Syed Imran Haider 
Microsoft is all set to bank on Starfield – the upcoming science fiction and action RPG to be the next significant app for the Xbox platform. The company is also in a scenario where one of its major releases and a potential participant are in a notable setback for Microsoft.
The industry expects to reveal what is worthwhile to be familiar with the hype around Starfield and why the platform can use the game against Microsoft in its $68b bid to acquire Activision Blizzard.
Possible Game-Changer Scenario
Starfield is a spiritual follow-up to 2011’s best-selling game – The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Todd Howard, the director of the said game, said Skyrim in space would be the best word to describe Starfield. It is for sure that nobody could devalue its general significance to gaming.
While more than 30 million users have purchased Skyrim up to date, it is accessible on all modern consoles. Starfield is likely to follow Skyrim. The game is an open-minded and sprawling RPG that will allow players to explore a giant gaming realm while making friends or rivals they want.
The science fiction game, Starfield will work in the universe and let players play the character of a 24-century space explorer. The game happens in the Settled Systems, which spreads for fifty light years far from Sol after an adventurer explores space extrapolating from the 21st-century technologies.
Microsoft acquired ZeniMax – the parent company of the Xbox network, in 2020. Starfield is the second significant project of Bethesda Game Studios, which joined the Xbox network following Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax.
The game will be the firm’s internally-developed IP in over 25 years. Bethesda Game Studio originally announced the launch of Starfield in 2018, making it a re-revealed of the Xbox lineup and the first significant name from the studio and Xbox exclusive.
Starfield could be a game-changer scenario for the Xbox network in 2023 if it continues to be a decent game at the time of release. Experts consider it a substantial successor to a popular game as well as the first PRGs of the 9th generation of gaming consoles.
Wider suggestions
The new game is a provocative plank in Microsoft’s continuing combat with the FTC. The game will be available through the digital storefront Steam of Valve Software, which least nominally competes with the Microsoft Store.
Rivals have been using Microsoft’s plans for Starfield as a rhetorical tool for its acquisition of Activision Blizzard. On the other hand, Bethesda wanted to make the game cross-platform in 2018, though Xbox Game studio made it a part of its platform and announced it as Xbox exclusive.
Xbox’s decision has become a sticking point in its dealings with American and European trade organizations. Regulators argue if Microsoft wanted to make the intended move with Starfield, nothing was stopping it from doing that with upcoming blockbusters like Call of Duty game. While the company has not revealed a confirmed release date of Starfield, experts say it will ship for Xbox and Windows PCs at the same time in the first six months of 2023.
