I'm really interested to see what Skyrim's sales numbers will be compared to Oblivion and Fallout 3.

no way i think somewhere tod mentioned something about making a elderscroll game for the new consoles

what about beating COD Modern Warfare 2's sales. best selling xbox game of all time. buy at least 10 copies per person.

THIS!!!

It's not like they had the whole story planned out when they started making the Elder Scrolls games...

I know it won't outsell CoD. I'm more interested to see how it fares against Oblivion/Fallout 3, since Beth is more well known now. They're also sinking tons of money into Skyrim. Pete said Skyrim's budget is "by far" their largest budget ever.

And revisited provinces, all of Tamriel in one game, mysterious Akavir.

i would think it should beat Oblivion/Fallout 3's sales. U have a point vs Past Games.
Still i would laugh my ass off if Skyrim beat MW2's sales.

Lol, no.

TES:VI will probably be Elsweyr.

Do you mean MW3? I thought Black Ops outsold MW2?

Exactly. In my book, 3 years of development time and the largest budget they've ever had equates to the best Elder Scrolls game ever. With that in mind, Bethesda will definitely continue making ES games until the fanbase dies (which won't happen).

wait ur right Black Ops did sell more than MW2.
But then again bethesda's fanbase keeps growing and the gaming market keeps growing so Skyrim could beat MW2 and maybe black Ops.

I doubt it, why stop, its the face of Bethesda?

I think they should really change gears and go to Akavir for the next game.

no, i really don't see that being the case, first to cast aside your prophecy thoughts, there has been 7 elder scrolls games, that kinda makes you think bethesda hasn't just stuck to the whole prophecy story line. second its their most popular and biggest profit making series, TES technically is the back bone of the company profit wise, it puts them in a good position to design other games without breaking the company. Third if they ever did decide to end the series, I think any hardcoe fan of the series would agree that they should end it on a fresh set of next gen consoles and hardware so they can really set the game ahead of it's time and make its value last for sometime, and the game could really go out with a bang.... oh and forth it's my alltime favorite game series, if they stop making it, it would ruin games for more, no other developer goes as far as bethesda does, i would have to buy out the company and take the company wheel and turn it right back in the direction of TES

Why do people go "Oh wow! I never would have guessed! All of those events of the previous games, they were part of an overaching plot, a grand scheme prophecised, a web woven cunningly from the very beginning and finally brought to a close with this final ultimate game!"

No. Bethesda didn't plan this. Do you know how easy it is to do this? You can take basically ANY series in fiction and say "The ancient prophecies predicted this and this event in the series would all lead up to one final event." It's not that hard.

I mean, Oblivion was a pretty "final" seeming ending, but we still got Skyrim after that. The last 3 games were all in a short time span under the rule of Uriel Septim VII, and in Oblivion, he, and his son, the last of the Septims, are both killed during a great Daedric invasion of Nirn, which is a pretty epic event, and ending the Septim line once and for all, thus causing the Empire to crumble. Now that sounds pretty final, doesn't it? And yet, now we have Skyrim, which also sounds final, but will not be.

agreed

Well garsh, if I had a spare $1 billion lying around I would give it all to Bethesda to make a TES that encompasses all of Tamriel. Sometime before Oblivion. Wouldn't that be swell? Swell indeed.

It could only work on PCs and consoles w/ large HDDs, though. Hrm.

And then we go to Akavir

Elsweyr needs to be made yet,

We could also see Hammerfell and High Rock again, since they did only a small part of those and only with incredibly basic technology and design.

Akavir makes no sense at this point. Yah sure in the future after Every INCH of Tamriel has been covered

Ending a highly profitable series with a massive following that has no good reason to be terminated? Ha, that's a good one.

Oh wait, you're serious. Well then let me laugh even harder.

Plus Todd was not around when Arena was made, so they were forced to fit the plot of that game into Skyrim's

Forced isn't the right word, really. They've drawn on Arena in the past. Caius Cosades is recalled to Cyrodiil because of concerns about the legitimacy of Uriel VII's heirs, saying that some nobles believe they were switched out with doppelgangers by Jagar Tharn way back when. (The Mythic Dawn nipped that one in the bud, but the point still stands.)

they should have one on the next new systems