Skyrim sales

[babis8142]

Skyrim sold 3.4 million copies in the first two days outselling Oblivion's first two days. Opinions?

 

It still didn't outsell CoD. Damn fanboys.

 

edit: physical copies only

 

edit2: 59% of units were sold on the X360 (over 2 million copies) and 27% on the PS3, with 14% on PC. :facepalm:

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/88459/skyrim-sales-exceed-34-million-units-in-two-days/

Edited November 16, 2011 by babis8142

[dartanian]

Skyrim sold 3.4 million copies in the first two days outselling Oblivion's first two days. Opinions?

 

It still didn't outsell CoD. Damn fanboys.

 

 

Nothing to worry about it will still make more money :>

[dikr]

Skyrim sold 3.4 million copies in the first two days outselling Oblivion's first two days. Opinions?

 

It still didn't outsell CoD. Damn fanboys.

 

edit: physical copies only

 

edit2: 59% of units were sold on the X360 (over 2 million copies) and 27% on the PS3, with 14% on PC. :facepalm:

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/88459/skyrim-sales-exceed-34-million-units-in-two-days/

 

Ouch, great numbers but the PC share makes me kind of understand why the UI is so much of a console design and the Creation Kit isn't released yet. Sadly we aren't their priority. Curse them basterd consoals!

[Kravick]

Remember, these were physical copies only. Since Skyrim requires Steam it made little sense for the vast majority of people to go out and buy a physical copy. None of my friends both online and IRL even bothered to pick up a physical copy. They all downloaded their copy online from Steam. Valve has not released any official numbers as to how many units they've sold. I honestly never pay much attention, but does Valve ever divulge that information?

[Ashrok]

Ouch, great numbers but the PC share makes me kind of understand why the UI is so much of a console design and the Creation Kit isn't released yet. Sadly we aren't their priority. Curse them basterd consoals!

 

edit: physical copies only

 

 

I bet it would look way different with the steam sales in it.

 

edit: Kravick, you beat me to it ;)

Edited November 16, 2011 by Ashrok

[Carreau]

Remember, these were physical copies only. Since Skyrim requires Steam it made little sense for the vast majority of people to go out and buy a physical copy. None of my friends both online and IRL even bothered to pick up a physical copy. They all downloaded their copy online from Steam. Valve has not released any official numbers as to how many units they've sold. I honestly never pay much attention, but does Valve ever divulge that information?

 

I can think of one or two games Valve has released digital sales info on. However, Valve does keep usage statistics handy. Steam reported a peak of 211,000 users today with only 98,000 currently playing (not bad considering the stat rolls over at midnight I'm assuming. Should be higher by the evening).

 

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/?snr=1_4_4__10

 

Now, peak users ever for Skyrim is ~290,000. Which seems a bit low given that 14% of the 3.4m boxed copies would be 476,000, and all PC users have to use steam to play. Something just seems...off.

 

http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/index.php

 

But at least Skyrim is beating MW3 online for players playing. :)

 

After seeing the % breakdown, though, I had to say to myself that it sucks to be in the 86% who bought it on consoles. I made that mistake with FO3. Bought the SE for PS3. Worst mistake ever since it's essentially unmoddable, and the lifetime of the game fell flat on its nose once I finished the retail content off.

[isamu99]

skyrim will outsell mw3 by the end of the year.....trust me.

[Ashrok]

I can think of one or two games Valve has released digital sales info on. However, Valve does keep usage statistics handy. Steam reported a peak of 211,000 users today with only 98,000 currently playing (not bad considering the stat rolls over at midnight I'm assuming. Should be higher by the evening).

 

http://store.steampowered.com/stats/?snr=1_4_4__10

 

Now, peak users ever for Skyrim is ~290,000. Which seems a bit low given that 14% of the 3.4m boxed copies would be 476,000, and all PC users have to use steam to play. Something just seems...off.

 

http://steamgraph.burstpixel.net/index.php

 

But at least Skyrim is beating MW3 online for players playing. :)

 

After seeing the % breakdown, though, I had to say to myself that it sucks to be in the 86% who bought it on consoles. I made that mistake with FO3. Bought the SE for PS3. Worst mistake ever since it's essentially unmoddable, and the lifetime of the game fell flat on its nose once I finished the retail content off.

 

Its likely that you can multiply the number of current players by like 4-5 if you count the whole day, since most people do not play longer than 6hours straight.

Also its not Weekend, so there is a big part missing at the peak number.

[dikr]

Ouch, great numbers but the PC share makes me kind of understand why the UI is so much of a console design and the Creation Kit isn't released yet. Sadly we aren't their priority. Curse them basterd consoals!

 

edit: physical copies only

 

 

I bet it would look way different with the steam sales in it.

 

edit: Kravick, you beat me to it ;)

 

Yeah. That makes up for something. But not all though: current trend is around 50% digital sales on new pc games. So you can roughly double the pc sales I guess.

[ThatKidLuke]

I dont get it.

 

If Bethesda/ZeniMax wants to release their PC sales - Retail and Digital distribution - why is everyone talking about Valve not releasing sales numbers? I thought its Bethesdas choice to do so.