Nice, seems like legs are promising if the peak happened that late.
Despite only being available in early access, Starfield has managed to top our weekly Xbox Gameplay Chart, beating the likes of Fortnite and Call of Duty:
# | Name | All-Time Peak |
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5. | ![]() | 1,054,388 |
6. | ![]() | 953,426 |
7. | ![]() | 913,634 |
8. | ![]() | 879,308 |
9. | ![]() | 875,343 |
16. | ![]() | 472,962 |
Starfield | Steam global top seller rankings (based on revenue) | Elden Ring | Steam global top seller rankings (based on revenue) | Hogwarts Legacy | Steam global top seller rankings (based on revenue) |
Tue, June 6, 2023 - Tue, June 13, 2023 (1.5 days of sales) (week 1) | 6 | Tue, November 2, 2021 - Tue, November 9, 2021 (week 1) | 5 | Tue, August 23, 2022 - Tue, August 30, 2022 (week 1) | 17 |
Tue, June 13, 2023 - Tue, June 20, 2023 (week 2) | 8 | Tue, November 9, 2021 - Tue, November 16, 2021 (week 2) | 13 | Tue, August 30, 2022 - Tue, September 6, 2022 (week 2) | 27 |
Tue, June 20, 2023 - Tue, June 27, 2023 (week 3) | 17 | Tue, November 16, 2021 - Tue, November 23, 2021 (week 3) | 27 | Tue, September 6, 2022 - Tue, September 13, 2022 (week 3) | 63 |
Tue, June 27, 2023 - Tue, July 4, 2023 (week 4) | 57 | Tue, November 23, 2021 - Tue, November 30, 2021 (week 4) | 100 | Tue, September 13, 2022 - Tue, September 20, 2022 (week 4) | dropped out of top 100 |
Tue, July 4, 2023 - Tue, July 11, 2023 (week 5) | 65 | Tue, November 30, 2021 - Tue, December 7, 2021 (week 5) | 54 | Tue, September 20, 2022 - Tue, September 27, 2022 (week 5) | dropped out of top 100 |
Tue, July 11, 2023 - Tue, July 18, 2023 (week 6) | 39 | Tue, December 7, 2021 - Tue, December 14, 2021 (week 6) | 41 | Tue, September 27, 2022 - Tue, October 4, 2022 (week 6) | dropped out of top 100 |
Tue, July 18, 2023 - Tue, July 25, 2023 (week 7) | 27 | Tue, December 14, 2021 - Tue, December 21, 2021 (week 7) | 38 | Tue, October 4, 2022 - Tue, October 11, 2022 (week 7) | dropped out of top 100 |
Tue, July 25, 2023 - Tue, August 1, 2023 (week 8) | 17 | Tue, December 21, 2021 - Tue, December 28, 2021 (week 8) | 35 | Tue, October 11, 2022 - Tue, October 18, 2022 (week 8) | dropped out of top 100 |
Tue, August 1, 2023 - Tue, August 8, 2023 (week 9) | 10 | Tue, December 28, 2021 - Tue, January 4, 2022 (week 9) | 47 | Tue, October 18, 2022 - Tue, October 25, 2022 (week 9) | dropped out of top 100 |
Tue, August 8, 2023 - Tue, August 15, 2023 (week 10) | 7 | Tue, January 4, 2022 - Tue, January 11, 2022 (week 10) | 16 | Tue, October 25, 2022 - Tue, November 1, 2022 (week 10) | dropped out of top 100 |
Tue, August 15, 2023 - Tue, August 22, 2023 (week 11) | 3 | Tue, January 11, 2022 - Tue, January 18, 2022 (week 11) | 11 | Tue, November 1, 2022 - Tue, November 8, 2022 (week 11) | dropped out of top 100 |
Tue, August 22, 2023 - Tue, August 29, 2023 (week 12) | 4 | Tue, January 18, 2022 - Tue, January 25, 2022 (week 12) | 14 | Tue, November 8, 2022 - Tue, November 15, 2022 (week 12) | 79 |
Tue, August 29, 2023 - Tue, September 5, 2023 (week 13) | 1 | Tue, January 25, 2022 - Tue, February 1, 2022 (week 13) | 11 | Tue, November 15, 2022 - Tue, November 22, 2022 (week 13) | 88 |
