Not even a full month has passed since Todd Howard took to Bethesda’s E3 stage where he announced Starfield. Yet, the need to know more is almost agonizing. It’s Bethesda Game Studios’ first original project in 25 years. How could fans not overflow with excitement" However, considering full time production didn’t begin until after Fallout 4, Starfield is still years away. Thus, the cycle of long bouts of quiet and vague teases shall commence. Thankfully, Howard kicks off this long period of time with a few vague teases that deserve acknowledgement. Starfield is indeed a next gen title and Bethesda plans on taking full advantage of it.
Talking to Eurogamer at Barcelona’s Gamelab conference, Howard revealed what next generation hardware means for Starfield’s development. “That to us means two things. It does mean hardware and it does mean software on our side, and it also means gameplay – what does the next generation of epic single-player RPGs feel like to us"
“What systems we put it out on – what’s the hardware requirements – is still to be determined. We’re pushing it; we’re thinking very, very far in future so we’re building something that will handle next-generation hardware. That’s what we’re building on right now, that’s where our mind is, but that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t exist on the current systems as well.”

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