Psssh. If you can afford a boat... ;D

I myself am waiting on E3 and the fan interview to get here. Then if nothing pops up that makes it a day one deal breaker, I'll pre-order the CE (once that gets announced as well).

I've never pre-ordered a game because sometimes certain stores for various reasons don't get their stock on time for release date. I don't mind driving to a few different games vendors if necessary to get Skyrim on 11.11.11 (CE and I'll probably get the hardcover guidebook too)

I think more people want less bugs and the collector's edition.

Well, with Oblivion I bought the collectors edition, then only bought SI and KoTN (disc edition with the smaller DLCs) when they were marked down in the local brick/mortar stores (or maybe Amazon, I forget). There was one other mod (Fighter's Stronghold?) that was free online at one time, that completed the pack - no GOTY edition necessary and I was able to enjoy my shiny box, map and trinkets at launch.

I don't think opposition to DLCs is a reason to delay getting Skyrim. You can still have your cake and eat it too, simply don't buy the DLCs till later when either they are bundled on disc, or like Steam do, are discounted sometime.

Anyway, in response to the OP, a) I'm on PC not Xbox (as would many Elder Scrolls players be I imagine given the modding, a significant minority of players at the least) and B) I'm waiting for the collectors edition. Admittedly, c) my pre-order time may be dictated by optimal euro-pound exchange rates (UK online retailers) - if it seemed really great, I'd pre-order then, otherwise wait in hope of a clearly better rate at some time (one can sometimes have a good rate last only a day or two).

I noticed you said the statistics are based off of 360 sales. Im sure the most pre-orders were from PC players

There's no reason to pre-order if there isn't a pre-order bonus. Heck, when I bought Oblivion I had the pre-order, and the disk was faulty. Luckily I had gotten the disk insurance thing, but why mess with that if you can wait a week and get the game twenty bucks off on Craigslist when some kid doesn't like it?

I almost never pre-order games. But when I do, it's because one of the following:

- The game is cheaper than the retailbox
- It's some sort of 'special edition' that's guaranteed to be sold-out/rare in retail
- one or more pre-order DLC's

Oh, and the game HAS to be 'Gone Gold'. I never order a game before it's finished. It feels stupid to order something that doesn't even exist yet. And the preorder-price may go down before launch anyway, so why waste money months in advance?

Why the heck would I preorder now? We have almost half a year left and we dont know about collectors editions or preoder bonuses.

2 reasons.

1: Waiting for Collector's Edition.

2: Since I live in Denmark, I don't really want to pre-order it on Amazon or anything, because I want to be SURE I get it ON the date.

We're all waiting for the collector's edition(s).

I never paid a store to pre-order from them :blink: They get the money when I get the game.