Three months after its surprise release on consoles and PC, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has smashed an impressive milestone by topping nine million players.
Developer Bethesda Game Studios took to social media to announce the occasion, featuring a lighthearted image of everyone’s favourite character, the Adoring Fan, alongside the caption “To everyone who emerged as a hero of Kvatch, mastered Arch-Mage, rose to Grand Champion, banished the Blackwood Company, gallivanted as the Gray Fox, and listened to the Night. Thank you for sharing in our worlds.”
One thing to note is that these figures are for the total player numbers and do not translate to the game’s actual sales. This is due to the game launching on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, the platform’s monthly subscription service, meaning that there is likely a huge percentage of current players who did not pay full price for the game.
Even then, the title’s actual sales figures aren’t a slouch either, specifically on PC, as the title is currently sitting at an all-time concurrent player count of 216,784 on Steam at the time of writing. The game’s current milestone also far surpasses its previous four million player count, which it hit three months ago, meaning it garnered an average of more than one million players per month since then.
Despite not posting actual sales figures, it should come as no surprise that the game is selling really well, with previous reports stating that it sold more units in its first month than the original Oblivion did in 15 months, and was ranked in the top 20 best-selling games in the United States last month, according to Circana, and reported by its executive director for game, Mat Piscatella.
Still, this good news did come with a price, as despite enjoying these successful figures, it was reported earlier in the month that co-developer Virtuos had laid off 270 members of staff, citing a “rebalancing of roles across studios and geographies”.
Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise “duds” like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3. He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying.
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