Aug 31, 2023 - Early access starts Sept 6, 2023 - Starfield releases | Tue, February 1, 2022 - Tue, February 8, 2022 (week 14) | 7 | Tue, November 22, 2022 - Tue, November 29, 2022 (week 14) | dropped out of top 100 | |
Preorder duration - 13 weeks | Tue, February 8, 2022 - Tue, February 15, 2022 (week 15) | 6 | Tue, November 29, 2022 - Tue, December 6, 2022 (week 15) | 87 | |
Title has charted 12 consecutive preorder weeks in global top 100 so far | Tue, February 15, 2022 - Tue, February 22, 2022 (week 16) | 1 | Tue, December 6, 2022 - Tue, December 13, 2022 (week 16) | 85 | |
Feb 25, 2022 - Elden Ring released | Tue, December 13, 2022 - Tue, December 20, 2022 (week 17) | 28 | |||
Preorder duration - 16 weeks, 2 days | Tue, December 20, 2022 - Tue, December 27, 2022 (week 18) | 36 | |||
Title charted 16+ consecutive preorder weeks in global top 100 | Tue, December 27, 2022 - Tue, January 3, 2023 (week 19) | 23 | |||
Tue, January 3, 2023 - Tue, January 10, 2023 (week 20) | 8 | ||||
Tue, January 10, 2023 - Tue, January 17, 2023 (week 21) | 4 | ||||
Tue, January 17, 2023 - Tue, January 24, 2023 (week 22) | 4 | ||||
Tue, January 24, 2023 - Tue, January 31, 2023 (week 23) | 3 | ||||
Tue, January 31, 2023 - Tue, February 7, 2023 (week 24) | 1 | ||||
Feb 7, 2023 - Hogwarts Legacy released | |||||
Preorder duration - 24 weeks | |||||
Title charted 15 preorder weeks in global top 100 |
Some comparisons between the number of players reached and Steam-only data for some high-profile Game Pass releases:
High On Life (PC/Xbox):
7.5M players in 4-5 months (released December 13, 2022)
11k reviews on Steam
11k CCU peak
Current estimates go from 271k to 436k bought on Steam
Followers: 81k
Forza Horizon 5 (PC/Xbox):
32M players in 23 months (released November 9, 2021)
10M players in a week
138k reviews on Steam
81k CCU peak
Current estimates go from 1.6M to 3.8M bought on Steam
Followers: 349k
Hi-Fi Rush (PC/Xbox):
3M players in 7 months (released January 25, 2023)
2M players in a month
18k reviews on Steam
6k CCU peak
Current estimates go from 260k to 540k bought on Steam
Followers: 64k
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Game (also released on PS):
1M players in 24 hours (released August 18, 2023)
8k reviews on Steam
17k CCU peak
Current estimates go from 132 to 254k bought on Steam
Followers: 43k
Atomic Heart (also released on PS):
5M players in 3 weeks (released February 20, 2023)
24k reviews on Steam
38k CCU peak
Current estimates go from 369k to 990k bought on Steam
Followers: 216k
Starfield's $100 Early Access (as of now):
236k CCU peak
Followers: 411k
I think a lot of people on PC (if not the majority) are going to play Starfield through Game Pass PC (not that it's an issue for Bethesda since it's what they want anyway). Additional factors:
- MS also added Game Pass PC in 40 new countries last April (I think 86 countries overall)
- Early access being $35 with the Game Pass Premium upgrade VS $100 on Steam is a big incentive
- and some may play through the Cloud if their PC can't run the game.
