![]() In 2013 they stated that 20 million copies had been sold (which would include PC). One of the only real specific, and accurate, figures we can rely on is Bethesda in late 2011 saying they'd shipped (not sold) 10 million copies to retail (which excludes PC). I think it's fairly safe to say that those numbers are unlikely. There are lots of reasonably sized non-English Skyrim modding sites also hosting SkyUI, and there's probably at least a small number of modders that have never installed that specific mod. The total modding userbase is also going to be well upwards of 8 million. And no, like I mentioned, the download numbers are unique users - not total downloads. It sold in the ballpark of ~25 million, with a probable plurality on PC - so somewhere in the ballpark of 10 million there. I'm only talking about "Skyrim", the original game. If you're not familiar with the series, those aren't like 'game of the year' type collections, but distinct incompatible binaries. It's like saying "Mario" has sold a billion copies. He was mixing all the different versions of Skyrim (Skyrim, Skyrim VR, Skyrim Special Edition) and calling them simply Skyrim as a whole. That was an offhand comment from Todd Howard who was being a bit misleading. It didn't sell anywhere remotely near 60 million. I mean in games like Skyrims you have literally entirely new and complete games built as 'mods.' Some even get their own independent releases, like Enderal, which many would claim is better than Skyrim itself. That results in more technical issues, and less impressive mods. On the other hand I'd completely agree with you for games where modding isn't so well supported. ![]() Not only does PC seem to be their best selling platform, but people are largely buying Skyrim to mod it, and Bethesda wanted to try to start taking a cut of it. That is almost certainly a vast majority of PC users using that single mod! This is also probably why Bethesda tried to make 'paid mods' a thing, and bring them over to consoles. It's been downloaded by 6.5 million unique users from a single site hosting it, another 1.5 million on the Steam workshop, and who knows how many others from everywhere else. SkyUI is a single extremely popular mod for Skyrim. Games like Skyrim are essentially just modding sandboxes, and you can measure this at least reasonably objectively. ![]()
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