Microsoft exec says Starfield has 'the fewest bugs any Bethesda game ever shipped with'

pcgamer.com:

According to Microsoft Game Studios head Matt Booty, a man who presumably doesn't mind being haunted by his words, Starfield currently has fewer bugs than any previous Bethesda game has had at launch.

«We have an awful lot of people internally playing [Starfield],» Booty said on a Giant Bomb stream this week (via VGC). «Working with Todd and the team, I see bug counts and, just by the numbers, if it shipped today, this would have the fewest bugs any Bethesda game ever shipped with.»

I love a statement like that. Booty's just talking about «the numbers,» so even if turning your spaceship left erases your C: drive, he might technically be correct. But even if the statement is true in spirit, and Starfield has a relatively bug-free launch, Booty has set himself up to be quoted whenever so much as one inch of an object clips through another object. 

I respect the bravery of making yourself the guy who said Starfield wouldn't be as buggy as other Bethesda games. Maybe it's just his way of collecting bug reports to pass on to Todd Howard and team, since you know every one of them is going to be tweeted at him?

Speaking of, has anyone sent Booty this still from a gif on the Starfield Steam page where the character's left hand has completely missed their gun's foregrip? Only a matter of time, I'm sure.

The statement also makes me wonder: Has Bethesda really logged the number of known bugs each of its games had at launch? If so, I'm desperate to see those numbers. (I assume Booty's just referring to Bethesda Studios games, which date back to Morrowind, and not Bethesda games in general, which date back to the '80s, because how many bugs could an Amiga game possibly have?)

I sort of appreciate the unpredictability of Bethesda's