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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Massively Outsold the Original Oblivion in the U.S. in its First Month

a year ago by alessandro to c/pcgaming

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered launched in a not-so-surprising shadow drop at the tail end of the month, and in just one week managed to vastly outsell the original Oblivion's first 15 months on the market.
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Nednarb44 31 points a year ago

Part nostalgia, part "we're desperate for a new elder scrolls experience"

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neshura 44 points a year ago

Significant part: there were fewer customers in the entire market back then

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commander 10 points a year ago

Definitely. I got Oblivion in April of 2006 about a month after the game came out. Xbox 360 had just come out months prior in November 2005. Morrowind was not a mainstream hit. Oblivion also not being a mainstream game yet. Mainstream for the series was Skyrim with the arrow in the knee and fus roh dah viral stuff

Steam started supported 3rd party games in I believe 2005. Peak concurrent users on Steam was probably in the low hundreds of thousands compared to today's ~40 million. PS3 would launch end of 2006 and Oblivion wouldn't show up on it until some time after launch

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