Steam has ~218,000 people playing Skyrim : V

» Fri May 11, 2012 5:42 am

That's a lot of PC players at one time - wonder what the total digital sales were, because I can't imagine that even half the people who bought the (pc) game are all playing at the exact same time

# going up , now ~ 221,000 http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

edit : apparently Steam is choking on Skyrim - I see a lot of posts about problems installing from Steam

» Fri May 11, 2012 6:17 am

edit: my bad, PC only.

» Fri May 11, 2012 2:18 am

Yeah It's a shame digital purchases still can't be counted. Makes the PC industry look way smaller than it is.

» Fri May 11, 2012 3:18 am

Well, as I told other people here (Dragonborn1), the "consoles are 90% of our audience" comment by Todd was obviously purely false nonsensical bee-ess. PC sales are probably about equal to each console's sales.

» Fri May 11, 2012 4:09 am

Probably it could be doubled if it wasn't for the mouse+keyboard issuses,atleast im not playing until it will be fixed

» Fri May 11, 2012 9:30 am

Probably it could be doubled if it wasn't for the mouse+keyboard issuses,atleast im not playing until it will be fixed

There is already an update that fixes these -- the mouse now works in the menus for selecting things like it should so you might want to retry !

» Fri May 11, 2012 6:00 am

Well, as I told other people here (Dragonborn1), the "consoles are 90% of our audience" comment by Todd was obviously purely false nonsensical bee-ess. PC sales are probably about equal to each console's sales.

Total PC sales almost surely exceed PS3 sales,but XBOX unit volume is 3X PS3

BUT : profit dollars may come mostly from PC version!!!! Depends on volume of digital sales https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At9e86IO-Ap3dDJmMVNKWUpqNTlsd2hIM2ZXUDVFYVE&hl=en_US#gid=0

» Fri May 11, 2012 2:56 am

up over 225,000 now

» Fri May 11, 2012 9:59 am

today it's up to >248,000!

» Fri May 11, 2012 6:43 am

Related: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/12/skyrim-reaches-nearly-250000-concurrent-steam-users-on-day-one-topples-mw3/

» Fri May 11, 2012 10:29 am

today it's up to >248,000!

Vegeta would probably be having an aneurysm right about now.

» Fri May 11, 2012 8:35 am

Related: http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/12/skyrim-reaches-nearly-250000-concurrent-steam-users-on-day-one-topples-mw3/

I especially like the quote "it’s probably also a record number of people concurrently falling to their knees, gazing up into the falling rain, and cursing a single interface designer’s name. "

» Fri May 11, 2012 7:11 am

lol, that article says it is beating MW3, but MW3 isn't really played on the PC. I don't think you can make that claim when there are 1,000,000 players playing MW3 on the console

Still, amazing stats for a single player game.

» Fri May 11, 2012 10:19 am

Well, as I told other people here (Dragonborn1), the "consoles are 90% of our audience" comment by Todd was obviously purely false nonsensical bee-ess. PC sales are probably about equal to each console's sales.

90% might be a high estimate, I would guess 75%, 3/4 area.

I seem to recall just pre-orders for 360 and PS3 being over 1,800,000 just in the US...

» Fri May 11, 2012 1:01 am

90% might be a high estimate, I would guess 75%, 3/4 area.

I seem to recall just pre-orders for 360 and PS3 being over 1,800,000 just in the US...

Consoles just over 1,630,000, PC ~ 223,000 without counting digital download versions http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders.php. DD estimated to be 1.5 to 2.0 X retail

» Thu May 10, 2012 10:56 pm

Well, as I told other people here (Dragonborn1), the "consoles are 90% of our audience" comment by Todd was obviously purely false nonsensical bee-ess. PC sales are probably about equal to each console's sales.

That was years ago after Oblivion came out. However, after Skyrim was announced, Todd also ate humble pie and acknowledged that Beth's games need mods to truly appreciate and stated that the company was fully aware of and supportive of modding on PC (and that they were strongly pushing consoles to allow such activity, too, but no luck yet). At the same time, he also stated that their sales were about even between PC and consoles (this is probably because many people own multiple copies).

» Fri May 11, 2012 7:09 am

Is it so hard to believe Skyrim could out-sell MW3? MW3 is based almost purely from the hype of the other games, and is basicly just a new map pack. I don't believe the whole CoD community is so unaware of that.

» Fri May 11, 2012 1:26 am

That's a lot of PC players at one time - wonder what the total digital sales were, because I can't imagine that even half the people who bought the (pc) game are all playing at the exact same time....

Keep in mind that many people that have the game now did not pre-order. For example, they may have just gone to a store and bought it. So I see no problem with the numbers.

» Fri May 11, 2012 2:39 am

peaked at >287,000 today, but there are still a LOT of people on forums

» Thu May 10, 2012 10:38 pm

Total PC sales almost surely exceed PS3 sales,but XBOX unit volume is 3X PS3

BUT : profit dollars may come mostly from PC version!!!! Depends on volume of digital sales https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0At9e86IO-Ap3dDJmMVNKWUpqNTlsd2hIM2ZXUDVFYVE&hl=en_US#gid=0

That chart's crazy confusing D: From what I've gathered, Skyrim's made 93 mil so far?

» Fri May 11, 2012 8:30 am

peaked at >287,000 today, but there are still a LOT of people on forums

And that doesn't even count players like myself who keeps Steam running in offline mode.

» Fri May 11, 2012 11:59 am

Is it so hard to believe Skyrim could out-sell MW3? MW3 is based almost purely from the hype of the other games, and is basicly just a new map pack. I don't believe the whole CoD community is so unaware of that.

MW3 has made more money first-day than any other entertainment/media/whatever release in history. $400 million.

That's a LOT of unaware people. http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/121/1212246p1.html

Anyways, I don't wanna live in a world where the second re-release of CoD 4 is dominating sales, so I'm gonna jump into some Skyrim right now.

» Thu May 10, 2012 10:34 pm

I've been keeping track...it's exciting to see how popular it is and how ~~STUPID MW3~~ is. Hope Bethesda responds with patches and content galore!

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/2277/steamskyrim1.jpg

http://img809.imageshack.us/img809/149/steamskyrim2.jpg

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/9871/steamskyrim3.jpg

BadAss!

» Thu May 10, 2012 8:37 pm

That chart's crazy confusing D: From what I've gathered, Skyrim's made 93 mil so far?

that's my guesstimate - lots of factors are guessed at : Gross Profit %, license fees, total sales (vs pre-orders)