Overview
- Circana said Starfield led U.S. full-game dollar sales for the week ending April 11, its first weekly No. 1 since September 2, 2023.
- The return followed the PlayStation 5 launch alongside the Free Lanes update and the Terran Armada add-on, which brought new quests, weapons, a vehicle, and more ships.
- Mat Piscatella told Kotaku this was Starfield’s fourth-strongest U.S. sales week since release, with PS5 accounting for 95% of new full-game purchases.
- Players and outlets flagged frequent crashes and stability issues on PS5, and Bethesda pushed hotfixes that some reviewers called disappointing.
- Analysts are split on the outlook, with Alinea pegging about 140,000 PS5 copies sold that week and suggesting the game may have only broken even, while a Switch 2 version remains a rumor.