Starfield Passes 1 Million Concurrent Users On Launch Day

After years of development and a big delay, Starfield finally landed on September 6 for all players. The launch day was a huge success, as Starfield surpassed 1 million concurrent players on all platforms, according to Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer. This would seemingly count players across Xbox Series X|S and PC, as well as the many other places you can stream the game via the cloud.

"Thanks to all the players who helped us reach this great milestone," Spencer said on social media, also extending congratulations to the developers at Bethesda Game Studios.

Starfield also became the "most-played next-gen exclusive game on Xbox," Spencer told Bloomberg. If Starfield hit 1 million concurrent players, then the game's total audience is no doubt quite larger since not everyone is playing at the same time.

Starfield is expected to become the most-played game ever from Bethesda Game Studios because the title is available on Xbox Game Pass for all subscribers.

The game is exclusive on console to the Xbox platform, and director Todd Howard recently discussed how Starfield is better off for skipping PlayStation. Starfield being exclusive to Xbox wasn't always the plan. According to Microsoft, Sony wanted to make Starfield a PlayStation exclusive, which prompted Microsoft's bid to buy ZeniMax for billions of dollars.

Starfield is officially available now for everyone, and the game is even playable on an Xbox One from 2013, a TV you might already own, or the phone in your pocket through cloud streaming. Now that the game is in the wild, players are making major discoveries, like how having sex every day is a good way to level up and how to print infinite money. It's also been discovered that Starfield has really good potato physics.