Bethesdan Starfield oli tarkoitus julkaista 11. marraskuuta 2022, mutta tietenkään moinen aie ei toteutunut. Viimeisimmän tiedon mukaan pelin pitäisi tulla ulos vuoden 2023 ensimmäisellä puoliskolla. Xbox-pomo Phil Spencer on perustellut päätöstä The Vergelle sanoen, että se nyt vain oli oikein lykätä julkaisua.
"We have experience shipping games too early. But in hindsight, when you look at a game like Starfield - which has taken so long and so much investment in new IP from the team - the decision to give the team the time to build the game that they feel they should be building is just the right thing to do."
Samalla Starfield on Bethesdan ensimmäinen peli Microsoftin siipien suojassa.
"Starfield and {Redfall}, which are our first big Xbox games with [Bethesda owner] ZeniMax coming into the team, I just wanted to make sure those teams felt they had the support they could get from Xbox. Maybe feel some of the benefit of being part of a larger organization that has other revenue streams and other things going on that could be helpful."
