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Bethesda might be prepping a Starfield release on the Nintendo Switch 2, based on a leaked overseas games rating list. The spacefaring game made its solution to the PlayStation 5 recently, following nearly two years of exclusivity on PC and Xbox. That release arrived together with recent free and paid DLC, bringing the biggest amount of added content since launch. Bethesda can consider the PS5 edition successful, with purported sales figures pointing to upwards of over 140,000 units sold. Unfortunately, though, it’s not all rainbows and daisies with some PS5 players reporting on Reddit that the sport was bug-ridden and virtually unplayable. Some claimed that it couldn’t run beyond 30 FPS on even the bottom settings, and lots of reports of the sport always crashing on either the PS5 base or Pro consoles have players asking for refunds.
“I’m getting crashes every two minutes,” one player admits. “Tried the whole lot. Deleted saves. Tried performance 30 and 60 FPS. Deleted the sport and redownloaded it. And it’s still happening. Every other game is working superb, and I never had any crashes. It’s just Starfield. This isn’t acceptable. They need to refund us!”
– ShogunRaw, Reddit
Base PS5 crashing getting out of hand, its unplayable
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Bethesda has a mixed record with regards to post-launch support (anyone remember the last time Oblivion Remastered got an update to repair bugs carried over from the unique?), so it’s difficult to say if the newly launched PS5 version will get the support it needs. Meanwhile, a variety of games have been listed on the Taiwanese Game Rating Board (via KitGuru), including a Nintendo Switch 2 version of Starfield, but given this latest console release, there are significant doubts it should make it to release. In any case, the PS5 Pro is some of the powerful consoles on the planet, and if Bethesda cannot get the sport to run properly on it, how will the studio manage a version for what is actually a system based on mobile technology?
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