The publication date of Elder Scrolls 6 is still on the horizon

The biggest Elder Scrolls News of the Year have just been dropped: Bethesda Game Studios and Remaster professionals virtuoso Remastered Remastered oblivionThe fourth game in the action RPG series, and it’s out now. Long expected – and regularly leaked – the improved version of Elder Scrolls 4 Arrived to PC, Xbox Game Pass and PS5 with minimal fanfare, but all the hype.

And with that a burning question came: what’s going on with Elder Scrolls 6?

It was 19 years since the original publication of oblivion. Since the fifth sequel it has passed 14 years Skyrim. It’s 11 years since the start of Elder Scrolls Online. And it was almost seven years since Bethesda E3 (RIP) went and announced that it has developed that it has developed Elder Scrolls 6. It was a long time ago that someone entered a new patch of the fantasy continent from Tamriel.

Updates were only a few and far apart, and the rumor mill grinded something meaningful in the emptiness of Todd Howard (but he understands the pain of the fans). But here is what we know about Bethesda’s plans Elder Scrolls 6.

Elder Scrolls 6 has no publication date, but the timeline is not quite nebulous

Bethesda has officially dated the development Elder Scrolls 6 in the calendar. Howard said that the prioritization of Starfield ultimately to a delay in the Elder Scrolls 6Although the work continued during the development and start of this game. Thanks to the documents published during the FTC’s legal dispute against the Microsoft Activision Fusion, we know that the game had been up to date for two years for two years at the earliest.

The good news is that Elder Scrolls 6 is no longer the most long-term way-out project that Bethesda has in the pipeline. According to Howard during the press rounds for StarfieldIt is planned to publish Elder Scrolls 6 before A Fallout 5what is also in progress (albeit technically unannounced).

It is “difficult to imagine” Elder Scrolls 6 as Xbox exclusive, says Howard

Five years ago, before Microsoft developed into a massive publisher with a reach of the Core Xbox Console and Game Pass platform, Todd Howard could not imagine Elder Scrolls 6 Exclusive as Xbox. When Microsoft took over the Bethesda-Muttergesellschaft Zenimax Media in 2020, the manager clearly predicted the multi-platform, which has become the key to Microsoft’s strategy. There were no formal announcements about which platforms Elder Scrolls 6 Will Hit – a new generation of consoles seems likely at this point – but is based on the recent publication of Indiana Jones and the large group On PC, Xbox and PS5 you expect Bethesda to ensure that everyone plays the thing when the time has come.

How far is Elder Scrolls 6?

To commemorate Elder Scrolls’ 30th anniversary in March 2024, Bethesda released a loving news to the fans who were hidden in a small update Elder Scrolls 6The confirmation that it was still in progress: “Even now when we return to Tamriel and playing early builds, we filled with the same joy, excitement and promise of the adventure.”

In a recent interview, the former Bethesda animator Jeremy Bryant YouTuber Kiwi Talkz (via Gamesradar) said that the development time could be traced back to Howard, which controls the size of the Elder Scrolls team and the company increases with a slower acquisition. Due to the permissible strategy and time, Bryant did not expect the studio to grow a lot just because there was a huge open-world tede pole on the horizon.

“Todd has the vision for the game he wants to make and he knows that he needs X number of people to do it,” said Bryant.

A leading theory: Elder Scrolls 6 takes place in High Rock

There are only a few details about the status of the game, but it is even less clear what can be expected from the older Scrolls franchise in relation to history. A few clues that have decreased over the years indicate that the drama will develop in Tamriel’s northern region.

The original teaser for The Elder Scrolls 6 Adult oceans, mountains and forests that lend our local Skyrim Brat-Brat-Sleuth to conclude that the backdrop was along the North Kambria plateau.

The theory gained more traction after all things, a Starfield Teaser supporters. What at first glance was a scratch in a constellation dashboard, saw an island nearby-a one that looked terribly like the canon cartography by Elder Scrolls.

will Elder Scrolls 6 Do you go to high rock? One day we will know more. Just not now.