User blog comment:The Milkman/Skyrim's Smorgasbord of Shortcomings/@comment-5264386-20120814101447/@comment-4002748-20120814160759

@The Joker, he said "because of it's myriad of features and improvents over Oblivion". The OP's statement seems more plausable if you take out the "and". Lets be serious, it had tons of features (irrespective of being a sequel to Oblivion) which has been (and still is) a very powerful selling point and I am certain that it's improvements over Oblivion factored into it's success too.