According to a former dev, Starfield 2 won’t ever come out
, by Thibaut
Three years after its launch, it's now clear that Starfield hasn't made much of an impression. Bethesda Game Studios and XBOX have never released sales figures, so a sequel seems unlikely at this point.
In an interview with FRVR, Kurt Kuhlmann, the former lead systems designer on Starfield, expressed serious doubts about a possible release of Starfield 2.
"I’d be very surprised if there were a sequel. “I don’t think Starfield was anywhere near successful enough to do a Starfield 2. It’s, in a way, too bad, because I think with the lessons learned on Starfield, a Starfield 2 could have been much closer to the game that Todd [Howard] had [in mind]. You can envision that game, you can imagine that game. That’s not quite what Starfield really is.
[...] Even with the size of the team we had for Starfield, it wasn’t enough to create the amount of content that the game’s core concept required. We needed a lot more."
Kuhlmann acknowledges, for example, that the outpost-building feature is an idea that didn’t quite live up to expectations. Building these structures has no impact on the story and is therefore not very interesting.
Finally, since XBOX now wants to focus on successful franchises like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, it would be very surprising to see the announcement of a new Starfield.
Source: frvr.com