The long-anticipated Bethesda RPGStarfieldhas finally been released and thereviews from playersare looking great so far. Featuring the publisher’s first new world in 25 years,Starfieldis centered around endless space exploration — quite a different direction than Fallout’s postapocalyptic America or The Elder Scroll’s fantasy landscapes. While the gamedoesn’t necessarily allow you to get lost in spacelike most players initially were looking forward to, it does contain plenty of excellent sci-fi standbys likemultiverse theories, a vast pool ofspaceships to pilot through galaxies, and some far-outfuturistic weaponry.
Starfieldlaunched on the Xbox Series X and PC (andXbox One, sort of), but hasn’t made its way to the PlayStation 5. While there are plenty ofgreat games on PS5, some Sony gamers are still eagerly waiting for their chance to jump into the world ofStarfield.
Will Starfield come to PS5?
Unfortunately,Starfieldwill not be seeing a release any time soon on either PS5 or PS4. It’s also very unlikely to get a Sony launch down the road. This is because Bethesda Softworks is a studio under ZeniMax Media, which wasacquired by Microsoft in 2021. While there was a lot and back and forth about future platform-exclusivity before the deal was official, once the ink dried, Microsoft announced that Bethesda titles would be exclusive to Xbox and PC going forward.
Of course, there was good reason for PS5 owners to keep hoping. Microsoft alsospent $68.7 billion to acquire Activision Blizzardand the future of Call of Duty exclusivity was in question before it was announced thatthe warfare franchise would be staying on Sony platformsdespite the new Xbox relationship. But it appears that that decision was made to keep the status quo for an ongoing series with a massive split player base.
New and future Bethesda titles, includingThe Elder Scrolls 6, will never get launched on Sony platforms.
