Starfield becomes Bethesda’s biggest ever launch with 10 million players

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During the E3 presentation in 2018, Bethesda took to the stage and teased an open-world RPG set in space and called it Starfield. It would be the first IP developed by Bethesda in over 25 years. After years of anticipation, the developer finally launched Starfield on September 6 exclusively for the Microsoft Xbox and Windows. Despite not even one month elapsing since it was launched, Starfield is already being lauded as the game of the year by many, with high critic scores and rave reviews from players.

This hype created by Starfield has created a bit of history for Bethesda as well. In an X post, Bethesda announced that Starfield has become the company's biggest launch ever with as many as 10 million players playing the game. “Thank you to more than 10 million #Starfield explorers for creating the biggest launch in Bethesda history”, Bethesda wrote.

Starfield is a role-playing game developed by Bethesda Game Studios. In the game, a group of space explorers is on the hunt for the artifact that could unravel the mysteries of the Universe. Starfield promises an all-in-one package of exploration, combat, spaceflight, character creation, quests, and more. The game features over 1000 planets in 100 different star systems, all of which can be explored.

Congratulating the game's early success, the official account of Xbox commented on Bethesda's post, “Galaxy-sized congratulations, explorers”.

Early on in its development, Starfield was described as ‘Skyrim in space' by its director Todd Howard, which is a plaudit in itself. Starfield was not only made available for sale on September 6 but was also introduced on Xbox Game Pass as a Day 1 release, which might have contributed to the big numbers.

Interestingly, at the game's first