I'd guess digital copies are not included in the 10 million figure.

Lets not also forget that dollars are not the only currency that was paid to own the game. You should also factor in sales from other regions and the currency they use and the value of that converted to dollars.

I believe they include the serial numbers they transfer to Valve and elsewhere for digital resale as copies shipped. The total physical sales for the game are an estimated 6.83 million, with 3.55 million on 360, 2.02 million on PS3, and 1.26 million on PC. The numbers work out if you estimate another 1 million or so in digital sales on the PC, which puts the PC sales in-between the PS3 and 360 sales, and the total number of sales at around 8+ million, which makes sense if they've shipped 10 million. To increase the PC sales numbers in a way that stretches the "10 million shipped" status means that the PC version has significantly outsold the 360 version. And even then, it still doesn't come close to validating the MSNBC report's claim of it selling 3x as much as other PC games this year, as it still wouldn't be the highest selling PC game this year.

Ok, nice pile of cash Pete n Todd. Now put some people on sorting out my game crashing every 30 min. Thanks

ok...in europe € 69 ----> around $ 95, but that big pile of cash is not all for bethesda,..

Am I the only one that thinks they don't deserve it?

hopefully this will stop Beths views of "oh there's way more money to be made on the consoles" and stop consolifying the series to death

Um there's a huge flaw in that logic, that being the game is a huge sucess on PC, so why would they change anything but keep going in the direction they're going. Its obviously working.

next time make a better main storyline and better guild progression.

Give it all to FO4's development team

kthxbai

Flawed logic. Each TES has sold more than the previous, despite having different directions, so obviously any of those directions is the right direction. Sequels sell more than their predecessors due to the name growing, the available gaming audience growing, and largely because of the marketing budget growing. Star Was Revenge of the Sith made more at the box office than Empire Strikes Back, after adjusting for inflation. Speaks for itself.

Hmm yea your right, your logic makes sense, its a huge success on PC... lets keep making the menu's consolifyed for PC users! WOOT!

Congrats, Bethesda. this game certainly deserves it, it's the best game in years.

Pretty much, yes.

Actually the report was not a claim, it was a report. I believe, if you watch it I will be validated, this was a statement that Valve released that they were reporting. I guess Valve would know, considering they own Steam.

As far as units shipped. I guess that wouldn't mean that every unit was sold. But I'm not sure how it all works. It is possible that stores pay for the copies when they get them? I don't know. In any event the game is a huge success, $650 million is a huge number. Perhaps it is less. Nevertheless it still has to be a huge amount.

Agreed.

Yes they do deserve it, but it still doesnt feel fair that we get a product that is very buggy for a ton of people.

nobody deserves 650+millions...

Depending on what's being referred to by "it," it's a claim and a report. The MSNBC journalist responsible for the report misunderstood the source information and said Skyrim has sold 3x as much as any PC game this year, when the source information meant specifically compared to other sales through Steam. A game like Battlefield 3 has sold more than Skyrim, but isn't available on Steam.

The units shipped is a different figure than units sold. I believe publishers don't get their payout from physical units sold until the end of the fiscal quarter after the item has been sold off the shelf.

Go Bethesda! You rock!

Come on CK.

Time to go play moar Skyrims.

It is in fact.

Next time they might publish a PC version who have controls aimed at homo sapiens as opposed to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scylla_serrata

Exactly And why do these people care about piracy. This 1 freaking game makes a Billion freaking dollars. Cry me a River with this anti-piracy b.s.

Thats 10 million copies shipped, do we know how many have been sold?

I have found it quite challenging. There have been a few times when an enemy has hit me loafs and done like a quater of my health and then killed me with a fluke attack. I have had to tutn it down to apprentice in two dungeons.

I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you. Bethesda hasn't shown any interest and I don't think ever will show interest in doing anything but giving the PC Users a crappy PORT that the Modding Community has to fix every time.

Maybe if people were to stop buying the PC version when it's nothing but a PORT than Bethesda would realize that they need to make the PC version better.