Todd Howard, the enthusiastic head of Bethesda, has revealed that the beloved The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has shifted over 60 million units worldwide. The news comes after Mr. Howard gave gamers an in-depth look at their ambitious new video game project, Starfield. which is due out on Xbox and PC in September. If you’ve yet to buy it, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is available on the Nintendo Switch eShop and at retail.
Best-selling games of all-time
- Minecraft
- GTA V
- Tetris
- Wii Sports
- PUBG: Battlegrounds
- Mario Kart 8
- Skyrim
- Super Mario Bros.
- Red Dead Redemption 2
- The Witcher 3
This list has always been a bit dubious to me – Tetris includes many completely different versions of Tetris, Minecraft includes Java, Bedrock and other versions which are all quite different, GTA V includes the original and the remasters, same with Skyrim, Mario Kart 8 includes sales of the Deluxe port, Wii Sports I don’t think was ever sold on its own so literally entire consists of console pack-in sales etc. etc.
As ever with a list like this a lot of it is really in how you count it. I guess it’s fair to say though that one way or another, Skyrim has moved a lot of copies.
I guess you could count only the sales for Mario Kart Deluxe and it would remain on the spot, I mean, Wii U didn’t sell enough units to really move the gauge.
It moved about 8 million copies. And I think it was the best selling game on the console.
“Didn’t…really move the gauge”. It sold over 8 million copies. Any company would bite your hand off for that level of success. Plus Nintendo made even more money from selling the DLC.
you a #1 dedicated hater of gaming?
Wii Sports was sold separately and did quite well.
I mean they only have how many versions of Skyrim? Standard edition, Special edition, Legendary edition, Skyrim VR and The anniversary edition. Maybe eventually they can port or remaster Marrowind and/or Oblivion, or just continue nickel and dime Skyrim and milking it like a cash cow.
Switch accounts for less than 2% of that total.
Wii Sports should be completely removed from this list
Is it because it came with the console? But so did Super Mario Bros.
As many times Super Mario 64 been sold on N64, DS, Wii Eshope, Wii U Eshope and Switch Eshope, I’m surprised it isn’t on this list.
NGL I was surprised to see PUBG up there.
“7th best-selling game of all time”? I guess kids these days will buy just any game. Disgusting.