Bethesda explains why The Elder Scrolls VI is not under development

A sixth entry in the series is coming, but don't expect it soon--and here's why.

[TheOptimist]

Because they are busy milking Skyrim to death.

[chrisx]

You beat me to it

[thekhurg]

Or they know that they can't match the talent that has gone into recent open world games like Witcher 3 and Zelda. Because their studio is largely just modders from the ES community. The bulk of them have never actually developed a game, they've just been working with the same engine since Morrowind and doing large "mods" for each release.

Hell, their animations have barely changed since Oblivion, and haven't changed at all since Skyrim (this includes Fallout 3 & 4).

No matter what "reasons" they give, it's really because they know they can't deliver something people won't chuckle at like most did with Fallout 4.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@thekhurg-

ok bud

https://www.gamespot.com/ar...

[Skull521]

I'd be a little bummed if we don't see ES6 this console generation. I think with the design of XBOX we are going to see a generation as long as the last one though, probably why Microsoft made it so damn powerful.

[zombiewombie]

You beat me to saying you beat me to it to the guy that beat us to it.

[b163o1]

I'm calling bull, they're developing it, i have no proof, but look at FO4 they announced it and released it later that year. Bethesda aren't going to announce anything as big as ESVI until they're in the final push. Kudos to them cause i hate when something is announced and comes out a year or two after...

[Relientk77]

Can't wait for Skyrim to re-release for the 27th time

[AzubuEntus]

On a serious note, supposedly the next TES game will be located in the Khajit land or Argonian land.

[Prince_TFK]

Coming soon on a microwave.

[conanlifts]

Well give it a few more years and the such version will be alne to run on a mobile phone. Maybe the S11/S12 or equivalent.

[ZaWarudo]

Can't wait for Skyrim 2: Electric Boogaloo.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Different team. They likely have a port team set up to do that. The main teams almost never actually do those games.

I'm doubtful that they are "not under development" as they stated the same thing about Fallout 4.

They want to pretend they didn't even start, so they can have a E3 showing its coming in the fall like Fallout 4.

[PiNkFaIrYbOi]

Don't forget about TESO as well.

[nX]

"They didn't want to be the developer that was just Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Fallout for the rest of their development careers."

So instead they do shit like Wolfenstein or Evil Within? Big mistake.

[SCW1982]

Wolfenstein and Evil Within are freaking rad, and made by two very different studios to Bethesda studios proper. Your comment makes no sense

[_-EDMIX-_]

Agreed.

Do you know just how many dumb folks on N4G legit don't even know WHO MAKES THEIR GAMES?

I literally read an article the other day on here with someone saying Bioware learned from Mass Effect to make Anthem and the comments had to correct them on that it was a DIFFERENT TEAM.

THIS is the level of slow you have on here. I mean, at this rate he might as well believe EA is just one HUGE TEAM lol That is one of my biggest pet peeves when someone makes a comment about game based on publisher and not team not knowing that they have many teams.

[nX]

I was not saying they developed them, but Bethesda is the publisher who wastes resources on those projects that could be used for TES and Fallout.

[C4rnos]

nX..

"Wasting" their resources on great games and developers, good one.. next you'll be saying they wasted resources on Dishonored, Prey, Doom even..

[warriorcase]

Wolfenstien is made by machine games and evil within is made by tango gameworks

[_-EDMIX-_]

? Who is "they"? smh.

THIS is why I say some of you need to educate yourselves on the industry. How can you make a point on something you are also uneducated on?

Bethesda is saying that as a developer, they PUBLISH those games. MachineGames makes Wolfenstein and Tango Gameworks does Evil Within.

So no, "instead", not even the same team.

Bethesda teh developer is not making those games, they are likely working on Elder Scrolls VI, rumored new IP and ESO, also note their team is like 3 different teams.

This is one of the situations where what you don't know, very much can hurt you.

[dmonee]

Don't forget, that these projects/games can also get outsourced to different contractors as well. Especially if they are trying to get a game out by a certain release date. Add that to even MORE people that work on these things.

