Starfield finally made its (somewhat inevitable) arrival on PS5 last week, alongside the launch of its Free Lanes update and the Terran Armada DLC expansion, and in its first week on PlayStation, according to a new report from Alinea Analytics, the game has managed to sell 140K copies. Not a bad start when you look at it on the surface, but Alinea's report seemingly proves that Starfield is mid.
Or at least its PS5 launch sales are, compared to other Xbox Game Studios-published games that have arrived on PS5 within the last six months. Compared to The Outer Worlds 2, Avowed, Ninja Gaiden 4, Age of Empires IV, Microsoft Flight Sim 2024, and South of Midnight, the once long-awaited space RPG from Bethesda landed squarely in the middle.
Of course, it's worth pointing out that it didn't fall too far behind The Outer Worlds 2 in third place, and that it far surpasses Avowed in fifth place. It's also worth noting, as Alinea Analytics does, that this is a list of Xbox-published games, not including Call of Duty. Nonetheless, Starfield on PS5, as Alinea Analytics describes, is off to "a middling start."
But it's not all mediocre news for Starfield on PS5. The report does add that it is the fastest-selling title on this list when it comes to hitting major sales milestones within its first week on the platform. The next-closest title was Ninja Gaiden 4, with barely 100K copies sold within the same time period, and the drop-off after that shows an even wider gap.
That said, it still has a long ways to go to catch up to Xbox's top-sellers on PS5 like Forza Horizon 5, which the report claims has surpassed 5.7 million copies sold on PlayStation. Meanwhile, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle's sales on PS5 are reportedly "on par" with the sales of the Xbox version which also means it has outsold its sales numbers on Steam. Gears of War: Reloaded, for its part, has most of its 1 million copies sold across all platforms coming from PlayStation players, with "70%" of all its sales being to PS5 players, according to the report.
As for who on PS5 is jumping into Starfield right away, it is unsurprisingly all of the PlayStation players who already liked Bethesda games. Most have already played either Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - Remastered, or all of them. There's also expected overlap between The Outer Worlds 2 players and Starfield players on PS5, and another not-surprising, but non-Bethesda entry is the overlap between No Man's Sky players and those who checked out Starfield during its PS5 arrival.
Lastly, it's also worth pointing out that while the firm describes this launch as "middling," signs point to the game slowly but surely, ticking its sales numbers on PS5 up beyond the rest of the six games it is being compared to in the report.
We'll see what the future holds for the game. In the meantime, if you want to learn more about the game's recent expansion and Free Lanes update, you can check out our interview with Tim Lamb, lead creative producer at Bethesda, on all of the recent changes made to the game.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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