Skyrim Americas pre-order update 2. : V - Skyrim

» Mon May 07, 2012 8:38 pm

Let's not forget those who are waiting before buying.

» Tue May 08, 2012 3:39 am

Minus the cost it was to make this thing. I can't imagine the budget...

Estimated at $100,000,000

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1814884/

» Tue May 08, 2012 9:24 am

Maybe Skyrim can get 5 million sales in one day or at least by the end of the weekend.

I hope so.

Biggest RPG launch in history possible?

You can bet on that.

Let's not forget those who are waiting before buying.

Of course my friend,i'm one of them,i will get Skyrim at the end of the month.

» Mon May 07, 2012 8:04 pm

Estimated at $100,000,000

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1814884/

Well I guess it's not much compared to Transformers 3's $300,000,000 budget

» Tue May 08, 2012 8:44 am

Maybe Skyrim can get 5 million sales in one day or at least by the end of the weekend.

I hope so.

Biggest RPG launch in history possible?

You can bet on that.

Let's not forget those who are waiting before buying.

Of course my friend,i'm one of them,i will get Skyrim at the end of the month.

» Tue May 08, 2012 4:15 am

Bill Gates: *makes grin, and ripple touches the ends of his fingers with each other*

Don't think Bill cares that much anymore, since he hasn't been involved much with Microsoft for a while. He's off doing his philanthropist thing with his foundation. Steve Ballmer probably cares more nowadays.

» Tue May 08, 2012 7:54 am

HMMMMMMMM FOR GAME OF THE YEAR THAT SEEMS QUITE MINISCULE LOL

» Tue May 08, 2012 3:56 am

I wonder what the estimate is on non american preorders.

» Mon May 07, 2012 6:17 pm

Here is the list:

Xbox 360: 1,204,558.

Ps3: 436,266.

Pc: 223,324. (Not including digital).

Total: 1,864,148.

http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders.php

$150000000 in pre-orders just preorders then theres the holidays word of mouth( my good friend is gamer and just got his ps3 back he just doenst even know the awesomeness thats gonna smite him) the stragglers and DLC on top holy [censored] why didn't get to binary code first!

» Mon May 07, 2012 11:03 pm

[censored] off with this VgChartz [censored]. Their stats are completely fake, just like their sales for Battlefield 1943 and Bad Company 2: Vietnam

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/browse.php?name=battlefield+1943

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/browse.php?name=Battlefield%3A+Bad+Company+2+Vietnam&keyword=&console=®ion=All&developer=&publisher=&genre=&boxart=Both&results=50&order=Popularity

0 sales at all? How can people beleive this crap, they have no credibility at all.

Those are all DLC or Digital. They don't track them, and even if they did this would just be a glitch.
Do you honestly think they're literally trying to tell you that all of those titles have never sold a single copy?
LOL

» Tue May 08, 2012 10:18 am

Those are all DLC or Digital. They don't track them, and even if they did this would just be a glitch.
Do you honestly think they're literally trying to tell you that all of those titles have never sold a single copy?
LOL

This.

» Tue May 08, 2012 3:29 am

Minus the cost it was to make this thing. I can't imagine the budget...

Minus the 20% to Valve (PC) and the 17% to Microsoft (XBox)....

» Tue May 08, 2012 10:15 am

I doubt IMDB is right about Skyrim's budget.

Skyrim will turn a healthy profit.

» Tue May 08, 2012 4:23 am

I doubt IMDB is right about Skyrim's budget.

It's an estimate. Why do you say that?, seems like a reasonable estimate to me. GTA IV had a $100,000,000 budget.

http://www.digitalbattle.com/2010/02/20/top-10-most-expensive-video-games-budgets-ever/

» Tue May 08, 2012 7:18 am

Here is the list:

Xbox 360: 1,204,558.

Ps3: 436,266.

Pc: 223,324. (Not including digital).

Total: 1,864,148.

http://www.vgchartz.com/preorders.php

I think digital + hard copy PC matches PS3 at worst. In this case, I hope Bethesda look to the PC community and invest some of their revenue to supply us with full DX 11 support.

» Tue May 08, 2012 7:32 am

It's an estimate. Why do you say that?

I know it's an estimate. I'm saying it's an inacurate estimate.

There is only game that costed $100M to develop: GTA4.

» Mon May 07, 2012 8:54 pm

Really disappointing PC sales there. Well, compared to consoles I mean.

» Tue May 08, 2012 5:45 am

GTA IV had a $100,000,000 budget.

http://www.digitalbattle.com/2010/02/20/top-10-most-expensive-video-games-budgets-ever/

True.

» Tue May 08, 2012 1:25 am

And that's just America?

1 digital from Argentina here... :thumbsup:

» Mon May 07, 2012 11:39 pm

Wasn't it only 1.3 last week? They should let the streams keep going. They seem to be helping.

» Tue May 08, 2012 8:40 am

Yeap, not surprised at all. Especially this is in the americas only.

In europe with their order and their 60 euros each, its gonna be a hefty party over at Bethesda

» Mon May 07, 2012 6:13 pm

Yeap, not surprised at all. Especially this is in the americas only.

In europe with their order and their 60 euros each, its gonna be a hefty party over at Bethesda

Hopefully.

» Tue May 08, 2012 5:29 am

Estimated at $100,000,000

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1814884/

+$70,000,000 = Advertisemants

The Witcher 2 costed something about $10,000,000 (total)

» Mon May 07, 2012 8:25 pm

Don't forget Skyrim, like Oblivion and Morrowind, will have a long life expectancy in the market due to the modding communities. Those are games that still have a profit margin today and are found on the shelves years after their release. The predicted GOTY edition with all DLCs will add more to this sum.
Those are very expensive games to make, but boy, are they profitable.

» Mon May 07, 2012 9:19 pm

That's not taking into account CE editions or digital copies. The real number is probably closer to $130M on the first day.

Where does it say CE not included???

Profit to Bethesda ~$40 - 50 Million

also, the web site says this "The most pre-ordered games in the Americas ranked by unit sales"

note that "..in the Americas" so does that mean North, Central, and South America?