The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered Massively Outsold the Original Oblivion in the U.S. in its First Month

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered launched successful a not-so-surprising shadiness driblet astatine the process extremity of the month, and successful conscionable 1 week managed to vastly outsell the archetypal Oblivion's archetypal 15 months connected the market.

This comes from Circana, which reports that Oblivion was not conscionable the best-selling crippled successful the U.S. for the period of April successful dollar sales, and the 3rd best-selling crippled of 2025 truthful far, it besides sold much units successful April than the archetypal Oblivion managed successful its archetypal 15 months, and brought successful much wealth than the archetypal Oblivion did successful its archetypal 14 months. While that's admittedly not a immense daze fixed the massively larger instal basal Oblivion sold into present compared to 2006, it's inactive an unthinkable feat.

The remainder of April's apical 20 contiguous immoderate fascinating twists connected the accustomed suspects we spot connected the charts. In 2nd spot for the period was Forza Horizon 5, up from No.42 past period owed to its PS5 launch. Following it is MLB: The Show 25 astatine No.3, and past Minecraft astatine No.4, up from No.11 and astir surely riding a precocious from the merchandise of the Minecraft movie earlier successful April.

At No.5 was past month's winner, Assassin's Creed: Shadows, and it's followed by Indiana Jones and the Great Circle astatine No.6. It's up from No.118 past period acknowledgment to, similar Forza, its PS5 release. As Circana expert Mat Piscatella notes, 4 of the apical 5 — and 5 of the apical 7 — best-selling games of the period connected PlayStation platforms were published by Microsoft.

It's besides worthy pointing retired that The Last of Us: Part 2 jumped from No.23 to No.13 this month, perchance owed to the 2nd play of the TV show. And portion Schedule 1 doesn't look connected the income charts, it did fertile No.1 successful U.S. full monthly progressive users connected Steam (Call of Duty topped the MAU charts connected PlayStation and Xbox).

If you're an RPG fan, you mightiness beryllium wondering wherever the heck Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is. Per Piscatella, steadfast Kepler Interactive doesn't stock integer information with Circana, and frankincense Expedition 33's integer income aren't counted and apt resulted successful it not appearing anyplace connected the chart. Piscatella did archer maine that its carnal income ranked it among the apical 35 best-sellers successful April, No.22 connected PlayStation, and it was 19th successful monthly progressive users connected Xbox and 21st connected Steam. "It released towards the extremity of the month, and started a spot dilatory (player number rankings person improved each week since motorboat done May 10)," helium said. "All of those bits bespeak a precise palmy effect for a crippled of its type.

"It's a crippled that was been incredibly good received by the enthusiast audience, but by the extremity of the period had not crossed implicit to the mainstream successful a important way. We'll person to spot what May ends up looking similar (with much carnal copies entering the marketplace and connection of rima pushing the crippled to a bigger audience)."

Overall, April user spending connected video games was down 3% year-over-year to $4.1 billion, with contented spending down 2%. Non-mobile subscription spending and console integer premium downloads were up, but each different contented segments were down. And accessories spending was down 2%.

Hardware was besides down 8%, reaching the lowest monthly hardware dollar income full reached successful the U.S. marketplace since July 2020. The PS5 was erstwhile again the best-selling console successful some portion and dollar income contempt dropping 5% from past year. The Switch dropped 37%, but the Xbox Series console really grew its income year-over-year by 8%.

April 2025 U.S. Top 20 Best-Selling Games:

1. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: Remastered (NEW)
2. Forza Horizon 5
3. MLB: The Show 25
4. Minecraft*
5. Assassin's Creed: Shadows
6. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
7. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
8. WWE 2K25
9. NBA 2K25
10. PGA Tour 2K25
11. Monster Hunter: Wilds
12. Split Fiction
13. The Last of Us: Part 2
14. EA Sports FC 25
15. Grand Theft Auto V
16. Red Dead Redemption 2
17. The Elder Scrolls: Online
18. Elden Ring
19. Kingdom Come II: Deliverance
20. Hogwarts Legacy

* Indicates that immoderate oregon each integer income are not included successful Circana's data. Some publishers, including Nintendo, bash not stock definite integer information for this report.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. You tin find her posting connected BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].