Bethesda’s epic Space-RPG Starfield came out on the Xbox Series X|S and the PC platform back in September 2023 and since early 2024, there have been speculations regarding the game’s release on the Playstation 5. And in light of Microsoft’s recent Multi-platform strategy that sees the publisher releasing several of it’s First-Party titles on it’s rival platform as well as on other consoles, chances of Starfield being one of it’s multi-platform release that’s set to arrive on the Playstation 5 at some point certainly seems possible.
And in a recent interview with IGN’s former Director of Video Content Strategy, Destin Legarie, Microsoft’s gaming boss Phil Spencer was directly asked whether he could confirm whether Starfield would continue to remain exclusive for the Xbox platform for the time being, and in reply, he said “No”. This means he has clearly suggested that the possibility of the game launching on the PS5 at some future point is still viable.
“There’s no specific game… this kind of goes back to my red line answer. There’s no reason for me to put a ring fence around any game and say this game will not go to a place where it would find players, where it would have business success for us. What we find is we’re able to drive a better business that allows us to invest in great game lineup, like you saw. And that’s our strategy. Our strategy is to allow our games to be available, Game Pass is an important component of playing the games on our platform. But to keep games off of other platforms, that’s not a path for us. It doesn’t work for us. What we’re doing now, we think really enables us to build the best platform for the world’s best games.
“The world’s biggest games are available in multiple places. And more and more creators are asking us, ‘how do we stay connected when our game might be playable in all these different places?’ And we want Xbox to be absolutely the platform that enables that.
“We think that makes us unique. Most of the other platforms out there are single platform on single device. Whether that’s PC, whether that’s mobile, whether it’s a console. And we want Xbox to be a platform that enables creators across any screen that people want to play on.”
Spencer’s words definitely seems encouraging and promising to anyone who’s looking forward to play Starfield on the PS5 and maybe on other consoles too.