A hour and a half after Starfield's full release at 7:30 pm Mountain Standard Time, Starfield sits at 241,706 CCU
This beats Starfield's early access release peak of 234,502 CCU
Not too surprised at the relatively low CCU. It's a weekday (Tuesday specifically), university and high school is starting up, it's only one half of the world (North and South America), the game launched relatively late in the day in the day in the East Coast and South America. Still, I'd arguing, it's under performing a little in comparison to expectations. It's quite likely gamepass is driving significant traffic for Starfield on PC at least. Regardless, it's a bit too early to conclusively state what CCU performance is going to be. Best to wait until the weekend imo
Edit: Interesting to note as well, is that current the game stands at a 89% positive review rate on Steam at 3,000 reviews. While not to the same level of the overwhelemingly positive steam reviews of Baldur's Gate 3, it is better then I think most (or at least those who were very down on the game) expected. It also reflects, and is one point higher, then the Opencritic score
It's still 88 on PC, but I don't think MC really matters for a game like this. The Bethesda brand carries it far more than a score.Starfield down to 86 on Meta, probably will end at 85 as more reviews come. It will be interesting to see legs/CCU over the next months. Space isn't as popular as medieval fantasy setting.
It's still 88 on PC, but I don't think MC really matters for a game like this. The Bethesda brand carries it far more than a score.
A hour and a half after Starfield's full release at 7:30 pm Mountain Standard Time, Starfield sits at 241,706 CCU
This beats Starfield's early access release peak of 234,502 CCU
Not too surprised at the relatively low CCU. It's a weekday (Tuesday specifically), university and high school is starting up, it's only one half of the world (North and South America), the game launched relatively late in the day in the day in the East Coast and South America. Still, I'd arguing, it's under performing a little in comparison to expectations. It's quite likely gamepass is driving significant traffic for Starfield on PC at least. Regardless, it's a bit too early to conclusively state what CCU performance is going to be. Best to wait until the weekend imo
Edit: Interesting to note as well, is that current the game stands at a 89% positive review rate on Steam at 3,000 reviews. While not to the same level of the overwhelemingly positive steam reviews of Baldur's Gate 3, it is better then I think most (or at least those who were very down on the game) expected. It also reflects, and is one point higher, then the Opencritic score
250K peak at the moment is far far below what most were predicting. We'll see how it fares over the weekend but this is a disappointing launch.
MC might not matter but the big review sites and influencers definitely will.
IGN and Gamespot who take a lion share of traffic giving it a 7 will effect it, as will some recent big youtube/twitch channels posting their thoughts and being disappointed.
250K peak at the moment is far far below what most were predicting. We'll see how it fares over the weekend but this is a disappointing launch.
MC might not matter but the big review sites and influencers definitely will.
IGN and Gamespot who take a lion share of traffic giving it a 7 will effect it, as will some recent big youtube/twitch channels posting their thoughts and being disappointed.
Lets say it reach 400k peak CCU. Thats around 2 million sales first week. GP is mostly on consoles so XB will at must sell half million.
2.5 million first week between XB/PC. FO4 shipped 12 million day 1, sold through 7 million first week. SF is going to sell less then half of FO4 on retail.
I'm not sure if GP can justify this considering USA subs revenue have seen bit of decline from 2021.
The way I see it starfield has 4 main goals in this order of importance:
I say 4 has been achieved this early because of that report of 1M+ on early access. Not sure about the #s of copies sold as we will have to wait some time for that info.
- Be a great game released by Xbox first party studios
- Drive Game pass subs
- Drive Xbox hardware sales
- Have a good amount of players/copies sold (Steam/Early access)
I think 1 and 4 are already achieved.
2 and 3 are the next goals
The way I see it starfield has 4 main goals in this order of importance:
I say 4 has been achieved this early because of that report of 1M+ on early access. Not sure about the #s of copies sold as we will have to wait some time for that info.
