User blog comment:The Joker~/Is The Elder Scrolls series overrated?/@comment-66.183.57.184-20120920214631

You will never find a game like Skyrim, it is the top of a tier of it's own category. The only other game that really competes with TES in terms of gameplay and freedom is.. well... Fallout. Bethesda has a monopoly on games like TES. I believe when another company makes a game of better quality than TES, you will see TES try extremely hard to combat for their fans.

Same reason why CoD does so well is because it is the top of it's category: Military shooters. The only other competitor is BF3. If something other than BF or CoD comes out that is WAY better than BOTH, then you will see CoD die.