Rumor: Starfield Pre-Orders Could Be Happening Soon

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Bethesda seems to have made a few updates to Starfield's Steam page very recently, and eagle-eyed gamers caught it quickly thanks to SteamDB's page update repository. With the game slated for a 2023 release window, chances are good that the ability to pre-order the game will be coming sometime in the short term, though the specifics are still mostly unclear.

Starfield is almost certain to be one of the biggest releases of the next year, and being a first-party Xbox game thanks to Microsoft's relatively recent acquisition of Bethesda, it too gets to feature various Xbox insignia and promotional materials on its Steam store page. While these materials don't necessarily confirm that the pre-order option would be coming already, the fact that someone is updating the game's store page suggests that something is bound to happen soon.

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Since Starfield is one of the most hyped upcoming video games at this time, it's not particularly odd that gamers would keep checking its store page or, indeed, its SteamDB repositories. It was the members of Starfield's Reddit community who first spotted the fact that Bethesda has seemed to be updating the game's Steam page over the past couple of days. Specifically, the game received a full suite of Xbox-themed banners to appear across all major implementations of the Steam interface.

There are two major possibilities in play here, with Bethesda likely looking either to reveal the game's official hardware requirements over the coming days or to put it on sale as a pre-order. Since Starfield will be Bethesda's largest game yet, odds are good that both the publisher and the developer will attempt to maximize its