The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Reaches 9 Million Players

Three months after its “surprise” shadowdrop on Xbox, PC, and PlayStation, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has topped nine million players.

In a social media post today, Bethesda announced that the game had reached 9 million players alongside a humorous graphic featuring everyone’s favorite NPC:

Notably, this count is only a player count, not a sales total. Oblivion Remastered launched on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, meaning there are a lot of subscribers who booted up the game at some point without explicitly paying for it.

Despite that, we do know that it’s sold very well anyway. It massively outsold the original Oblivion and was the best-selling game of April in the U.S., and was still doing pretty all right in June per Circana’s last report. The game has since gotten multiple updates to improve performance nad fix bugs, including a recent update that solved an issue with the Dark Brotherhood quest that was throwing off Oblivion lore nerds.

However despite that, development studio Virtuos laid off 270 staff earlier this month, citing a “rebelancing of roles across our studios and geographies.”

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