{"id":86155,"date":"2026-07-17T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86155"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:45:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:45:37","slug":"the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-officially-joins-the-witcher-3-on-65-million-units-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=86155","title":{"rendered":"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Officially Joins The Witcher 3 on 65 Million Units Sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim\">The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim<\/a> has officially crossed the 65 million units sold milestone, joining fellow fantasy role-playing game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt\">The Witcher 3<\/a> as one of the top 10 best-selling games of all time.<\/p>\n<p>Confirmation comes from Bethesda Game Studios chief Todd Howard, who today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bethesda-reveals-roadmap-the-elder-scrolls-6-fallout-5-obsidians-new-fallout-game-several-remaster-projects-and-more-all-confirmed\">outlined the company\u2019s lineup of games following Xbox\u2019s latest round of layoffs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Skyrim launched in 2011 and sold over 3.5 million units in 48 hours. Over the past 15 years it\u2019s been ported to pretty much every platform capable of running it, with years of mods helping to keep the game feeling fresh.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"all-female-marriage-partners-in-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim\" data-value=\"all-female-marriage-partners-in-the-elder-scrolls-v-skyrim\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Xbox boss Asha Sharma <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/asha_shar\/status\/2078119482204270711\">added<\/a> that with 65 million units sold, Skyrim has become one of the 10 best-selling games of all time. Fallout 4, meanwhile, has crossed 35 million units sold, joining the top 25. Starfield, BGS\u2019 third game franchise, has had 17 million players, but we don\u2019t have a sales figure. Instead, Sharma noted that Starfield was about to cross the 1 billion hours played mark.<\/p>\n<p>BGS is currently focused on getting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-elder-scrolls-vi\">The Elder Scrolls VI<\/a> out the door, although it is reportedly at least two years away despite being announced in 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/fallout-5\">Fallout 5<\/a>, meanwhile, has entered pre-production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has officially crossed the 65 million units sold milestone, joining fellow fantasy role-playing game The Witcher 3 as one of the top 10 best-selling games of all time. Confirmation comes from Bethesda Game Studios chief Todd Howard, who today outlined the company\u2019s lineup of games following Xbox\u2019s latest round of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":86157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86159,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86155\/revisions\/86159"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}