If everything went according to plan, then Starfield it was supposed to come out last week. Unfortunately, Bethesda did not have time to finish everything by a significant date – 11 years after the release of Skyrim. However, this is just one of many games pushed back to 2023.
Studio Arkane has also decided not to release its vampire co-op shooter Redfall this year – while there is no exact release date yet, it is already known that this game will be released sooner than Starfield. How does Microsoft feel, which spent $7.5 billion buying ZeniMax and received a very weak 2022 for its own releases?
According to Phil Spencer, everything is fine. He told reporters about it The limit:
We’ve released games too early in the past, but in the long run, when you look at games like Starfield that took a long time and were a huge investment in a new IP by one team, the decision to give that team more time to do things is right.
Spencer added that the company still considered the financial implications of that decision Starfield and Redfall are the first ZeniMax games for Xbox.
I wanted to make sure teams felt supported by Xbox. Perhaps they feel the benefits of being part of a larger organization that has other sources of income…
Starfield and Redfall will be released in the first half of the year. Presumably, the second will appear in March, but the first will follow in May or June. Both games will only release on PC and Xbox Series.
