Skyrim Has Now Sold More Than 60 Million Copies, According To Bethesda

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Fallout New Vegas needs to come to Switch

Congratulations! A great game. Very atmospheric and fun. Have it on the PlayStation 3,4 and on PC.

Fallout 4 is now my favourite Skyrimlike game. Every dungeon feels like it has a story. A big improvement over Skyrim's dungeons.

I am very curious to find out how good Elder Scrolls VI will be.

Wondering What is PUBG?

@quinnyboy58 Well you could just google it but anyway it's PlayerUnknow's Battlegrounds, a battle royal shooter

Awesome, now Bethesda, please send Switch some Fallout love! I’d be happy with just FO3 and NV. Pretty please with a Cherry on top?!

Also the most milked game ever

They stood relevant because of the mod community.

That's amazing. I wonder how many it sold on the Switchy

I must have missed the part where Link showed up.

The mods for that game are insane, one of he many examples of the modding community prolonging a game.

Skyrim wins the "game I bought the most times trying to understand why people like it" award from me. I've tried. It just doesn't feel good to play to me.

Considering how little they've done to fix the thousand of bugs in the re-releases, completely undeserved.

The modding community carried this game on their backs.

@Dm9982 100%.

@Sambuc I don't get why this has not happened.

@Pat_trick TBF the game itself embraced/encouraging modding which is a rarity. You can even download the unofficial patch if you want to address the bug fixes

“Skyrim has now sold 60 million different versions”. Fixed the title for you.

I might be impressed if Skyrim didn't have numerous releases, im sure alot of games could sell 60 million units "if they had multiple releases"
The standard edition, special edition, legendary edition, anniversary edition, Skyrim VR.
60 million units isn't that much if you consider how many releases Skyrim has had.
7th best selling game of all time is rubbish, look at all the different releases and they act like that's an accomplishment. Act all surprised, big whoop.

I've never liked games like Skyrim but I gotta say, something about Skyrim just pulls you in, I think the only game I've played more is BOTW.

@Arawn93 It's really nice of Bethesda to be so open to the modding community, but they basically used it as a crutch to not actually fix their own game.

I still go back and play. Still have a lot to do and I have been playing since day 1.

I regret my purchase

Crazy that a Wii U game is the 6th best selling game of all time.

I bought the Switch version at launch, and I just couldn't get into it (though I intend to revisit it one of these days).

Breath of the Wild (and now Tears of the Kingdom) have pretty much ruined the fantasy/adventure/RPG genre for me (though I was never a great follower of it in the first place). BotW did so, so, so much right with its brilliantly intuitive design that it's set a rather lofty benchmark.

And why would I (or rather should I) settle for an inferior experience when I can play (what is arguably) the best?

Similarly, Nintendo has also ruined 2D/3D platforming for me (in the best possible way, of course). When I booted up the Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy for the first time, within minutes, I asked myself why I was even giving it the time of day when I still had moons to collect in Super Mario Odyssey.

And while I am not in the "Nintendo should go third-party" boat, but if BotW been a multiplatform title, I would put money on the likelihood of it far exceeding Skyrim's sales.

@Cheez : Oh, the irony!

Long may she reign! (the humble Wii U, that is )

Not a surprise, when you consider that the game has been endlessly re-released and remastered

Some people never walked through the Skyrim wilderness while Secunda played at night and it shows.
I have over 800 hours sunk into it on Switch alone, also played in on the ps3 and pc.

Skyrim is on every modern platform imaginable and yet MarioKart 8 Deluxe has sold almost 60 mil on Switch alone

60 million.

The game released on:
1. PC (multiple times) *
2. XBOX 360
3. PS3 *
4. XBOX ONE *
5. PS4
6. Switch *
7. XBOX Series S|X
8. PS5

That's an average of 7,5 million copies per platform.

Tears of the Kingdom is already at 10 million copies.
Let that sink in.

*) Versions I bought

They can’t be done with Starfield soon enough. I’d rather see them to be wholly and solely focused on TES VI development already.
Till then I’ll just keep playing Skyrim, but luckily the fan remakes of Morrowind (Skywind) and Oblivion (Skyblivion) are coming along nicely and should be released in the next couple of years.

Argonians & Orcs ftw!

Also, I wouldn’t say no to more updates like the Anniversary update, like an update that adds more lore friendly armour for Argonians, Khajiit and Wood Elves would be nice, or at the very least, an update with the mod that allows Argonian horns and Khajiit ears to stick through headgear.

@Nikki_boagreis what are you talking about. Tetris has been re-released on EVERYTHING, and its basically the same game over and over

60 millions is also the amount of bugs that have never been fixed in this ***** game since the very first version, despite multiple releases.

After all these years, I finally caved in and bought the game a couple months ago. Only spent $7 but I still regret it. I thought maybe the game would be more fun than it looked in videos, but no, it's really not.

