People must be really into Starfield, at least according to the YouTube view count. Currently, Starfield’s Official Teaser Trailer is sitting at 9.2 million views on Bethesda’s YouTube account (the Xbox trailer is just over 4.6 million views). That said, a helpful Reddit post has been keeping track and it confirmed the trailer achieved 7.4 million views less than a week after its initial reveal at E3.
Keep in mind, those numbers aren’t counting the 2.3 million people who watched the joint Xbox/Bethesda livestream.
A lot of publishers use trailer views as an indicator of interest, and as Starfield closes in on 10 million views, Bethesda must be thinking they have a potential blockbuster on their hands. It sort of makes the Skyrim comparisons that Todd Howard has been throwing around seem less aspirational and more expectation.
Most of what we know about Starfield comes from that E3 trailer and a few interviews that Howard did after the fact. In an interview with The Washington Post, Howard confirmed that Starfield will feel like “Skyrim in space,” but it’ll also answer some deep philosophical questions like “are we alone?” and “what are the origins of space and time?”
In an interview with The Telegraph, Howard confirmed that Starfield won’t be like Star Wars or Star Trek; “It’s kind of its own thing.” That includes a unique “NASA-Punk” aesthetic and “more hardcore RPG” elements than even Bethesda’s previous games.
The trailer itself was thought to be just the standard hype-making cinematic trailer that most video game publishers produce ahead of a big blockbuster title, but it turns out that Starfield’s teaser trailer wasn’t pre-rendered. Everything we saw was made in Creation Engine 2, according to Bethesda senior lighting artist Keith Beltramini, who confirmed working on the trailer without using any cinematic tools.
Starfield arrives on November 11, 2022.