- Be a great game released by Xbox first party studios
- Drive Game pass subs
- Drive Xbox hardware sales
- Have a good amount of players/copies sold (Steam/Early access)
I think 1 and 4 are already achieved.
2 and 3 are the next goals
Month | 1 month gpu amazon sales rankings | 3 month gpu amazon sales rankings | Series X |
Jan 2023 | 15 | 48 | 74 |
Feb 2023 | 15 | 50 | 48 (forza bundle) / 89 (standard sku) |
Mar 2023 | 19 | 44 | 76 |
Apr 2023 | 23 | 52 | 95 |
May 2023 | 33 | 93 | 50 |
June 2023 | 10 | 35 | 90 |
July 2023 | 14 | 31 | 53 |
Aug 2023 | 12 | 27 | 25 |
Sept 2023 (so far) | 9 | 5 | 16 |
Year | 1 month gpu amazon sales rankings | 3 month gpu amazon sales rankings |
2020 | 97 | didn't chart in top 100 |
2021 | 45 | 44 |
2022 | 34 | 37 |
2023 (so far) | 10 | 29 |
Doubt that.Starfield w/o GP would have been a lock for 1M+ CCU, I think this is a great example of why day 1 release of the top end AAA games isn’t viable outside of the scenario in which the game is owned by the owner of the service which thankfully for Starfield is the case.
Steam CCU tells us much more about game performance then random player count drop by companies.
There is / was no Cyberpunk 2077 level of hype around the game. Especially if you talk about being a lock.
Lets say it reach 400k peak CCU. Thats around 2 million sales first week. GP is mostly on consoles so XB will at must sell half million.
2.5 million first week between XB/PC. FO4 shipped 12 million day 1, sold through 7 million first week. SF is going to sell less then half of FO4 on retail.
I'm not sure if GP can justify this considering USA subs revenue have seen bit of decline from 2021.
It's premature to call Starfield's launch disappointing when Bethesda didn't release numbers yet.
The number of players is pointless metric IMO. One exemple
"Mortal Shell has sold 1 million units worldwide and reached 10 million players" Thats in 3 years.
Doubt MS will even bother to break down so called players. Like how many unique GP accounts played SF first week etc
Steam CCU tells us much more about game performance then random player count drop by companies.
Except again all that doesnt really Apply to starfield because it's available on gamepass. both on pc and xbox. as much as player counts suck, theyre actually kind of the only way to measure big gamepass titles. just like netflix doesn't measure a movie by box office $ that dont exist, but by watch time or how many people watched. now the fact ms is going to give us some fluffy stat rather than something concrete we can compare across titles is another thing. they dont want to give us info. other than nonsense to make something seem successful. but that doesnt mean it isn't.
Yes if you could only play via a purchase like non-gp titles, then normal game metrics would apply.
not that it isn't great fun to disect steam ccu anyway, but limitations need to be kept in mind.
any sale of the game is gravy to ms as their lynchpin is gamepass and people paying $15/month (I dont like GP as a strategy and have doubts about it's viability personally but setting that aside).
honestly again, if i was a pc player and broke, i would use gp as a rental service. a month or two of gp and i'd get my fill of starfield for 15-30 instead of 70, then cancel it. i used to do that with ea access when it was a thing. a game disc rental back in the day was easily $5-$7 for a few days (and this was years ago when money was worth double), ea access was like $5 for 30 days if there was a game you wanted on there. no contest. so i think a lot of people will do that if nothing else. or another way, it'd be ~$5-6 for a ten day rental of any gp title (just breaking it down another arbitrary pro-rated time frame to show the value vs renting). and you dont even have to go to the store or return anything.
I disagree, it was very hyped. I dont know if it was quite CP 2077 levels, or what is, but it was the most hyped game I've seen in a while.
and hype doesnt mean sales, cyberpunk might have been more hyped imo than red dead or even gta, certainly the witcher, but sold a lot less (cp was a great succes imo, but it still sold much less than those all timers)
Starfield w/o GP would have been a lock for 1M+ CCU, I think this is a great example of why day 1 release of the top end AAA games isn’t viable outside of the scenario in which the game is owned by the owner of the service which thankfully for Starfield is the case.
