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Three months after its “shock” shadowdrop on Xbox, PC, and PlayStation, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has topped 9 million gamers.
In a social media post today, Bethesda introduced that the sport had reached 9 million gamers alongside a humorous graphic that includes everybody’s favourite NPC:
Notably, this rely is just a participant rely, not a gross sales whole. Oblivion Remastered launched on Xbox Sport Cross Final, which means there are lots of subscribers who booted up the sport sooner or later with out explicitly paying for it.
Regardless of that, we do know that it is offered very effectively anyway. It massively outsold the unique Oblivion and was the best-selling sport of April within the U.S., and was nonetheless doing fairly all proper in June per Circana’s final report. The sport has since gotten a number of updates to enhance efficiency nad repair bugs, together with a current replace that solved a difficulty with the Darkish Brotherhood quest that was throwing off Oblivion lore nerds.
Nonetheless regardless of that, growth studio Virtuos laid off 270 workers earlier this month, citing a “rebelancing of roles throughout our studios and geographies.”
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