Bethesda’s epic space opera Starfield, a game which was once described as “one of the most important RPGs ever made”, could have released on PS5 already.
At least that’s according to well-connected Microsoft reporter Tom Warren, who was speaking as part of the Xbox Two Plus One podcast, where he implied original plans may have involved releasing the port alongside the game’s Shattered Space expansion.
The DLC launched late last year, on 30th September, to fairly unremarkable reviews – attracting an aggregate score of just 58 on Metacritic.
Warren continued: “They’ve been working on [the PS5 port of Starfield] for a while so it should be ready [later this year when the next expansion pack drops]. ‘Should’ be being the key word.”
Elsewhere in the podcast, Warren explained that Forza Horizon 5 was also planned to release on PS5 last year – as was widely reported – so it seems there was a slight change of strategy within Microsoft, and it decided to move these titles into 2025 instead.
Launching Starfield on PS5 alongside the next major update makes sense, we just wonder how well the game’s going to resonate with the PlayStation audience at this point. Word of mouth has been pretty poor for the title overall, and it feels like it could simply get lost in the shuffle this late on.
[source youtube.com, via resetera.com]
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Yeah I'm sure the playstation community is begging to play baby's first rpg made by a studio who hits its peak 14 years ago.
@Thatguyoverthere I agree that Wet was a great game for the PS3 era standards
No thanks I stick with No Mans Sky. And ofc it's been in development for a while for the PS5, it was developed exclusive for PS5 to begin with before M$ started to gobble up the entire market and put the game on hold..
/sigh
I tried so hard to like this game, it's just so thoroughly unremarkable... I'd be surprised if a PS5 release did anything for it's reputation. Still, I'm sure there's people who do still want to give it a go. I just hope they get more fun out of it than I did
@Czar_Khastik they only published this.
the dev is the same dev that make dead by daylight weirdly.
I for one have enjoyed all of Bethesda’s prior games, so am looking forward to this releasing on PS5.
I tried it on xbox before moving on to PS5. As someone who enjoyed previous Bethesda games, I just didn't feel this. Felt boring and dated. Also, lack of 60fps hurt it for me. I could have adjusted by sticking with it, but didn't feel like the game itself was worth it.
Anyhow, hope everyone else enjoys it.
@LordAinsley Oh, you're right. It's such a hidden gem I'll leave the comment as is but thanks for the fun fact
At this point it would be best to wait for the final DLC and then release the complete edition. I put in around 200 hours. It's a good game in places and frustrating in others, a bit of a rollercoaster. My biggest complaint was how time consuming it was for the limited reward.
Probably not worth the effort
From I've seen from reviewers we aren't missing anything special.
I'm still waiting for the game to be beefed up on xBox, I wouldn't feel right paying full price for a PS5 edition when I've already played it and felt a mixture of frustration and boredom throughout. It's a perfect example of exclusivity not equating to actual quality.
@Oram77 An hour of Starfield is what prompted me to box up my Series X and sell it.
Oddly enough, I sold it to a buddy who was looking to buy a Series X to play Starfield, and even he thought it was meh.
They will just be holding off and releasing a ‘master edition’ type thing.
Makes sense for MS to spread their ‘bigger’ games across the year, or their is potential for fatigue.
I think it's going to have a 2.0 update. There's probably going to be a huge overhaul of the game MS is going to market alongside the PS release. How good that update will be remains to be seen.
@Czar_Khastik all attempts to get people to play Wet should remain, agreed
@Zeke68 I mean, it was potentially going to be a PlayStation exclusive because Sony was attempting to gobble up exclusivity rights. Like they did for Ghostwire Tokyo and Deathloop from Bethesda let alone other publishers.
I can't say I like industry consolidation, but Xbox didn't exactly start the practice nor are they the only ones doing it on a large scale, don't hvlave double standards.
Personally the days of exclusive games can't end soon enough the way I see it, they're a stupid concept other than when a game physically can't run on a platform. Can you imagine if DvDs only ran on certain DVD players? People would riot.
