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on January 19, 2026
Games industry insider Jeff Grubb confirmed on his podcast (via PushSquare ) that Microsoft is indeed still planning some sort of event to outline its plans for Bethesda. Around the 27:45 mark when speaking about E3, Grubb stated, " Microsoft's E3 and Bethesda's E3 could actually still be separate, they're planning their stuff right now, and they're planning it as two separate companies. " Later in the podcast, Grubb is asked if he thinks Microsoft will make some sort of Bethesda-related announcement following the finalization of the deal, to which he repl
Bethesda has made a promise to players claiming that its sci-fi RPG Starfield , currently in development, will be worth the long wait. That’s probably enough to inspire the fan community a little bit, especially considering that pretty much nothing specific has been revealed about the game so
At this point, it’s hard to know exactly how Bethesda plans to monetize Starfield , but, given their recent track record, it may be time to start worrying. Fallout 76 , as well as its predecessor's post-launch implementation of the Creation Club, unabashedly pushed the sale of in-game currencies and micro-DLC, and it’s unlikely that the publisher will be willing to forego these unfavorable monetization practices for the sake of their new property. This could also cause a bit of a delay should designers choose to push back against certain development mandates regarding recurrent spending options in Starfie
Starfield was announced at E3 2018, and since then, next to nothing has been revealed about the game. The few scraps of information that Bethesda has made public since - like the fact that Starfield will be an exclusively single-player game - have come very recently. At its reveal, Bethesda said that there was still a long wait in store for Starfield, and there are no hints as to when that wait will be over yet. All that’s known on the subject is that starfield strategy|https://starfieldgalaxy.Com/ is expected to launch before the long-awaited Elder Scrolls
This statement seems contradictory, given the nature of gaming console hardware. Neither Sony nor Microsoft has made firm statements regarding when the public can expect them to release the next generation of consoles, though one report suggests the next PlayStation system is at least three years away . Given that the current generation of consoles are nearly five years old, it seems highly unlikely that Starfield might be compatible with both the PlayStation 4 or Xbox One while simultaneously taking advantage of all the features offered by the next generation of gaming conso
The damages of the COVID-19 pandemic could affect the industry for years, an anonymous publisher told Fanbyte 's Imran Khan , who retweeted his reporting on April 8 in relation to Bethesda's Deathloop being delayed to September 14. " The truth is, players aren’t going to get every video game we - we, as in every developer - want to put out this year ," the designer of an unspecified game was quoted as saying. " That sucks, but it’s the truth. We don’t want to put out a mess, we want to put out the best games we can, and we’re moving at three-quarters speed on average days and way less on bad days. " Twitter news sleuth IdleSloth84 claims that this is may be in reference to Starfield , but no official confirmation of a "delay" for the game with no confirmed release date has been provided at publication t
Todd Howard attempted to answer some of these questions, in an interview with Eurogamer . When asked about what gamers could expect from Starfield , Howard was quick to emphasize Bethesda's devotion to developing unique, high-quality games, while avoiding direct comparisons to either The Elder Scrolls or Fallo
Bethesda's secretive space RPG Starfield is almost certainly going to miss 2021, as suggested by recent reporting about the state of the games industry. The COVID-19 pandemic is said to be affecting the industry so badly that the 2020 fiscal year was effectively " lost " in terms of development schedules, and publishers are learning to keep target release dates under wr
"What systems we put it out on - what's the hardware requirements - is still to be determined. We're pushing it; we're thinking very, very far in future so we're building something that will handle next-generation hardware. That's what we're building on right now, that's where our mind is, but that doesn't mean it wouldn't exist on the current systems as wel
On the other hand, console hardware has changed considerably since the early days of the home video gaming market. With iterative consoles like the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X now allowing console gamers to upgrade their system to accommodate new developments in gaming hardware in the same way that PC gamers upgrade their systems, it is entirely possible that the current generation of iterative systems will be able to run Starfield without issue, albeit at the cost of a slight upgr