@Sambuc I think MS games going outside of their ecosystem is just about done. One the activision deal goes through they will keep those after a few years of appeasing the courts as well.

Nevermind how many platforms it's released on, I picked it up on Steam for peanuts years ago, so while 60 million is a cool achievement for any developer, I suspect many millions of those sales won't have generated huge amounts of cash. But what do I know?

So in an era where everybody complains every game needs to be remade over n over for all platforms because of game preservation or whatever BS they're pushing it as, when a company actually does that... you guys take pot shots at their sales numbers?

Just say you didn't like it or better yet don't say anything at all!

The BOTW tie-in was a A+ PR move by Nintendo, instead of just being some crossover content it invents people to compare these two games which utterly exposes the soulless gameplay feel and design of Skyrim, if Nintendo’s marketing team wanted to show just how different BOTW was from other open world games Skyrim is exactly what you’d want to use to demonstrate this.

Skyrim is an incredible game that is very poorly executed technically. The sheer amount of bugs, glitches and crashes is mind boggling to be coming from such a high end studio. Maybe it’s just the sheer amount of content but man it is a bug-fest. Regardless i have over 200:hours in it so clearly it hasn’t stopped me.

To this day I still have not played this game. Part of me wants to try it because RPGs are my favorite genre and this game is so heavily praised. Yet for some reason it just doesn't look interesting to me.

So the list goes...

1. GTA V
2. Mario Kart 8
3. Skyrim

Since Tetris and Minecraft are different versions or mobile with no features.

@Cheez it isn't.

@LikelySatan
I get that.
To me, Skyrim is the most overrated game of all time. The dictionary definition of quantity over quality, as the amount of content is staggering but nothing is executed well.
And open world rpgs are a genre that I normally like...

I bought the game on day one of its original release, was very hyped.
But the more I played it, the more I was just searching for the part of the game that is good.
I did one thing and it was disappointing.
I did another thing and I ended up being disappointed again.
I never stopped getting disappointed by everything until I finally dropped it.

We seem to be in a minority though. Most people do seem to love it.

@Deviant-Dork The combined total for Wii U and Switch sales of Mario Kart 8 is 62.25 mil copies. I said the Switch version had sold almost 60 mil as it's at 53.79 mil copies

@LXP8 so it hasn't almost sold 60 million based on what you said. Got it, thanks for the clarification. Almost 54 million is a lot of races being raced haha

60 milions of people are now finally awake

I’ve never looked back. The Rim is home now. Leg of goat, anyone?

It makes sense. When you've had a least two different remaster version and you've re-released the game on every single major platform since the X360/PS3 you're bound to get high sales.

GTA V wouldn't have the insanely high numbers it does if it didn't have a current gen version.

@Sisilly_G Similar experience for me in reverse. Day I bought my Switch it was between Skyrim and BOTW. The more mature looking choice grabbed me. Every time I wanted to finally experience BOTW I just looked at Skyrim and it was like; really?? With what time can I not play this? Lol. Now enter ToTK and I’ve all but given up on catching up. Ah well.

Well deserved, it's one of the best games ever made.

@sanderev Except the distribution is nothing like 7.5m per platform, but even if it was it's still fantastic sales.

@Deviant-Dork Are you saying a Wii U game is the second best selling game of all time?!

@Cheez I know, it's funny to think about.

@Kirgo yeah I'll never say it's bad. Just not for me. My thing is just that a game needs to feel great for me to play it that long.

Skyrim has been on my to do list since forever. Maybe one day

@Cordyceps Well, Bethesda just keeps remaking this game without making the next game. When people ask for Wind Waker on Switch, it isn't because the franchise has stalled.

@Crono1973 Starfield?
Games take a lot longer to make now.

Skyrim, despite being terrible in technical terms, really had something that pulls you in. Let's just say that I played BorW once and didn't even care enough to fight the final boss once I did every other single thing, while I've completed Skyrim on Switch alone around 4 times and now I'm playing through the AE.

I think it's the sheer complexity of the world in the game, the endless inter-faction relations and freedom to do pretty much anything, for better or worse, since the engine can barely handle so many variables and scripts running in the background. The world feels alive, with far-reaching consequences of many actions. You can do anything, be a saint or a d*ck or a khajiit kleptomaniac :3, the world's your oyster.

I think that's what stopped me from fully enjoying BorW, the juxtaposition of the amazing freedom of exploration and the tight and constrictive limits of the singular role of Link. I think it hit me the most during the flower puzzle, just how many things actually limit your freedom in that game. That and with the clear division between npcs and mobs, them not really interacting outside of a few scripted events and the severe compartmentalisation of the entire in-game world, where things done in one place very rarely if at all affect any other places, the world didn't really feel alive.

Gonna try TotK once i can buy a cheaper used copy to see if they fixed that.

But, yeah, Skyrim is great.

@UltimateOtaku91 Think that title belongs to Call of Duty...