I never realized that in Skyrim you are Dragonborn and in Starfield you are Starborn. I can't wait to be NuCuLAr BOrn in Fallout 5.
@Lysterao I can't recall Sony Corporation ever buying up a Publisher like Activision Blizzard, or Zenimax (owning Bethesda and a few other studios)??
Sony has bough a few studios that they worked close with, but not an entire publisher so that's a bad example from you.
And Playstation has always been a closed environment, that's what most of us like about it to begin with.
DVD was always Open Source so yet another bad example.
You not even comparing apples and oranges, more like apples and coconuts.
So no, Sony didn't start the trend of buying up publishers.
Xbox can keep this one
@Lysterao Exclusives are important and its why Xbox is all but over and PS and Nintendo are as strong as ever. Hell without Halo Xbox would have died as soon as it arrived.
Got it on the PC and completed the game loop a couple of times. It's just not much fun to be honest, Skyrim, Fallout they were fun rpgs. Starfailed is just not in the same league. It was no big loss it didn't arrive on PS when it launched, and we're not missing anything if get delayed now.
@themightyant
Would love to see if Starfield goes PS5 and Pro the actual return on investment for doing that work against sales.
I think those that really wanted to have played starfield.
I’m not sure Starfield will sell that well on PS and they might not make the money back on undertaking the ports.
So as a business what is the point of doing it.
Played every scrollslike there is, and I have zero interest in this one. The lazy use of ai/procedural generation ruined this title, as they just chose not to make the effort to refine the tiles that system put out. The result is a largely lifeless uninteresting world, with a few too little high points.
If it ever makes it to ps plus I may give it a go, however given how dated this engine and design is even now, I'm sure when that time comes it will feel even worse so to Play. In This case, they tried to make an ambitious project manifest using lazy shortcuts. They would have been better served narrowing the scope.
Bethesda proper, has a lot of investment in modernizing to do to ever recapture their glory.
I will only get it, if they do a physical copy
@OldGamer999 I mean if Sea of Thieves can sell 1.8m on PS5 then what would Starfield?
And how much work do you think a port takes versus profit? 200k sales at $70 would be almost $10 million USD revenue for Xbox after Sony's 30% cut. Obviously there are other costs, taxes and not all sales will be full price, but it's easy money.
EDIT: for reference the Insomniac leak showed games like Spider-man 1, 2, Miles Morales and Ratchet and Clank cost between $1.5 - $4.6 million USD to port to PC, so they don't have to have millions of sales to make a profit.
They’ve really missed the boat on this one. If it had released on PS5 from the start (as was originally planned) it would’ve been a success no doubt, but now? I don’t think so. The damage is done and there’s zero hype for it.
It sounds like they tried to make something halfway between the vastness of NMS and the smaller, curated Outer Worlds, but failed to capture the charm of either. That said, I don't really enjoy either of the aforementioned games, so would try Starfield on the PS5 just in case I'm the freak who actually likes it!
Can’t wait to undertake this adventure once more, after having played for 200+ hours already. Feeling the dual sense rumble while leaving a planet should be heaven. For me this is the only downside of having sold my Series X.
I played it on Xbox and would do it again on PS5. It was the only game I really enjoyed on my Series X.
Was this ever updated to 60fps?
If not, I have less than no interest in it.
I played this on series X when it released and I think I gave up around 15 hours into the game. I am a big fan of Fallout, but not so much Eldar Scrolls, but I had high hopes for Starfield, even though Todd Howard was doing his usual crowing about something he was involved in would be better than anything in the history of gaming, I guess he stated that it was “the most important RPG ever made…”. In the end I found it boring as hell, the loading screens were crazy and the music was annoying too. Microsoft expected this to sell Xbox consoles by the truckload, but with all the bad press and user feedback, this could easily be forgotten about. Microsoft should just concentrate on releasing all the titles they want multiplat day and date across all formats. That way they won’t have low sales later down the line due to bad press, which of course isn’t acceptable either. Maybe this will help them step up their game too, because people paying £60+ for games that are a bit crap won’t keep falling for that in comparison to people trying games on a subscription service for a couple of hours before moving on.
