Space is big enough for both of them.
They also had a big update recently so…
The FOMO in that game drove me away from it.
I would be curious to hear what other new game releases brought waves of people to a different title.
From what I have seen, granted I haven’t played it myself due to my burnout with Fallout 4, Starfield is just a Bethesda flavored No Man’s Sky.
Not much to grab my attention and most people I have seen played it seem to put it at a 5-6/10 type of game. Good, but nothing really great.
Meanwhile we have an arguably more fleshed out space exploration game that is No Man’s Sky to suit your itch, that is probably cheaper or on sale somewhere. Doesn’t helping modding will take years to reach really big game altering levels as it took a while, If even that.
Tbh, No Mans Sky and Starfield have little in common except being space games. Starfield isn’t a space exploration / space sim game. It’s an RPG set in space. Starfield has more of a storyline and characters then No Man’s Sky, they’re different games for different people
I wouldn’t call Starfield Bethesda-flavored NMS, I’d call it a NMS-flavored Bethesda game. NMS and Starfield aren’t very comparable except for the setting.