The release version of Starfield turned out to be extremely popular. Phil Spencer announced that on the day of the launch, the total online game exceeded one million people.
The head of Xbox did not provide a breakdown by platform. According to SteamDB, on September 6, the maximum number of simultaneous players only in the Steam version of Starfield was 269,177 people.
Also in an interview with CNBC, Spencer said that Starfield has collected more vishlists on Steam than any other game of the company. In addition, Starfield is now the most popular Xbox console exclusive among all Microsoft’s internal studio games released on the Xbox Series.