Eh... I'll give it a chance when it's on sale.
It's mid af. It'll probably sell well amongst those without an xbox/pc but I don't think it will win many people over.
I still kinda love Bethesda RPGs but I couldn't even finish this one.
Every time this game pops up it bums the hell out of me.
The planetary art team absolutely 100% delivered, it can be jaw dropping... and that's it.
It is simply a very very very mediocre game.
@Rich33 It did get a 60fps update….I logged back in on Xbox to try it last year and quickly remembered why I gave up on it in the first place. I even redownloaded it this year when I got a new PC and deleted it within 10 minutes. All the frames in the world can’t save it from being a very average game unfortunately.
@GeeEssEff
Ah - i didnt really follow / pay much attention to updates as it was not on PS5.
More or less locked 60fps is literally a red line for me, no matter how good a game is, so I hadn't even bothered to look at reviews etc when rumours of a PS5 port started appearing - though I will say your opinion of the game seems to pretty much align with the general consensus of opinions I have heard.
@Rich33 If it’s a game you have wanted to play I would wholeheartedly recommend picking it up when it comes on PS5 and trying it for yourself. For many I think It’s a weird experience where it seems amazing for a fair few hours (it got a solid 60 out of me) and you can easily look past some of the issues and even struggle to understand the hate. Then it just starts to become really samey. You realise all the various different systems (which initially seemed exciting) have basically no depth when you look under the hood and it’s actually quite a barren, half baked set of worlds with little to explore or get you excited. Some people still love it and it’s got some interesting quests and ideas it just feels like Bethesda haven’t really innovated on their gameplay or world building over the last decade. It kinda just feels like Fallout in space with all the frustrations and non of the charm.
Don't bother! Todd Howard should be brought up on charges for prioritizing this bland, half-assed effort over Fallout 5.
@GeeEssEff
My initial thoughts from what you say are that it may be good for a sale, but it may also end up being one of those games you plan on getting on sale, but ends up getting missed as there are too many other games you want to play more! Thank you for the info.
That’s the problem with delayed releases. The Day One hype generates a lot of FOMO and impulse purchases. However, releasing on another platform to middling reviews kills the hype quickly. Now PlayStation owners know what the product is without hype blinding them. I’ll get Starfield, but it won’t be Day One like it would have been. It’ll be when it’s around $14.99.
Massive over hyped borefest.
Seriously, don't waste your time or money on it.
@themightyant
This is relevant information. I am somewhat intrigued, but in no way wowed. And if the game doesn't respect my time, it gets even harder to invest.
A game's reputation is everything today. Good news for influencers and media as they should be lining their coffers due to this.
This is a weird one because if this had released day and date it probably would have sold a lot, but since everyone is kinda over Starfield now and the reviews were pretty underwhelming and it turns out it wasn't actually the most important RPG of the decade or whatever, I wonder how it will sell on PS5.
@Kiefer-Sutherland it is a pretty good game but it feels like it came out of the Oblivion era which means it feels dated. I don't play it often anymore but when I do start it up hours pass by pretty quickly. The game is a timesink.
@Rich33 yes it was. You can play it at 30, 40, and 60fps.
I'll trade this for Lost Odyssey, please
@Thatguyoverthere maybe to you but to me they sill make the best games imo.(i'm a bit biased but I still respect your opinion)
Your not missing anything really your not
It's a game that they was hoping modders would realise ***** loads of content for it and they won't even touch it
Just hear to comment on the Honkai Star Rail reference in the subheading. I see you, Sammy. Blink twice if you need help with a gambling problem.
@Chronodiem LOL I’m also in need of help, but missed it entirely
I really wanted to like it. I always knew I was way more into Fantasy than SciFi, but I hoped that Bethesdas gameplay-formula would be what finally got me more into these kinds of Space-adventures... but alas. Onto the shelf it goes, next to Mass Effect and Outer Worlds - both of whom I feel a lot more guilty for never getting into than this.
Really quite enjoyed starfield.
I don't go back to it to much but was good
Really enjoyed it, will probably play again on the pro
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