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Starfield sales were always going to be a question mark, given how many players would be able to play the game from day one on Xbox or PC Game Pass instead of buying it. But Starfield has performed strongly on Steam, and we have new data from the NPD that yes, it did sell well despite the Game Pass “giveaway.”impressive because this is an Xbox and PC exclusive, unlike these other games, cutting out the entire PlayStation playerbase.
, which is something we only get every five years or so, even though this is a new, untested IP. Also, this is the NPD where there are more Xbox sales in the US that across the rest of the planet, proportionally, so that could skew things here. Also, there was noblockbuster competition in this month outside of mostly sports games and Mortal Kombat.
Starfield too was far from the highest scoring game of the year. There are dozens higher, and it’s on the low end of mainline Bethesda games. But it’s selling, and its playercount is high, that much is clear from this data, and others we can extract from places like Steam.
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