Starfield is victim of unrealistic expectations, its not because of GP which have little bearing on Steam. Fallout 4 did 472k CCU back in 2015 but that was established IP.
With realistic expectation now that game have released.
500k CCU peak will be great result. 400k will be good and 300k or under will be poor result IMO.
Flat wrong IMO. It has a huge bearing, just like it does on MS first party retail sales since GP existed. There is another avenue that is quite popular to get the game "free". Steam is not a console, it exists as one of many easily available options on Windows. This has been said as a point for ROG Ally vs steam deck in many tech reviews "you can play your Gamepass library or Steam library on Ally but you're limited to steam on Deck"its not because of GP which have little bearing on Steam.
Witcher 3 toke 2 years to sell 14 million.
Siege has always been popular for awhile now and its on of the most popular games on gamepass as well so im sure that helps a lot.#3 Rainbow 6 Siege (this one seems odd unless theres some reason for a bump I'm unaware?)
More damning for me for Starfield is checking just now it's only 5th on Xbox most played. At least if the titles are ordered left to right and not random as I assume. Then it would be #1 fortnight, #2 COD, #3 Rainbow 6 Siege (this one seems odd unless theres some reason for a bump I'm unaware?) #4 Roblox and #5 Starfield. I presumed Starfield would be #1.
Xbox most played are always delayedMore damning for me for Starfield is checking just now it's only 5th on Xbox most played. At least if the titles are ordered left to right and not random as I assume. Then it would be #1 fortnight, #2 COD, #3 Rainbow 6 Siege (this one seems odd unless theres some reason for a bump I'm unaware?) #4 Roblox and #5 Starfield. I presumed Starfield would be #1.
I swear even last month the expectations that this would easily clear BG3 on steam was a thing. even heard people say it would end up reaching CP2077 numbers.
I swear even last month the expectations that this would easily clear BG3 on steam was a thing. even heard people say it would end up reaching CP2077 numbers.
Flat wrong IMO. It has a huge bearing, just like it does on MS first party retail sales since GP existed. There is another avenue that is quite popular to get the game "free". Steam is not a console, it exists as one of many easily available options on Windows. This has been said as a point for ROG Ally vs steam deck in many tech reviews "you can play your Gamepass library or Steam library on Ally but you're limited to steam on Deck"
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The Witcher 3 Sales Officially Cross 50 Million - IGN
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has officially sold over 50 million copies and the entire franchise has now reached 75 million units sold.www.ign.com
Hype vs sales. Cyberpunk had more hype IMO, but less sales.
More damning for me for Starfield is checking just now it's only 5th on Xbox most played. At least if the titles are ordered left to right and not random as I assume. Then it would be #1 fortnight, #2 COD, #3 Rainbow 6 Siege (this one seems odd unless theres some reason for a bump I'm unaware?) #4 Roblox and #5 Starfield. I presumed Starfield would be #1.
I swear even last month the expectations that this would easily clear BG3 on steam was a thing. even heard people say it would end up reaching CP2077 numbers.
I expected it to narrowly make the top 10 all time CCU, so slightly more than 700k. I expected that PC bros still hate Gamepass. Apparently not.I swear even last month the expectations that this would easily clear BG3 on steam was a thing. even heard people say it would end up reaching CP2077 numbers.
I don't think the review scores in Xbox store means much, all games in top 5 most played have score lower than 4.Word of mouth is certainly not at a point where its going to give sizeable boosts. 75% on Steam now, 3.6 on Xbox and late reviews are coming in lower.
For sure, what's intriguing is how little the standard launch added to the Early access peak.
It's definitely clearing Skyrim today, it won't come close to FO4 though.You were right, GP on XB/PC seem to have huge affect on Steam sales. Starfield will likely not even reach Skyrim peak let alone FO4.