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Do you think Starfield is 2021 game?
- Thread starter rrc1594
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Pretty crazy to buy a partial exclusivity deal with a game that hadn't even entered development huh?
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I doubt MS wants to show anything till the deal is done, so I don't think it will be at TGA
knowing sony was talking with bethesda about a potential moneyhat makes me think the game isn't that far off. my guess is late 2021/early 2022.
Todd literally said he wants the showcase to be as close to release as possible like with Fallout 4 and Fallout 76
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the deal is technically not finalized but i doubt that would stop MS/bethesda from announcing new games, specially since the game could just be published under the bethesda name.
I understand that. But it's just one of those things that I'm not going to believe until I see it. Plus, we're kinda still in a pandemic which has slowed a lot of development. Why get my hopes up? Now that Elder Scrolls and Fallout do nothing but disappoint me, Starfield is pretty much the only BGS game I'm looking forward to.
I think it's definitely coming next year. It'll be 5 years in development by that point according to Todd's interview
It would be interesting if it is announced as xbox exclusive before the deal is finalised, my understanding is the deal is expected to complete mid 2021 and I dont believe Microsoft can officially assert any influence until then? Though I may be mistaken as I do not know the US laws regarding this.
This is going to sound like "my uncle works at Nintendo" story but I bought a new puppy in June and when I was visiting they asked if I had a name in mind for him once I confirmed I wanted him so they could start calling him by it so he would get used to it. The lady joked that it couldn't be worse than the names of all their sheep because her husband works for Bethesda so they are all named from characters in Skyrim and stuff like that.
Anyway as soon as she said that I was like wow that's cool and he was there so I jokingly said you better get back to work then to get ES6 done. He said "Got to get Starfield out next year first so might be waiting a while". I had completely forgot about Starfield so was just like oh yeah forgot you were making that. That's everything I got to say on that, obviously with Covid and everything else going on this year then maybe things have changed but that's what was said.
Anyway as soon as she said that I was like wow that's cool and he was there so I jokingly said you better get back to work then to get ES6 done. He said "Got to get Starfield out next year first so might be waiting a while". I had completely forgot about Starfield so was just like oh yeah forgot you were making that. That's everything I got to say on that, obviously with Covid and everything else going on this year then maybe things have changed but that's what was said.
This.
They cold afford only talk about fallout 4 5 months before release, just the name already implies so much about the game. They even talked about only the new things from Fallout 4 in that first presentation, like the building aspects, etc.
Starfield we literally know anything about, or very close to it. So the setting, universe, rules, gameplay, etc al of that needs to be fleshed out. I don't think its a 2021 game.
Or maybe we will have a media blitz starting next year first half, but I would not bet on it.
And Skyrim was revealed less than a year before release, and the first in-engine footage was what 7 months prior to release on 11/11/11?
And Fallout 76 was revealed 6 months before release in Nov 2018.
And Fallout 3 was revealed E3 2007, but first gameplay not shown until E3 2008, 5 months before launch.
Bethesda plays it close to the chest. Very possible we will see the game for the first time less than 6 months before release.
They might release a trailer this year at TGAs like they did with Skyrim and they'll have a year to market it. Assuming Xbox won't hold another digital conference in October/November, which is a possibility.
Starfield is 2022/2023 (Todd answered 'well its a game..in development' to larry in recent intreview. Now half of that is because Todd Howard is a piece of trash, but the other half is cos its super early).
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Todd has gone on record multiple times saying he only wants to show things when they're ready, and he wants the reveal - - > release time gap to be as short as possible. He's said he'd make it days short if he was allowed =P
The Starfield and TES6 announcements were emergency mitigations he didn't want to make. I fully expect 2021 to be the target year, but maybe a delay into Q1 2022.
The more I think about it, the more I think it's coming next year. It's been in development for 4 1/2 to 5 years already and it just seems unlikely that they're going to hold on to this game for almost 7 years before they release it.
I feel like based on the information we have it's almost impossible to make much of a prediction.
But in service of the thread, I'll say Q1 '22.
But in service of the thread, I'll say Q1 '22.
That's not how BGS operates. They announce games when development is winding down and release them as is, even if they might benefit from being pushed back.
I think we get a ton of marketing for it in 2021 and it has a chance of coming out in the holiday window, but I think 2022 is also a strong possibility. I'm not gonna be surprised either way. 2023 would be super disappointing, I refuse to believe that's a possibility.
I googled the guy and he's worked there for a long time and due to his position as well he would defs know any target launch dates etc. If they can still hit them with Covid and all that going on is a different matter, he was working from home at the time I got my puppy so I imagine others would be too within the company.
If it is a 2021 game, then Microsoft could have an incredible, monstrous 2021 for their 1st-party:
- Halo Infinite
- Psychonauts 2
- The Outer Worlds final DLC expansion
- Xbox release of Flight Simulator
- Starfield
- Grounded's full release
- Possibly Deathloop and Ghostwire: Tokyo, if the timed exclusivity for those games is only 6 months
