I live in Australian, sydney and i went to EB and ask the guy in the shop when oblivion would be released and he looked it on on the computer and he said november the 1st!!
He also said that the specs on it were very high, he said he had a 256 grafix card and he needed to upgrade to use it with full grafix. He said some 256's will run it.

Hmm, something I've been wondering... after you've got your gold master DVD, how long does it take to go through the whole process of burning M-thousand copies, boxing them up, and distributing them to all corners of the earth?

Because I'd imagine that the process would take at least a month. And, presumably once the gold master leaves Bethesda's doors, the schedule would be pretty concrete - no more open-ended unknown-duration tasks of fixing bugs or tweaking graphics, or anything, just good old logistics.

And, once Bethesda knows a concrete release date, is there any reason they wouldn't publicise it?

So, given all that, I can't see them announcing anything closer than a whole month into the future from the date they actually make the announcement. So, 1st of November sounds highly dubious, given that it's already the 11th of October.

Sorry, but thats what he said.
Maby he was rong.

That's ok, I was just saying

Although, if anyone knows the answer to my question about how long that pipeline is, typically, I'd be keen to know.

one month is very close to that. i doubt oblivion being out before the end of november

EB Games also used to say that Oblivion will be released in May 2005.

In other words, I recommed waiting until a more specific date is given on the official game site. So, until then, the release date is still "Holidays 2005".

And I'm definitely no expert, but I'd say it's about at least 3-4 weeks between the game going gold and the actual release.