Xbox’s bold claim: Starfield ‘has the fewest bugs of any Bethesda game’
I have my doubts, but you have to respect the bravery of that statement.
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Matt Booty, Head of Xbox Game Studios, has stated that as things currently stand, Bethesda’s massive upcoming sci-fi RPG Starfield has “the fewest bugs of any Bethesda game.”
“We have an awful lot of people internally playing [Starfield]. Working with Todd and the team, I see bug counts,” Booty explained on arecent Giant Bomb at Nite livestream. “You know, [I’ll] just say that, just by the numbers, if it shipped today, this would have the fewest bugs in any game Bethesda’s ever shipped.”
It’s an incredibly bold claim to make when you consider Bethesda’s track record. While the studio’s games are widely loved by millions of gamers, theydohave a reputation for being glitchy and unstable, especially at launch. A lot of the time, the bugs are pretty hilarious and relatively harmless (flying Skyrim horses). Sometimes, though, they significantly affect performance and are a real pain to deal with (Fallout 4’s Boston area tanks your FPS).
Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty says if Starfield shipped today it’d have the fewest bugs of any Bethesda game that’s ever shipped pic.twitter.com/nLRQfan1pyJune 12, 2023
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I don’t doubt that Microsoft and Bethesda have an army of quality assurance testers that are hard at work discovering and logging problems withStarfield. If I’ve learned anything from being a longtime Destiny 2 fan, though, it’s that for every bug squashed before launch, there always seems to be two more unearthed by players after launch.
Of course, it’s very possible that Starfield will launch as smoothly as Booty says it will. Given that I routinely experience a fair amount of bugs in my Skyrim and Fallout 4 playthroughs (and that’swithbugfix mods), though, I definitely have my doubts.
Still, you can’t help but respect the bravery of Booty’s statement, as he’s clearly aware of how gamers perceive Bethesda’s games. Hopefully his comments don’t come back to haunt him once the game arrives.
Starfield looks like it’s going to be one of thebest Xbox gamesof all time, offering RPG fans an experience that they’ll be playing for years to come.Starfield preordersare live and available for Xbox and PC, as areStarfield-themed Xbox controllers and headsets.
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Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he’s been an avid fan since childhood. He’s been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you’ll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he’s not writing or gaming, there’s a good chance he’s either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once.Follow him on X(Twitter).
