Yes, there are many loyal fans and customers to Skyrim but MW3 will be released three days before. The massive influx of people who will buy MW3 would probably weaken the sales of Skyrim since everyone would be playing it. Think about it, I don't know many people who are willing to spend 120$ for both games and that's not to say that obviously there are more MW3 fans due to the massive hype. How do you think it will fare?

It depends on how many people like both games.


Not to mention, whether or not they like Skyrim more.

Bethesda's not afraid of Modern Dwarfare 3. Two completely different audiences.

As a fan of both games I will still be getting Skyrim first. Purchase of other games will probably be pushed back for a while. Don't know if Skyrim sales will be affected, but they set the date so the should stick with it.



I wouldn't go that far. Some of us like more than one genre of game. Just like some who play MW1, 2, or 3 don't even play multiplayer (like me) while others buy the game strictly for it.

I'm not getting MW3, so no. Even if I liked/played MW, I'd still say no, because Skyrim will beat every game out there.

No, absolutely not.

The way I see it, both games have different fanbases entirely. Sure, there are a lot of Elder Scrolls fans who like COD and vice-versa... but i'm sure if they're really fans of both then they'll get around to buying both.

nothing could weaken the sales of skyrim

I'm selling Black Ops soon anyway, so I would probably end up paying around $90 for both.

I suspect that very few people that will actually spend $60 on the crap that is COD would play TES.

Wait ... Morrowind 3?

XDD

Modern Warfare 3. :thumbsup:

no it should be pulled forward to May 20th

Im 100% buying skyrim and super excited for it
MW3 though ... i am definatly waiting this time around to see online footage to see if the grenade launcher is still a major factor...

I KNOW skyrim will be epic but not sure about this years rehash of duty

Not so sure about that. We want Skyrim to be well developed.

Ive been waiting years for Skyrim, COD comes out every year so I don't give a damn about it.

I'm pretty sure we've been over this before, but these games sell to a completely different audience. Those who want to buy Skyrim will buy it anyways, and those who purchase COD games generally go for the latest and the greatest. I'm not in the least concerned and I hardly think 3 days in advance will do anything at all.

This, for the most part. I'll probably end up buying MW3 anyway but definitely not before Skyrim.

Didn't you do a similar thread to this like yesterday (I know you are not OP just saying)?

I agree with the OP as I have done critical approaches in video games studies and I see MW3 blowing everything else away in terms of sales.
The interest in MW3 is massive from the amount of various comments I have seen on different gaming sites. Skyrim is going to have a struggle
competing if they don't push the release forward. I know a lot of people who want both, but MW3 will win in their books because of the social aspect and
virtually unlimited online mode. Skyrim buyers are not a minority, but I'm betting there will more people interested in buying MW3 game over Skyrim.

While I am getting Skyrim because CoD is dead to me, I think Bethesda should seriously push the game forward a little. It looks virtually done now anyway.

MW1 was phenomenal, both online and offline. MW2 was phenomenal online, but took a left turn at Campy for the single player experience, and having an awkward pace seemingly designed by a 7year old with ADHD and having a seizure. Black Ops had one of the worst single player experiences in the first person perspective ever. Multiplayer just added a few maps to Infinity Ward's(now lolfired) amazing MW2. By that logic, cranking out annual iterations of what amounts to an equipment and map update for 60 freaking dollars, with a tacked on single player experience that exists only to boost gamerscore... sorry, but you have to be absolutely insane to buy into that trend, I seriously question the function of your brain, mostly because these FPS franchises are built on this whole Progression system, that you basically dump every year for new shineys.

Uh no they shouldn't push it back just because the most overated video game series of all time is being released in the same week. COD is stale, and old. Skyrim will prove to everyone in the industry that COD is overrated and a fraud.

Anybody who will buy Modern Warfare 3 and then completely forget about Skyrim's existence sounds like the exact same kind of demographic I never thought the Elder Scrolls was for, anyway.

We're sticking with 11.11.11, folks - Bethesda's intended it to be this way and it carries too much symbolic weight to change it now.

So if Im stupid because I like CoD, does that mean its a stupid game for stupid people? And if thats so, does it make Skyrim a stupid game because Ill get that too? Please help a stupid person understand your logic.

Here I was thinking different games are different and different people like different games for different reasons because... theyre different. Geez, Im stupid arnt I?

MW2 is widely regarded by CoD fans as a total mess. I like where Treyarch went with the story in BO. It was dark and the ending surprised me unlike the the others (still short though). I won't be buying MW3 because they are so similar now and it's getting tiring. I have to say though the lead MP designer for BO was so nice to me on twitter. I told him I was in hospital at the time (which I was) and he was going to come down and give me a free copy of the game before launch. Sadly I was too far away. I even asked him to make the bots available offline (which is major reason why I bought it) and he put it on his list and kept me updated. It was brought in on the second patch I think. Lovely man!... It's Activison who are the evil ones and give them crap all dev time. No wonder the games have fallen down a slope.

Skyrim pushed back because of cod? lol, If anything cod should be pushed back, cod comes out with a new game every year and people should be starting to realize that they don't put the time and effort into their games like they should.

Once it gets close to release for Skyrim, expect people to go crazy over it, while hearing about another cod game will just seem like old news.

Small chance MW3 actually comes out on that date

and of course not