The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim garnered more than 50 perfect reviews and it looks like it also sold a lot of copies, but it's a little hard to pinpoint exactly how much money the massive fantasy role-playing game has brought in so far.


The press release says that they expect that the game will generate more than $450 million in global retail sales at launch. They also tell us they shipped seven million copies worldwide. Also, and stay with me here, half of the game's "launch units" were sold in the first 48 hours and the studio says it is swamped for large reorders. The final number: Skyrim set a record on Steam with more than 280,000 concurrent players.

What's that all mean? Well, that Skyrim probably sold a fuckton of games, and will likely continue to sell a fuckton of games. How many is a fuckton? This is far too close to computing the speed of approaching trains for me to figure that out.


You can contact Brian Crecente, the author of this post, at brian@kotaku.com. You can also find him on Twitter, Facebook, and lurking around our #tips page.