Oblivion Remastered achieves the 3rd biggest PlayStation 5 launch of 2025

Following its surprise release last week, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has seemingly only benefited from its Shadow-drop strategy, seeing well over 200,000 concurrent players on Steam alone. Being available on PlayStation for the first time ever, the game is performing extremely well on the platform – currently sitting as the 3rd-biggest launch of the year so far.

As reported by the PlayStation-focused publication TrueTrophies, Oblivion Remastered has so far been a huge hit on PS5.

Based on data from both TrueTrophies and GameTrends, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has managed to have the 3rd biggest launch week for any game in 2025 – landing behind Assassin’s Creed Shadows and Monster Hunter Wilds. In fact, according to the report, Oblivion was just 4.7% shy from taking Shadows’ 2nd spot.

Of course, given its surprise release, Oblivion was unlikely to outpace Monster Hunter Wilds – especially as the latter sold 8 million copies in its first 72 hours. That said, landing at 3rd place is highly respectable, especially as the game had little to no official marketing leading up to its release.

It will be interesting to see how Oblivion (among others) continue to perform over the coming months – and whether the impending GTA VI will suck all the air out of the industry upon its release.

KitGuru says: Have you been playing Oblivion Remastered? What do you think so far? Are you surprised to see Assassin’s Creed Shadows beat it? Let us know down below.

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