Those who pre-order the Premium Edition will get access on September 1, though. Starfield will be released for PC and Xbox Series X/S on September 6. As games get bigger with more detail, it's clear that our gaming platforms will be able to accommodate fewer and fewer games on their SSDs going forward.Īt least you can play the game via Xbox Cloud Gaming if none of your platforms can accommodate that file size. This year alone, we've seen Star Wars Jedi: Survivor take up over 130 GB of space on consoles, while Baldur's Gate 3 clocks in at 125.14 GB currently. It also follows a recent trend of even single-player taking up gigantic chunks of your game system's memory. This 110+ GB file size across all platforms for Starfield demonstrates just how big Bethesda's upcoming sci-fi RPG will be. It's now very understandable why Microsoft is launching a 1 TB version of the Xbox Series S around Starfield still, the game will even take over a tenth of that system's memory if players aren't expanding it at all. That size is only slightly smaller on the console, with the Xbox Store showing me that the game will take up 117.07 GB on my Xbox Series X. On Steam, Bethesda recommends that players have 125 GB of space for the game, but Microsoft's own launcher shows an even bigger PC install size of 139.84 GB for Starfield. As a result, we've learned just how massive the game is. The file sizes for Starfield finally appeared across some of the storefronts it's available on now that it's available to preload.

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2: Heart of Chornobyl: release date predictions, trailers, gameplay The Outer Worlds 2 could dodge Starfield’s biggest flaw by staying small Both will be available on Game Pass day one, so you’ll get your money’s worth fast if you were planning on buying one or both of those later this year. However, Xbox has some major releases like Starfieldand Forza Motorsport on the horizon. The service has struggled to produce major hits, with first-party games like Redfall disappointing fans. If you don’t already have Game Pass, it’s a mixed time to hop in. You’ll still have to pay $11 to get your first month. All cross-platform games (PS5, Xbox Series X, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC)īaldur’s Gate 3 drops Series S splitscreen support to release on Xbox in 2023įor those just looking to get the console version of Game Pass, the deal unfortunately doesn’t apply.

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