Starfield's system requirements are pretty odd—don't buy a whole new PC to play just yet

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If you caught yesterday's Starfield Direct, you know that there's some serious scale to Starfield's gameplay and features. It also looks to be pretty demanding for it, even noting in the Starfield system requirements a need for an SSD and a pretty powerful GPU. Yet these system requirements are a bit… odd. Let's just say you might want to wait a little longer before going out to buy a new PC just to play the game.

First off, if you head to Starfield's Steam Page you'll see an additional note saying «SSD Required.» That might be a sticking point for anyone still rocking an HDD as your primary drive (though it is well worth upgrading your machine, SSDs are dirt cheap right now). The thing is, there's no additional note on the system requirements page as listed over on the Xbox website to that effect.

We've reached out to Bethesda for confirmation on that one, and anyways both agree you'll need at least 125GB of space for the game. But beyond that, these Starfield recommended specs are weird, or just misspelt.

For one, the minimum requirements over on the Xbox site note that you'll need an «AMD Raydeon RX 5700». Surprised they missed that one, but then that same line misses out the «GTX» from GTX 1070 Ti. Alright, maybe that's just me being pedantic, but I think it matters.

The recommended specs also recommend users have at least an Intel Core i7 6800K. Now, that might sound like your regular Intel chip from the Skylake generation, but it's not. It's an X-series HEDT processor that was fairly niche at the time of its launch, but far more so today. Intel doesn't make much like it in 2023, nor does AMD, beyond a few extremely high-end prosumer chips. 

My assumption is that Starfield really needs a six-core processor in order