[nX]

I'm not sure who needs the education here but it's clearly YOU who doesn't seem to understand that the resources Bethesda invests into Wolfenstein and all those other mediocre games would be much smarter spent on TES and Fallout. The developers just do what the publisher tells them to and from a pure business standpoint it would be smarter to make these devs work on projects that have some real financial impact. If you look at Bethesdas last 5 years you could easily wonder which of these games actually broke even, let alone made money.

[Dragonscale]

@nx, but if they only invested in those two games that would be a pretty poor portfolio.

[_-EDMIX-_]

@nx-man dear God you seriously need to educate yourself on this business, I'm not even saying that to be facetious or mean I literally seriously mean read on this business because your comments are coming from a place that don't really understand the relationship between contracted Developers.

Their situation with those developers are contract-based Bethesda does not own Tango Games. You have to understand that Shinji mikami had a team in an idea to make Evil Within Bethesda was simply the publisher that was chosen, if he wanted to he actually could have went to another publisher.

I mean the fact that you don't even understand the relationship between those two and you're confusing Bethesda as being the owner of that company even more so further shows you probably don't really understand what you're talking about.

At the end of the day it's best to just let this go I'm not really sure you get what's happening to really make a comment on it.

I mean you don't even know the budgets of those games to even say they didn't break even for god sakes they're getting sequels that's enough to tell you clearly they made enough money to Warrant a continuation to those series....

@drag-don't waste your time I think it's likely a kid or a teenager and they don't really understand the process.

[AZRoboto]

You quoted the perfect sentence but your comment ruined it. That's what you go with, when at E3 all they (Bethesda, not id) announce are:
- Skyrim Switch with motion controls
- Skyrim VR
- Fallout 4 VR

... da fuq, Bethesda? Like a drunk guy slurring that he really didn't drink as he downs another shot.

[C4rnos]

If you knew anything about Bethesda, you'd know that 1) it takes 3-4 years per game, and 2) they only announce the game the same year they release it.

With that knowledge we can be pretty confident next E3 they'll announce something big, this year was about ID and Tango, next will be the dev team at Bethesda.

[on_line_forever]

if they want to develop The Elder Scrolls VI some day i hope they make the character movement and attack style like dark souls 3 , i want special game play like from software do with there games

[Dragonscale]

Sorry but Doom was awesome.

[-Foxtrot]

Course it is...you'd be a fool to believe that their biggest franchise is not

[_-EDMIX-_]

Fox, Fox.....smh, too many dumb people on this site. You better BELIEVE many fools think its not happening.

If Fallout 4 can MOVE gangbusters, TEVI is a damn given that its being made.

I don't even get how some are SO SLOW AS TO REALLY BELIEVE ITS NOT!

Be like "Bethesda said no, they can't lie bro"

[MatrixxGT]

And they denied Fallout 4 for how long?? Till damn near release day. TES6 is being made but they have a pretty good sealed ship over there.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Agreed.

We had so much info on Fallout 4, that was going to be in Boston, about a Man or Woman looking for their son.

Whats funny, is even fans doubt the rumors cause it went on FOR YEARS! So at some point its like "awww Fallout 4 isn't coming this year or being announced"

and then BAM! lol

SO we know they are working on it and I think it makes their press events even that much more epic. You know what you are seeing will be yours by fall. Fallout 4 damn near broke RECORDS with that marketing method, Elder Scrolls VI is going to destroy those records!

[ZaWarudo]

Would like to see them do a new IP in the style of TES and Fallout 3/NV/4

[_-EDMIX-_]

Rumor is, thats happening also, but TES VI is still happening. They are more then 1 team

[KillZallthebeast]

Thats cool and all, but those are your two biggest IPs. Why not make a whole new open world IP if you don't want to make a new one of those.

[dcbronco]

So they got a case of "Bungie fever". They shouldn't be forced to do the same games over and over. We are talking about 6.

[Stormswrath4]

So tired of waiting . I want the next elder scrolls game so bad but I'm starting to get burnt out thinking about it. Bethesda do have the right to do what they want but that doesn't make it any easier keep hearing about a new one and how it's not being made and how another version of skyrim is coming instead of a new entry into the series.

[Mulletino]

I literally counted down for a whole year for skyrim. Checked n4g like 3 times a day for "leaked info" haha.

