April was a strong month for Xbox and Microsoft, with Xbox Game Studios published and developed games dominating the monthly download charts for PlayStation 5 players in the United States, Canada and the EU, and according to Circana sales data, its recently released The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered has skyrocketed to becoming the third best-selling game for 2025 so far in the United States.
In the PlayStation Blog’s monthly download charts post, the same three games take either first, second or third place in the US/Canada and the EU, with The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, Minecraft, and Forza Horizon 5 at the top of the charts. In the EU, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is also in the top five, while it falls just outside the top five in the US/Canada in sixth place.
Today on BlueSky, Circana’s executive director and video game industry analyst Mat Piscatella reported that in just one week on the market, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered sold so well that it’s already the third best-selling game in the US behind Monter Hunter Wilds in first place and Assassin’s Creed Shadows in second.
Xbox’s change in strategy to publish its games on all platforms instead of trying to pull more players to its own devices and services with exclusive first-party titles might not be popular among diehard Xbox fans, but it’s a strategy that seems to be working, and it doesn’t look like it’ll be going away anytime soon.
And there’s no better time for its software sales to pick up, since Xbox recently announced significant price increases for its hardware, accessories, and future software releases, starting later this year.
