Skyrim sells 3.5 million units in first 48 hours – all the details

Nice – it’s good to see Skyrim doing well.

Also; “its opening 48 hours on sales.”, I think you mean ‘sale’

Great to hear!

Either an overwhelming ammount of PC gamers bought this on Steam, or it sold a lot more than just 3,5 million. They’re still pulling 200k concurrent users.

@Stolen- Got carried away in the moment. Fixed.

@4 No worries – I would be just the same if I was a bearer of similar news

Fantastic news. Looks like Skyrim will sell 10+ mill. units (Twice as many copies as Oblivion).

@ DSB – You are correct, these sales numbers DO NOT include digital download copies, that has been confirmed. So 3.5 million PHYSICAL copies have been sold.

Awesome news! Really glad for Bethesda, they deserve it!

I think it clearly demonstrates to Bethesda, that the PC is far from dead, despite it being a port.

As usual,its just better to play in full res at 60 fps,Im sure the ps4 and xbox 720 or whatever will be able to get these specs,gaming will be great in a couple of years.I love my pc gaming but still want the ease of console,big screen,7.1 surround and controller.
Kinda off topic but who cares.well done bethesda all the same.

@8 So basically it completely validates porting

@10 – who knows. maybe for some games it works and others it doesnt. Im just not a fan of porting tbh. But its good to see the game hit big numbers(probably more than the 200k mentioned because these were actually playing all at the same time).

@10 And also shows that most PC games actually aren’t overbearing format snobs! OH MY GOD!

There’s a difference between being overbearing and just being nostalgic.

There does seem to be a lot of hysterical PC gamers, but there’s also a price to be paid for PC gamers in terms of ports. Look at the inventory system in Skyrim for example. It’s obviously designed the way it is because it has to fit on consoles, but on the PC it just seems backwards.

I have no problem with ports, and I generally enjoy most of them, but it would be a shame to say that it somehow pushes design, when you compare it to what you might do on the platform.

For some reason I can’t post in the forum, so I’ll put it here. My character has become a vampire . Can someone please tell me how this may effect said character? Many thanks.

in 48Hrs?! well no suprise there really. the game looks great! wish i wasnt so broke at the moment id go buy it lol

@14 There’s a fairly comprehensive guide to Skyrim vampirism here http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Vampirism_(Skyrim) covering all the pros and cons of the affliction, and how to cure it if you so desire.

Don’t worry, as long as you feed regularly, it’s fairly managable, and it’s easy to cure too. I caught it yesterday morning, spent the day having fun with it, and then cured it by the evening. Mostly because I didn’t like not being able to see my thieve’s hood! Having the disease makes your helmet not show, which is a little odd. Also never having stamina during the day was a hassle.

And well deserved, very happy for Bethesda. Skyrim is just that goddamn awesome.

Really awesome game!
The only thing about it i really don’t like. Is a thing a lot of games with Vikings or viking inspired humans, tend to have freaking horns in their helmets. Come on. How stupid are people if they really think there were horns in a vikings helmet? xD Yes, there were horns in some helmets, but these were first of all very few, and they were only from priests, that only wore them, at religious ceremonies.

@18 Come on now.

A) They’re Nords. Not nordic.

B) Most armor in the game looks like crap. I actually felt like stabbing myself when I put on elven armor.

C) Horns on helmets are fundamentally awesome. It’s not the game that’s wrong, it’s the vikings. I know it’s monday morning quarterbacking and all, but they still have absolutely no excuse for not putting horns on their helmets. It looks awesome.

It is kinda weird how a lot of the names and words in the game is just jumbled scandi-talk, at least if you’re used to scandi-talk.

@19
A)
True, but i think we can agree they were very much inspired by the Nordic history of awesomeness.

B)
I agree completely here.

C)
How about this, by putting horns on your helmet, you not only make the helmet a lot less impractical, you also aid the enemy in killing you a lot easier. By adding horns to a helmet, the enemy can just grab you by the horns, so to speak, and cut your head off. Remember, Vikings weren’t from America, even though they discovered it before some random dude who couldn’t find his way xD So they wouldn’t do something like that (Also, wth is monday morning quarterbacking? o.O)

There needs to be more armour visuals for the hero, yes.

@20 So since when were vikings afraid of being killed? If a guy is able to grab you by the horns, you’re obviously not fighting like a man!

That kind of pussy attitude is for francs and romans, man. Let them try to grab those horns, I double dare them.

Monday morning quarterbacking refers to second guessing the calls and plays of a football game on a Monday. Today it doesn’t mean quite as much, since football is occasionally also played on Mondays, but usually it would be on Saturdays for the college teams and Sundays for the franchise teams.

So telling people what they should’ve done after the fact.

@22
It isn’t about being afraid of getting killed. It is about thinking Why get killed when you can be the one killing?

@23 Which brings me back to my original point. Why think when you can have awesome horns on your helmet.

Check and mate. Farvel og tak, den herre.

@24
Why die when you can live and kill?
Prøv igen

There you go, thinking again. This is what is commonly referred to as fail.

Besides, the tooltip clearly states that a helmet with horns is better than helmets that have none.