Starfield arrives in a month and prepares its release well in advance. Excellent news for players who are not very well equipped.
Earlier this year, there was Hogwarts Legacy. Then, before summer, Zelda Tears of The Kingdom. In a short month, there will finally be Starfield, the other extremely anticipated big game of 2023. So yes, the year is not lacking in interesting video game releases, but among them, some are much more watched than others. others.
Starfield is a story of excess. An Xbox and PC exclusive game, which has been making RPG and sci-fi fans salivate since its announcement. It must be said that for the time, Bethesda continues to play us by increasing the pressure. With each piece of news, Starfield raises the bar ever higher. A thousand planets that can be visited, encounters everywhere, gigantic cities, the possibility of recruiting your crew, creating a ship or even land bases…
Not to mention the purely RPG elements such as statistics, traits, skills or even the choices and dialogues at each corner of the space. Yes, Starfield is shaping up to be daunting, but Bethesda has it all planned out this time around and pulled out all the stops so players can be ready for launch.
A big game that will hurt your SSDs
With such proposals, excessive ambition and rather solid recommended PC characteristics, Starfield has something to give our SSDs a cold sweat. Yes, the game will be rather big and you will have to make room. In total, Starfield takes up no less than 125 GB of space on PC and Xbox Series.
It’s massive, yes, but we are still far from the 200 GB (approximately) requested for Warzone 2 and Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (downloaded as a pack), or the 130 GB for Star Wars Jedi Survivor.
On average anyway, current AAAs are around 100 GB and sometimes for not much. So when Starfield revealed to us what it intended to unpack when it was released, we expected much worse than that.
But in the end, it seems that Bethesda has managed to pack an entire galaxy into 125 GB, which is already not bad. But as a bonus, the firm has everything planned and players can all be on the job for the launch.
Starfield preload date on PC and Xbox Series
So this is ultimately very good news for gamers and their SSDs. if it will certainly be necessary to make room for the installation, there is no doubt that the players are already prepared. On the other hand, it is the small connections that will once again be very expensive. Not everyone has a fiber connection or strong enough to download that much data quickly. Fortunately, Bethesda has thought of everything since the preload will be open in advance. You can in fact preload Starfield from August 9th.
Yes in a few days, directly from online stores. Like on Steam or the Microsoft Store (for the PC version of course).
As a reminder, Starfield will be released on September 6, 2023. on PC and Xbox Series.