develop 100 UK RETAIL REVENUE IN 2011
£41.20m
BETHESDA GAME STUDIOS«
08 ABOUT
SKYRIM’S SISTER REGIONS IN FICTIONAL TAMRIEL Morrowind • Black Marsh • Cyrodiil • Valenwood • Hammerfell
THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM
STUDIO’S 2011 BESTSELLERS XBOX 360
PLAYSTATION 3 PC
TOTAL
THE ELDER SCROLLS IV: OBLIVION GOTY
FALLOUT 3: GAME OF THE YEAR EDITION
FALLOUT 3
THE ELDER SCROLLS IV: OBLIVION
XBOX 360 TOTAL
XBOX 360 PC
PLAYSTATION 3 PC
PLAYSTATION 3 TOTAL
PLAYSTATION 3 XBOX 360 PC
TOTAL
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS NOV 2011 £25.10m BETHESDA SOFTWORKS NOV 2011 £11.51m BETHESDA SOFTWORKS NOV 2011 £3.54m £40.15m
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS OCT 2007
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS OCT 2009 BETHESDA SOFTWORKS OCT 2009 BETHESDA SOFTWORKS OCT 2009
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS DEC 2007 £0.19m BETHESDA SOFTWORKS SEP 2007
£0.49m £0.17m
£0.23m £0.07m
£0.16m £0.09m £0.42m
BETHESDA SOFTWORKS NOV 2008 £0.06m BETHESDA SOFTWORKS NOV 2008 £0.04m BETHESDA SOFTWORKS NOV 2008 £0.00m £0.11m
Founded: 1986 (Acquired in 1999) In-house (Owned by ZeniMax Media) Location: Rockville, Maryland, USA
www.bethsoft.com
Bethesda is the highest-rated studio on the list that isn’t part of a listed company. Bethesda Game Studios has
worked on 30 games, but last year’s Skyrim was its defining moment, the epic RPG not just being a commercial smash-hit, but doing so at a curious time. It arrived the same week as Modern Warfare 3. While most other publishers had moved their games away from Activision’s, Bethesda stayed close and offered a refreshing alternative to the modern day epic Call of Duty. Of course, Skyrimwould have
sold any time of year – its inherent quality gives it a Metacritic in the 90s and the Elder Scrolls fanbase is not to be underestimated. Indeed, the next step for Bethesda is converting them into monthly subscribers to its new MMO, Elder Scrolls Online.
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