The sixth chapter in the “Elder Scrolls” franchise was first announced back at E3 2018. The announcement came seven years after the fifth entry, “Skyrim,” scored a release in 2011.
Seven years on since that announcement, all we have to show for it is… nothing. There have been no real major updates or insights into when or how the game is coming.
The closest we had to any kind of update took place two years ago when “Starfield” released and Bethesda’s head of publishing Pete Hines indicated the next “Elder Scrolls” was still in early development and hadn’t gotten very far.
This week, while promoting the “Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition,” Bethesda game director Todd Howard confirmed to GQ that the game is “still a long way off.”
Howard says, “I’m preaching patience. I don’t want fans to feel anxious.” He also says they have no plans to announce any kind of release until much closer to the actual date:
“I like to just announce stuff and release it. My perfect version – and I’m not saying this is going to happen – is that it’s going to be a while and then, one day, the game will just appear.”
Howard adds that Bethesda Game Studios has “hundreds of people on Fallout right now, with 76 and some other things we’re doing,” the ‘other things’ expected to be a major remaster of “Fallout 3” akin to this year’s “The Elder Scrolls Oblivion: Remastered”.
He also adds that “The Elder Scrolls 6 is the everyday thing” he’s currently working on, so things are progressing – albeit slowly.
