The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Tops 4 Million Players - Sales
by William D'Angelo , posted on 25 April 2025 / 11,824 Views
Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has surpassed four million players since it released a few days ago.
"We are so grateful to the over 4 million of you that have already ventured into Cyrodiil with Oblivion Remastered. Thank you!" said Bethesda.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered released for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass on April 22.
We are so grateful to the over 4 million of you that have already ventured into Cyrodiil with Oblivion Remastered. Thank you!
— Bethesda Game Studios (@bethesdastudios.com) April 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Not bad, 10 million probably isn't far off.
its as addictive as i remember
Good move by Bethesda and Virtuos to drop this remaster. TES6 is still some years off and this a good way to keep fans appeased until then.
I having a blast with the game myself enjoying it more than i did the original.
Very impressive for a shadowdropped title. Bethesda will be able to remaster this for a couple more gens until TES VI is finally done.
At this rate, we'll be playing a proper Skyrim remaster/remake as well before TES VI is out.
They could have waited a week or two before launching to give COE33 some room.... Oblivion remastered was always going to sell, well.
It still needs patches to improve game play performance
Shows how impressive it was back in 2006, that after 20 years you only have to do a graphics upgrade and a few quality of life changes and, voila you have a game people will buy/play all over again in the millions.
It was before DEI.
Impressive and yet, kinda expected a bit more. The hype around it has been huge and GP release would surely mean a lot of people would just download to try right?
It's better than Indiana jones(4m in a month, but no PS) but worse than Starfield(6m on release day + early access)
Indie was that low? I guess Indie might have a following with the millenials but isn't as hyped as an Oblvion remaster.
I think MS did a poor job marketing Indiana Jones as well. If you remember, the discussion near its launch was it's going to be a bad game that will just die. Then it turned out to be a game people actually kinda liked.
Avowed is probably north of 6 million at this point. Also a game MS didn't really market had expectations were low.
So Oblivion passing 4 million in days is pretty impressive. No real marketing, just the hype created by its own existence.
Both you and GUnit have made some good points. If anything I need to adjust my expectations for not only numbers of potential users who sub to GP ult (I think in my mind it's a lot higher) and how people use it (which is to say the main appeal I see, as in day one stuff) isn't as important for many.
I know for the biggest titles, I'd download and have a look at nearly all of them, maybe not the smaller indies but not everyone is going to do that.
You ask that with every GP release lol. Have you not seen how many games have been released on GP recently though? And there’s still the new Doom in a couple of weeks! People only have so much time to play games lol. I already had to put 3 games I’ve been trying to play back in my backlog since this shadow dropped lol
What world do we live in where 4 million in just a couple of days for a shadow drop of a nearly 20 year old game isn’t only impressive? Lol this mainly seems to be catering to the nostalgia crowd.
"People only have so much time to play games lol. I already had to put 3 games I’ve been trying to play back in my backlog since this shadow dropped lol"
Right, you literally dropped what you were playing to do it what I expect people to do. I find it weird they don't just download to try if they have GP.
Are they not curious enough to download, see what it looks like then uninstall if they don't have time to play? This players are also still PC, PS and Xbox non GP subs as well after all, not just GP.
When is impressive not impressive? Just because I expected more, does not mean it's not.
Yes, but my situation is different because I put 500 hours into Oblivion back in the day, so I’m part of the nostalgic crowd I mentioned.
There isn’t a single subscription service where the majority of the number of subscribers flood a major new release. Even Netflix, where the largest launch ever was Squid Game Season 2 that had 68 million viewers in 3 days, which sounds great till you realize Netflix has 300 million subscribers, so it’s only a fraction that watched.
Not to mention, out of the 4 available GP tiers, day one games are only available on 2 of them. So it’s also only a portion of overall subs that have the option. So how you think the subscriber system works, isn’t the reality. The biggest benefit is it doesn’t matter if you play it now or years down the road, first party games will remain on the service for a theoretical infinite amount of time.
All game pass numbers then, atrocious performance on PC; unacceptable.
https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2025-oblivion-remastered-is-one-of-the-worst-performing-pc-games-weve-ever-tested
Those news articles would definitely not be the same without you and Hardstuck :D
We are lucky to have you both!
