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"Every QA Person" Working on Starfield — June 11, 2023

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In an interview with Giant Bomb, Phil Spencer stated that according to Matt Booty, the head of Xbox Game Studios, "every QA person in our entire company playing Starfield right now." Whether this means just the Xbox division or Microsoft as a whole is unclear. The QA testers are trying to help tackle as many bugs and help improve the game's quality as much as possible before launch. Matt Booty, who also took part in the interview, supported the statement and said his teams were working very hard with Bethesda on it. He expanded upon the claim by saying that Starfield will have "the fewest bugs that any game Bethesda has ever shipped" if it were to ship even today.

The lengthy interview touched on many topics related to Xbox. Other notable remarks specifically related to Starfield from the interview include:

  • The primary change from Bethesda's previous status after it was acquired is their increased access to the Advanced Technology Group, in charge of fine tuning performance for the Xbox.
  • The strategy for Game Pass takes more in consideration in selling Game Pass subscriptions and Xbox consoles over the sales lost by having the game available cheaply through a subscription service. It was expanded upon that this was similar to the consideration to make a game exclusive to Xbox or not in previous generations.
  • They expect that Starfield will be the biggest game launch Bethesda has ever done in terms of players.
  • They believe that Starfield and Forza will fill out a good portion of their playerbase's gaming time for the remainder of 2023.
  • They claim that the decision for the game to be locked to thirty frames per second on the console came down to Bethesda's artistic preferences. As a brand Xbox does not want to force specific specs for resolution and frame rate upon their developers.
  • Phil Spencer believes the Starfield presentation is the biggest deep dive onto a single game they've ever done.

You can see the full interview here.

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