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Skyrim will sell....

7.5m 20 31.75%
 
8.0m 12 19.05%
 
8.5m 10 15.87%
 
9.0m 9 14.29%
 
9.5m 1 1.59%
 
10m or higher 11 17.46%
 
Total:63
Solid-Stark on 24 June 2012

Does anyone know how much the GOTY editions of Fallout 3, New Vegas, and Oblivion boosted total sales?

Anyway I think it has a good shot of reaching 8.5-9.0m



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AndrewWK on 24 June 2012

Skyrim was a good game, but it had too many shortcomings for me at least. But I think it could reach 8 million with Dawnguard, or will Dawnguard be something like New Vegas?



Shura on 24 June 2012

betwen 9 and 9.5 i think.



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Pineapple on 24 June 2012

It's possible but highly unlikely.

Let's look at it this way: Have any X360 games sold 4 million from week 31 and out?

Halo 3 just failed to do it. It was at roughly 7.7 after 31 weeks (the exact amount is impossible to find, as it wasn't in the top 30 in the weeks around week 31)

GTA:IV is about 700k off, being at 6.3 million after 31 weeks (without a holiday!) and ending at 9.6.

None of the Call of Duties came close (obviously!), and nothing else sold enough (barring Kinect, which is obviously discounted for this).

But the thing is, GTA IV and Halo 3 have had over 4 years to do this, with increasing software sales nearly every year.The X360 is past/passing its prime, and definitely doesn't have 4 more years with healthy software sales. Outlegging Halo 3 is simply impossible for Skyrim under the circumstances.

 3 million more - resulting in 9 million overall - is going to be hard too, and I think it'll fall a bit short of that. So in betwen 8.5 million and 9 million.



Munkeh111 on 24 June 2012
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.


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

 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



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Jay520 on 24 June 2012
Pineapple said:

It's possible but highly unlikely.

Let's look at it this way: Have any X360 games sold 4 million from week 31 and out?

Halo 3 just failed to do it. It was at roughly 7.7 after 31 weeks (the exact amount is impossible to find, as it wasn't in the top 30 in the weeks around week 31)

GTA:IV is about 700k off, being at 6.3 million after 31 weeks (without a holiday!) and ending at 9.6.

None of the Call of Duties came close (obviously!), and nothing else sold enough (barring Kinect, which is obviously discounted for this).

But the thing is, GTA IV and Halo 3 have had over 4 years to do this, with increasing software sales nearly every year.The X360 is past/passing its prime, and definitely doesn't have 4 more years with healthy software sales. Outlegging Halo 3 is simply impossible for Skyrim under the circumstances.

 3 million more - resulting in 9 million overall - is going to be hard too, and I think it'll fall a bit short of that. So in betwen 8.5 million and 9 million.



Good point. It looks impossible when you put it that way. I didn't fully believe it'll get to 10m, but 10m sounds way better than 9m lol. Still amazing sales though.

chocoloco on 24 June 2012
AndrewWK said:
Skyrim was a good game, but it had too many shortcomings for me at least. But I think it could reach 8 million with Dawnguard, or will Dawnguard be something like New Vegas?

Game of the decade. It deserves those sales and more.



AndrewWK on 24 June 2012
chocoloco said:
AndrewWK said:
Skyrim was a good game, but it had too many shortcomings for me at least. But I think it could reach 8 million with Dawnguard, or will Dawnguard be something like New Vegas?

Game of the decade. It deserves those sales and more.


I am not saying it does not. But there where games far better then Skyrim The Witcher 2 was better imo but is not suited for the American Market.



chocoloco on 24 June 2012
AndrewWK said:
chocoloco said:
AndrewWK said:
Skyrim was a good game, but it had too many shortcomings for me at least. But I think it could reach 8 million with Dawnguard, or will Dawnguard be something like New Vegas?

Game of the decade. It deserves those sales and more.


I am not saying it does not. But there where games far better then Skyrim The Witcher 2 was better imo but is not suited for the American Market.

I doubt it, more like the Witcher 2 is unknown to the American market. PC gamers are certainly a minority here which is probably the main reason it is unknown since the 1st was pc only.  The next game on my list of games. 



usrevenge on 24 June 2012

with the game of the year edition and the collectors edition getting cheaper in many places I think it really could hit 10mil. Also if next box allows skyrim to be played or if they re-release skyrim with updated graphics or something then it will just propel it further.