Jay520 said:
Munkeh111 said:
Jay520 said:
pezus said:
I don't believe so, no. 9-9.5m but not 10m+. Next generation is coming soon which will eventually hinder the sales, plus this is an RPG we are talking about. Skyrim had an insane amount of hype, which makes the sales more frontloaded than for, say, Oblivion. I think that sales for Oblivion and Skyrim will begin to follow a similar pattern after this year is over. Oblivion has sold 1.7m after its second year.
Skyrim will likely end the year with sales of around 7.4-7.6m, so 7.5+1.7m = 9.2m. Add in the fact that next generation is coming, and that Oblivion had the benefit of being a very early next gen release (for legs) and I'd say 9m looks about right, but it could possibly crawl to 9.5m.
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I know it's an RPG, but I think Skyrim has become quite mainstream amongst a lot of people. A lot of my friends bought just because they were fascinated with the prospect of a huge open world.
Also, plenty of games see excellent legs after the next gen starts. For example, GTA: San Andreas, GT4, ect. But then again, Skyrim is an RPG like you said. I think it's going to push the RPG genre to new boundaries in terms of sales. |
I agree, I wonder what percentage actually spend most of their time questing rather than just mucking about, I bet an even smaller percentage actually finished the main storyline
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It could be similar to GTA where a lot of people just run around doing stuff without progressing the story. |
Well even there, you have to play the story to progress to unlock areas of the map. Everything is unlocked in Skyrim
