Starfield coming to PS5 in April, Bethesda and Microsoft confirm

Bethesda Game Studios' space RPG comes to PlayStation alongside a major update

After months of speculation, leaks, and more than two years of Xbox console exclusivity, Bethesda Game Studios is bringing its 2023 sci-fi role-playing game Starfield to PlayStation 5. Starfield's PS5 version will be released on April 7, alongside the "biggest update to the game since launch," Bethesda Softworks announced Tuesday.

The PS5 release of Starfield will take advantage of the PlayStation console's distinctive features. The game will support the DualSense controller's light bar, adaptive triggers, and touch pad. On PlayStation 5 Pro consoles, Starfield will feature two graphics options: a Pro Performance Mode to prioritize a higher-target frame rate or Pro Visual Mode.

Starfield's leap to PS5 signals a shift for Bethesda, which became a first-party Xbox studio in 2021. In a 2020 interview with Kotaku, before Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda was finalized, then head of Xbox Phil Spencer said the company did not need to put The Elder Scrolls 6 on PlayStation to recoup that investment, suggesting games developed and published by Bethesda would be Xbox console exclusives. Starfield's release bore that out, as did the 2024 release of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (which is also now on PS5). But in a 2025 interview with Save State Plus, Spencer would not rule out that Starfield could come to PS5.

The base edition of Starfield’s PS5 version will cost $49.99, the same price as the Xbox Series X and Windows PC versions of the game going forward. A Premium Edition release for PS5 will also be available, both digitally and physically.

Bethesda Game Studios will release two major content updates for Starfield on April 7: new story DLC expansion Terran Armada and a free major update called Free Lanes. You can read more about those additions to Starfield in our preview of the update.

Starfield launched in September 2023, to mostly positive reviews. On review aggregation site OpenCritic, Starfield has a top critic average score of 85. But we were cooler on the game than other outlets, writing in our review that "Bethesda’s ambition has exceeded its craft" with Starfield.

"There is so much to do and so many people to meet across the cosmos, on new worlds to which humans have escaped after fleeing a blighted Earth," Polygon reviewer Nicole Carpenter wrote at the time. "For all of this vastness, though, Starfield often feels sterile, and it buries its best moments beneath so much tedium."