the number of people playing Starfield across all platforms, including PC, console, and cloud. Not many games have passed 1 million concurrent players, and now Starfield is one of them. For comparison, only one game, CS: GO, had more than 1 million concurrent players on
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