When Bethesda Game Studios gave us one of gaming history's most head-turning shadow drops with the launch of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered a single day after its announcement, the excitement was palpable from role-playing enthusiasts across the globe. Financial analysis quickly backed up the severity of that excitement, with Oblivion Remastered selling more copies in 12 days than the 2006 original did in 15 months.
A month prior to that concrete sales-based data, Bethesda themselves dropped the mic with the revelation that four million people had played Oblivion Remastered less than a week after its release. Now, we have the next big player-count update from the folks behind The Elder Scrolls, (modern) Fallout, and the sort-of-struggling Starfield.
Elden Ring Nightreign's next update will enable two-player multiplayer, after duos struggled to find a third player.
In an impressively straightforward Twitter post, Bethesda has revealed a tally of nine million players in total. The number will, of course, continue to rise in the months and years to come, and I really ought to emphasize the fact that this is player count, rather than total sales. But for a game that's bound to thrive...
