Starfield surpasses 12 million players as Phil Spencer says we’ll be playing for ‘many, many years’

Starfield has seen massive success since it launched just a few months ago. In October, Microsoft announced that the game had surpassed 11 million players, and now Phil Spencer has revealed that the title has over 12 million. Understandably, he’s very optimistic about the game’s future.

During a recent panel interview at CCXP in São Paulo, Brazil, Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer revealed that Starfield has amassed a whopping 12 million players since its launch and stated that it “still sits in the top 10 most-played games” from the studio. Additionally, when asked by the interviewer and host Mari Palma on whether he believes Starfield will be as successful and long-running as Skyrim, he responded by saying that the team’s goal is to give people “who love space and space exploration that same opportunity,” that he has “a ton of confidence that for many, many years, Starfield will be sitting very high.”