Starfield has finally gone gold, and preloads start tomorrow on Xbox
Bethesda has announced that Starfield has gone gold ahead of its release next month.
This indicates that the main development of the game has been completed, and that it’s ready to move to the manufacturing stage.
Bethesda has also confirmed that players will be able to preload the game on Xbox Series X/S starting on August 17, and on Steam on August 30.
Starfield was originally scheduled to be released last November, but in May of 2022 the game was delayed to the first half of 2023.
Bethesda announced a further delay this March, with Starfield now set for release on September 6, 2023.
Had plans for a PS5 version of Starfield not been dropped after Microsoft acquired Bethesda, the game would be releasing later than currently planned, its publisher recently claimed.
“Focusing on fewer platforms has been a big benefit to that team,” Bethesda publishing boss Pete Hines said in July. Being on more platforms would mean “it’s going to take longer, it’s going to cost more. It’s just a far greater risk in my mind.”
Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty told Giant Bomb in June that if Starfield were released then, it “would already have the fewest bugs of any Bethesda game ever shipped”.
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