Bethesda's Todd Howard told IGN that they locked the game at 30FPS to keep it consistent, even though the game can go much higher and sometimes even touch 60FPS. Obviously, on PC, you can run it as low or high as your heart desires, but consoles don't have that luxury. Now, Starfield is confirmed to be locked to 30FPS on Xbox Series X and S. Redfall recently launched and was targeting 30FPS, but would often fall below that while playing. While we have seen a number of games running in 4K60FPS or even games running at good resolutions and 120FPS, there have been some weaker examples. With that said, Xbox wanted to ensure that wouldn't happen again and marketed Xbox Series X as the world's most powerful console and pushed Xbox Series S as a more casual, less powerful option for players looking for a lower cost of entry. This changed over time as developers began to understand the hardware and Microsoft released more powerful versions of the console, such as the Xbox One X, but it was still a struggle.

Xbox had a pretty rough go with the Xbox One as the console launched and wasn't hitting 1080p for a lot of games in its early days.

Starfield will not be silky smooth on consoles, unfortunately.

Dead space 1 30 fps lock