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Starfield runs at 30fps on consoles for ‘consistency.’
Starfield, the hotly anticipated sci-fi RPG from Bethesda, will run at 30fps on Xbox.
“It’s often running way above [30]. Sometimes it’s 60,” Starfield game director Todd Howard said in an interview with IGN. “But on the consoles, we do lock it because we prefer the consistency.” Xbox chief Phil Spencer defended the choice as a “creative decision” instead of it being a platform limitation.
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