The Elder Scrolls 6 Isn’t Coming Anytime Soon
Fans have been waiting for more information on The Elder Scrolls VI after Bethesda officially announced the game at E3 2018. But according to Bethesda marketing boss Pete Hines and ZeniMax Online Studios game director Matt Firor, the game might not be released until the next console generation.
“The easiest thing is look at how it was announced; it was Starfield and then [Elder Scrolls 6],” Firor said. “You can go back and count the years between Bethesda Game Studios releases, and you’ll get the idea that [The Elder Scrolls 6 is] not coming anytime soon.”
“I don’t even know what the world is going to be like when it comes out; there will be a different console generation by then, I’m sure,” he added. “Who knows. But I know we’re free and clear for a long time.”
Hines said that The Elder Scrolls VI is going to be”big” and “ambitious,” although he avoided getting into specifics. In fact, he stressed that the announcement was mainly to show fans that they hand’ forgotten about The Elder Scrolls.
“[The Elder Scrolls VI] is big and it’s ambitious, but also … the most important thing to underscore is that the timeline between products that you get from BGS is not any different than it has been historically just because we’ve talked about two games after Fallout 76,” he said. “I try really hard to manage people’s expectations. It’s not like ‘Fallout 76 this year, Starfield next year, and then TES6 the year after.’ The timeline isn’t any different. What’s different is just trying to be transparent and say, ‘Don’t freak out, the next thing we’re doing is single-player [in Starfield], [and] we are making TES6.”