Skyrim Shatters Concurrent Player Count Record On Steam

by Mike Bendel November 11, 2011 @ 4:59 pm


Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim might just be the most popular PC title to grace Steam — ever. The concurrent player count, as of today, peaked at an impressive 231,593.

We’ve never seen it reach that high. The closest contender is probably Portal 2, which peaked at just over 90K in release week. This is a significant achievement, and makes us wonder what the total sales count stacks up to.

Generally, you can multiply the concurrent player count by 10 to get a rough estimate of total sales, which means Skyrim may have sold around 2 million copies on PC alone. If it did similar numbers on consoles — well, Bethesda must be very pleased indeed.

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