[JokerBoy422]

Because theyre too busy trying to get Skyrim running on you microwave. E3 2018!

[TXIDarkAvenger]

Honestly, it's probably because of The Elder Scrolls Online.

[fluxmulder]

I think they need to develop a new engine before they bother making a new game.

[CrystalFantasy]

Bethesda are like the Republicans of the gaming industry. Smh.

[Nucler100]

Welll that's fine, but people are always going to remember you for those games regardless. That's a testament to how strong they are as a series. Go here or go there, people will be waiting for Elder Scrolls 6.

[OhReginald]

because obligatory $60 skyrim every year. that's why.

I mean damn skyrim isnt even THAT great....Witcher 3 is light years better and Cd Projeckt red released a full game at launch while not gloating about it.

[Mulletino]

What I didn't like about witcher was that you have to be Geralt and the skill tree in witcher 3 became old to me pretty quickly.

[KillZallthebeast]

it's one of the few downsides in that game in my opinion. A more diverse skill tree would be nifty

[_-EDMIX-_]

I mean that's one of the biggest downsides with that game along with it's questionable gameplay and along with the really terrible main story I absolutely hated what they did with the main quest but I absolutely love the side quest of just randomly going town to town beating a bad guy for the citizens.

Witcher does a lot of great things Narratively but there's a lot of things that does bad in execution that I hope doesn't repeat in the future series.

[dmonee]

Maybe it is in development. We just don't know yet. Perhaps, they aren't seeing the hunger for it yet. Bethesda was really pushing that Morrowind expansion for Elder scrolls online. My personal theory is that, all are waiting, until they know for sure when "FFVII Remaster" is coming. The entire games industry is circling around it. Whether it's a year or three from now, the gaming industry will pause as billions of us play that game. Once we all play it, and we begin our hate on all that is FFVII, and how Square Enix has ruined this once great classic, Bethesda will come out of nowhere and shit out a big ol' Elder Scrolls 6 all over Final Fantasy! We will cheer and celebrate as we are saved from the smoldering wreckage! This is just a convoluted theory. Not likely! But plausible....

[Takwin]

1. Milking Skyrim like few games have ever been milked
2. They cannot touch the quality of The Witcher 3 or Zelda Breath of the Wild
3. Their other recent RPG, Fallout 4, demonstrates 2 conclusively

[TheColbertinator]

Fine. Let Obsidian make it then.

[joab777]

Because they are working on a new IP and ESO is making money hand over fist right now!

[_-EDMIX-_]

The rumor I've read is both and you would also have to understand that Bethesda is composed of multiple teams

For example the team that is actually working on the Elder Scrolls online is actually not the main part of the team that makes the other Elder Scrolls and Fallout games.

So I'm actually doubtful that they won't make an Elder Scrolls because Elder Scrolls Online is selling because that doesn't really make any sense , business is not about "instead of " or an either-or situation many times it's actually about both , so I don't actually understand why Elder Scrolls Online existing means you wouldn't get in Elder Scrolls 6.

Here's an example to illustrate I'm currently opening up a business and I'm in the middle of getting all the licensing copyright and legal stuff taken care of but I had 2 physical stores in a location close to me that are doing well enough to hire employees, so I don't need to be there anymore ,but I'm also transitioning our entire store online so it has nothing to do with an "either/or" or an "instead of" and actually has to do with both.

One doing better doesn't somehow negate another opportunity to make money , that's almost like saying something's making you a million dollars and something else is only making you 750,000 so you're trying to abandon one over the other as opposed to Simply doing both when both consecutively could make you money.

This is why I never understand when I hear Gamers say something like one property is making them so much money so they're not going to agree to make more money which just doesn't make any sense.

I mean seriously objectively look at it from my point of view both the stores that I own are physically making me lots of money, online is simply making me more but that doesn't really make sense to abandon other cash flow opportunities.

[Errefus]

Because they need a new engine

[_LarZen_]

There probably won't be a new Elder Scrolls until the next generation consoles comes out. They won't use years to develop for a platform that will be replaced in 2-3 years.

[Sirk7x]

It's gonna be awhile. They probably want TESVI to be developed in a new engine. I really, really hope so at least.