Skyrim has outperformed Starfield throughout 2024

According to SteamDb charts, more people are playing Skyrim than Starfield, and that’s unlikely to change without a major Starfield update.

[isarai]

It's the better game 🤷‍♂️

[JL2930]

It's the same game. Bethesda makes the most boring "AAA" games I've ever played.

[MrBaskerville]

In some ways, but Skyrim is different in some very important ways.

[MrDead]

I can't see how they can make Starfield an enjoyable game without a massive rebuild, better off waiting for Starfield 2. They need Flyable ships not just ones you pivot around a awful skybox, actual exploration, interesting missions that aren't just fast traveling to the next part, interesting companions, custom worlds not endless copy and past structures containing the same bad guys with the same loot in the same place, make the game look interesting as I've never seen anything so styleless and bland, make the cities you visit larger than a small village and one important thing that a space game needs, actual space travel.

[shinoff2183]

I'd settle fore more lore, and actual exploration. I didn't care about flying a space ship myself. I found it odd just was more concerned with my issues

[Tacoboto]

Same here with the flying, and for a long while in my playthrough (just about 60 hours currently) the difficulty on the dogfights felt so imbalanced, especially because of how they gatekept better ship parts from you with the ship levels (or whatever the tiers are called).

It's in a much better technical state now at least, and frame gen with Ultra Settings + DLAA at 1440p ultrawide on a 4070 hits over 100fps. It feels good to play. But I keep myself from finishing because I hope the expansion adds those better things. Exploration, better stories and side quests, vehicles. The update soon for city maps, better QOL that'll eventually come.

Until then (to the topic) Skyrim is still the better game and should be - a decades' worth of updates, fixes, expansions, and insane levels of mods created by or enjoyed by a decades' worth of players

[Obscure_Observer]

I´m glad that´s not the picture on Xbox!

Starfield continues to be Bethesda´s most popular game on Xbox throughout 2024 even without any expansion, dlc or official mod support!

And that´s what matter most for us, Xbox console gamers: more RPG on Xbox getting love from the community.

[Tapani]

Why on earth such an insignificant wish in life would matter to anyone?
Absolutely beyond me. I would hope and wish people have lives to attend to outside the screens rather than mull over on what brand is getting "love from the community". It's an entertainment related hobby, not a civil rights movement.

[anast]

You can't actually think this way, can you? Anyway, thanks, Confucius.

[Leeroyw]

But it's not getting the support. That's the point of the article. There's 4568 current players on steam. And I'd imagine way less on xbox. For reference 498,000 players on helldivers on pc right now alone.
But who am I kidding? You seem to have staked your flag in xbox land and won't see anything any other way.

[BlackOni]

I'd actually argue it's likely more on Xbox, cuz what other relative exclusives are they playing instead?

[Barlos]

Enjoy FF7 Rebirth on your Xbox won't you?

Home of RPGs my arse.

[Ironmike]

I enjoy games on both my consoles tbh

[Obscure_Observer]

"Enjoy FF7 Rebirth on your Xbox won't you?"

Enjoy your game, man.

No port begging on my part.

You see, I was casting spells like Quadra Magic and Summons like Knights of the Round long before you even know what that game is all about. So I´m not really missing anything.

"Home of RPGs my arse."

Not sure why you got so annoyed about actual facts. Xbox has actual in-house RPG studios, while Playstation has none.

Playstation rely on third party RPG support. Xbox rely on first party AND third party RPG support.

Like I said; facts. It is what it is.

[Futureshark]

What an obscure observation!!

[anast]

Obscure is a N4G treasure and should be protected at all costs.

[The Wood]

Da f#q

I guess some live breath and dream of xbox

[Kratos_Kart2007]

Oh, you're smoking the good stuff...

[NiceneCreeder]

That speaks more to the sad state of affairs on xbox than anything else

[Neonridr]

MS wins either way.

[jznrpg]

They didn’t win with Starfielda at all. They were hoping to milk it like Skyrim. They’re not even close

[Neonridr]

it's not like the game is just gonna disappear, they will have expansions and updates to hopefully improve the game.

look at No Man's Sky at launch compared to now. Not saying that this will be the case here, but it's not impossible for a game to become better as time goes on.

[Crows90]

Not really....it's not more sales dude...it's simply more people playing an already purchased game.

[ChasterMies]

No they don’t. These are player counts, not sales. If people are playing their old copy of Skyrim instead of buying Starfield, Microsoft loses.

[Neonridr]

it was a joke my man, it's not that deep.

[Terry_B]

How surprising.

[Profchaos]

Starwhoosit? You mean star wars right

[Father__Merrin]

Starfield would be better with just giant open world ie a full planet

[CrimsonWing69]

I will not lie, I was hyped for Starfield and really thought this was going to be the point where Xbox finally got their sh*t together… 5 hours in I was bored to tears and haven’t gone back. I honestly don’t know how some of you were able to get to the end.

[TheColbertinator]

Obviously. Skyrim is a rich tapestry of captivating quests and mysteries.

Starfield is a menu for a menu for a menu for a filling yet unsatisfying meal. I do enjoy pirating and ship building but the wonders are not there and I can find richer experiences elsewhere.

[Destiny1080]

there's a hidden 100% abandonment trophy

we hit 80% after two weeks and currently at 97%

[GoodGuy09]

Well skyrim is a legend of a game after all.

[Armaggedon]

Here we go again. There are games that outperformed BG3, are they better games though? Just let people play what they want. No need to investigate so much into this. Suicide squad is a game people should be worried about

[thesoftware730]

"Outperformed throughout 2024"

WTF? So much smear, hyperbole, clock bait headlines...we are literally still in Feb, not even a full 2 months into 2024, we still got 10 months and a day.

Wow, when will they stop comparing these two games..it's so redundant now. I'm not talking about the 100th comparison, that's fine...I'm talking about the 10000000th comparison. How long do you track which game did better from a dev, and make headlines about it so frequently...I don't see this with any other company.

Straight up agenda, with overdone headlines.

[anast]

BG3 is sitting at 600k users. That is insane.

[Valkyrye]

even a site dedicated to only Starfield knows it's just average

[Lionsguard]

I honestly can't believe they wasted the last 10+ years on this crap instead of Elder Scrolls 6. This is the worst timeline.

[anast]

25 years according to Howard.

[boing1]

That's what happens when gameplay feels like work.

[gold_drake]

people like it more ha.
its also alot better imo.

[anast]

One took 25 years to develop the other didn't.

[Scissorman]

Good game outperforms mediocre game. News at 11.

[anast]

Both are flat and boring, but Starfield won't let you experience the boring for yourself.

[Ironmike]

U do realise previous ps5 exclusives have appeared on xbox sifu stray death stranding u do also realise that the days of console exclusivity are coming to end end on both consoles they can't recoup theimonney of one console cos of massive budgets on new games and that's also being reported on both sides

[stonecold3]

death stranding not on xbox .

[OneLove]

Lmfao to be fair it's hard to top skyrim💀