Bethesda's Starfield on next-generation gameplay

• by Matt Morrison
• – on [03/07/206] 3 July 2018
• in the Game News

A new report suggests Bethesda Starfield will be able to run on the current generation of game consoles. This seems at odds with the claims of Todd Howard – director and executive producer of Starfield – that the design team behind the long-awaited game is dedicated to " the next generation "two gaming experiences and electronic equipment.

Starfield is currently one of the most anticipated video games in the world, marking the first new franchise of Bethesda Game Studios for nearly 25 years. Little is known about gameplay or history, beyond the fact that it's a solo game and a sci-fi scenario. Bethesda released the first trailer of Starfield at E3 2018, but the trailer left the fans more questions than answers

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Todd Howard tried to answer some of these questions, in an interview with Eurogamer . Asked what players could expect from Starfield Howard quickly emphasized Bethesda's dedication to developing unique, high-quality games while avoiding direct comparisons The Elder Scrolls or ] Fallout

"It's different, but if you sit down and play, you recognize it as something we did, it contains our DNA, it has things we like . "

says that the finished game would have "a lot of new systems that we've been thinking about for a while and that really fit that kind of game ." After confirming again that Starfield will not be a multiplayer game, Howard continued to talk about the technical specifications of the game.

"What systems we put on – what is the hardware configuration – is again We push it, we think very, very far in the future, so we build something that will handle the next generation hardware. That's what we're relying on right now, that's We think, but that does not mean that it would not exist on current systems. ""

This statement seems contradictory, given the nature of the gaming console hardware Neither Sony nor Microsoft has made firm statements as to when the public can wait for them to release the next generation of consoles, although a report suggests that the next PlayStation system will be available in at least three years. because of the fact Since the current generation of consoles is almost five years old, it seems highly unlikely that Starfield would be compatible with PlayStation 4 or Xbox One while simultaneously enjoying all the features offered by the new generation of gaming consoles.

On the other hand, the hardware of the console has changed considerably since the beginning of the video game market for the home. With iterative consoles like the PS4 Pro and Xbox One X allowing console players to update their system to adapt to new game hardware developments in the same way that PCs improve their systems, it is quite possible that the current generation of iterative systems able to run Starfield without problem, but at the cost of a slight improvement.

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Sources: Eurogamer

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