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Game News Oblivion sells like hotcakes!

Saint_Proverbius

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<a href="http://www.bethsoft.com">Bethesda</a> has sent out a press release about <a href="http://www.elderscrolls.com">Olivion</a> selling 1.7 gazillion copies solar system wide.
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<blockquote><b>April 10, 2006 (Rockville, MD)</b> – Bethesda Softworks® announced that its hit title, The Elder Scrolls® IV: Oblivion™ has achieved record sales, reflecting huge market demand for the title. Over 1.7 million units of Oblivion for the PC and Xbox 360 have been shipped since the launch of the game.
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In North America, Oblivion has become the fastest selling game released on the Xbox 360. The NPD Group Inc reports Oblivion PC as the best selling PC game, while the Oblivion Collectors Edition is ranked number 2. NPD reports that Oblivion represented approximately 13% of all PC game sales in the first week of its release, more than four times the sales volume of the next best selling title. (The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind®, the highly-regarded predecessor to Oblivion, remains one of the top 25 best selling PC games nearly four years after its release, according to NPD). European results have been similarly strong with Oblivion quickly becoming ranked the number one selling title in the UK, Germany and France.
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Oblivion has earned high praise and awards from publications around the world. Official Xbox Magazine (US) gave Oblivion a 9.5 out of 10 and an Editor’s Choice award, calling Oblivion "An Absolute Masterpiece." PC Gamer (US) awarded it an Editor’s Choice Award and a score of 95%, calling it "a classic” and “one of the best RPGs ever made." And the largest circulation gaming magazine in the world, Game Informer, gave Oblivion 9.5 out of 10 and said, "The bar for the next generation of RPGs has just been set."
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Reaction around the world has been equally laudatory. Oblivion has been featured on more than 30 magazine covers in the US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, Benelux, and other countries. The leading PC game magazine in Great Britain rated it a "Must Buy" and said Oblivion "is one of those rare and wonderful treats of gaming that’s so recklessly ambitious and staggeringly accomplished that it makes even great games…seem small-minded and clumsy by comparison."
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Oblivion is currently the #1 ranked Xbox 360 game and the #1 ranked PC game on both MetaCritic.com and GameRankings.com. MetaCritic and GameRankings are sites that calculate a ranking of games based on review scores published by recognized print, broadcast, and online media outlets around the world.
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Oblivion was released in five different languages—English, French, German, Spanish and Italian—and packaged as a regular edition and a collector’s edition in North America, Europe, Australia, and parts of Asia. Bethesda Softworks’ 368-page Official Game Guide offers hints and strategies to those playing the game, and has experienced unusually favorable attach ratios to game sales. The book was ranked #10 on the Amazon list of bestselling books in the first week after release.
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The long-awaited Oblivion represents the quintessential role-playing experience for the next-generation of gaming, inviting gamers into the sprawling environments of Tamriel, the most vibrant game-world ever created. With a powerful combination of free-form gameplay, unprecedented graphics, cutting edge AI, character voices by well known actors, and a masterful musical score, gamers can choose to unravel Oblivion’s epic narrative or simply explore the vast landscape in search of their own unique challenges.
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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is rated "T" for Teen by the ESRB and is available for both the PC and the Xbox 360 in regular and collector’s editions. For more information on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, visit <A href="http://www.elderscrolls.com">www.elderscrolls.com</a>.</blockquote>
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Looks like the uber manual sold pretty well also.
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Oarfish

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Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg. Those funny little countries that keep getting in the way of Germans.
 

elander_

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The quintessential Role-Playing experience for the next gen generation. LOL

Bethesda made the miracle of transmutating gold into shit and making lots of money from it.
 

Excrément

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how many copies of MW, Trinunal and Bloodmoon did they sell?

1.7 million seem very important, I heard they sell around 1.5 millions copies of Morrowind (I maybe wrong), so 1.7 in 3 weeks is surprising.
 

Oarfish

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1.7 million seem very important

I would imagine a lot of that is 360 sales - there are bugger all titles for it at the moment. Oh, and it isn't chipped yet.
 

Micmu

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PR bullshit said:
...cutting edge AI...
PR bullshit said:
...Oblivion represents the quintessential role-playing experience...
:lol: :lol: :lol:
Aww, gotta love them. And they keep on doing it, selling millions of this Dungeon lords-like shit based entirely on aggressive and efficient marketing.
 

Whipporowill

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GhanBuriGhan said:
Whipporowill said:
Elwro said:
"Shipped" does not mean "sold", right?

Correct.

Well, I suppose it means sold from the perspective of Bethesda. If the resellers can't get rid of it, I doubt they can give it back to Bethesda.

Well, there usually is some kind of return policy for things like that (records, books et c). Not saying it'll be actually necessary for the retail chains to return any games, but without it I doubt chains would order these amounts. This is nothing new, we've heard about numbers "shipped" before and debunked it.
 

Cimmerian Nights

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I'm glad they took the high road and didn't just release some fluffy hype.

...Official Xbox Magazine (US) gave Oblivion a 9.5 out of 10 and an Editor’s Choice award, calling Oblivion "An Absolute Masterpiece." ......

Fucking Goebbels couldn't say this shit without blushing.
 

Blacklung

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Psychology studies do show that the better we are prepared for bad shit, the better we can cope with it (given we aren't told to soon or far in advance). And considering all of our harping, I'd say that would get people pretty prepared. Of course, how many people actually fully read our posts is up for question...plus these studies apply more for stress (but then again you could count playing some of OB as a stressful experience)...so whatever.
 

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