Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim ships 7 million
ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks announced today that they have shipped 7 million copies of Skyrim to retail, and sold more than 50% of their launch stock in the first 48 hours.
ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks announced today that they've shipped 7 million copies of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim to retail across various territories. These launch units, which include pricey $150 special editions, alone are estimated to generate $450 million in global retail sales.
Bethesda also estimates that 50% of the launch units were sold in the first 48 hours, and the game has already received reorders from some retailers. The announcement also touts online sales, with Steam showing 280,000 concurrent players in the first 24 hours.
Shipped numbers aren't to be confused with sell-through rates, of course, but if that 50% sales rate is accurate, we can expect the game to make a dent in the NPD charts. Given the game's buzz and positive reception, that wouldn't be too surprising.
"We are grateful for the fans' response to Skyrim," said ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman in the announcement. "Todd Howard and his team at Bethesda Game Studios have crafted a very special game. Anticipation for Skyrim has surpassed any game in our company's history, and we are pleased that sales and reviews have reflected the quality and hours of amazing gameplay it provides."
Bethesda is currently working on patches for all platforms. Check out our review and new Skyrim Stories feature.
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ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks announced today that they have shipped 7 million copies of Skyrim to retail, and sold more than 50% of their launch stock in the first 48 hours.-
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I'm having such a hard time playing SR3 when I know there's so much to do and explore in Skyrim. It's even worse because both Batman and AC are waiting, I haven't even purchased either of those yet.
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i'm really tempted to setup a SkyrimForward site ala http://www.waterforward.org/ someone buys you a copy if you pledge to buy someone else a copy so that everyone in the world can enjoy skyrim!
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I must be the only one in the world who is not interested in this game? I just don't like RPG games.
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I liked AC2 and Brotherhood, but I just don't have any desire to get Revelations at the moment. Brotherhood was good, but it was pretty much the same game as AC2. Revelations looks to be more of the same. I guess that's not a bad thing, but I kinda want something new or fresh. I feel like Ubisoft is just churning them out Call of Duty style, but not shaking it up in the slightest. All the settings feel the same. I don't know.....
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Dicks.
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Given the size of their team, and the potential time in development it's probably somewhere between 20-30 million. Although, that doesn't include the advertising budget which would inflate the total costs quite a bit.
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Even I bought it despite its console development focus, that should tell you guys something. I'm really liking it so far :)
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This, but I had to go with PS3. I coudln't find a PC copy anywhere in the city so I broke down last night and bought the PS3 one. Still looks great, and plays great. I'll get the PC version sometime later, maybe after my next upgrade.
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Couldn't find it? Isn't it a steamworks game?
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No credit card anymore. Living in Taiwan it was getting overly silly having to pay all sorts of crazy wire transfer fees to pay off my US card, in addition to the bullshit currency conversion rates and whatnot. I just got tired of getting raped on it.
If I were a local getting a card through my bank here would be easy, but here they are fairly backwards. If I'm not a local I can't get one at all, even when I would normally get one easy as hell.
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If you must get it on a console, I would get the ps3 version since it doesn't have the texture bug.
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The load times are long, in a game where you are entering and exiting a lot of places.
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What exactly are you trying to get at? This isn't a console war discussion. If he has both, and is making a choice he should know about the 360 issues and the patch isn't coming out immediately so that doesn't mater when you need to decide now. I don't care what he, you or anyone decide to play it on.
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There is no difference; go with the one you'd rather get achievements for, or which controller you like better
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"We are grateful for the fans' response to Skyrim," said ZeniMax CEO Robert Altman in the announcement. "Todd Howard and his team at Bethesda Game Studios have crafted a very special game. Anticipation for Skyrim has surpassed any game in our company's history......
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And don't even think about stepping in messing up the next game.
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