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Jacob Ridley

Starfield's system requirements are pretty odd—don't buy a whole new PC to play just yet

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If you caught yesterday's Starfield Direct, you know that there's some serious scale to Starfield's gameplay and features. It also looks to be pretty demanding for it, even noting in the Starfield system requirements a need for an SSD and a pretty powerful GPU. Yet these system requirements are a bit… odd. Let's just say you might want to wait a little longer before going out to buy a new PC just to play the game.

First off, if you head to Starfield's Steam Page you'll see an additional note saying "SSD Required." That might be a sticking point for anyone still rocking an HDD as your primary drive (though it is well worth upgrading your machine, SSDs are dirt cheap right now). The thing is, there's no additional note on the system requirements page as listed over on the Xbox website to that effect.

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