There were some rumours and speculations earlier today suggesting that The Elder Scrolls VI could come out in 2019. However, this is perhaps the most ridiculous prediction we’ve heard so far. And in case you believed it, well… you should not as The Elder Scrolls 6 is definitely not coming out this year.
For starters, we know that Bethesda is working on both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6. Not only that but we expect Starfield to come out sooner than the next Elder Scrolls game. If that’s Bethesda’s plan then there is no way to release two major games, for which we haven’t seen anything at all, in less than twelve months.
At E3 2018, Bethesda stated that the game was in a pre-production phase. As such, there is no way, even for an Early Access game, to come out in less than a year from now. Not only that, but these past few months Bethesda has been busy with Fallout 76; a game that has flopped and we are pretty sure that the team will be doing its best in 2019 to further polish it in order to turn the tides.
Both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 target next-gen platforms and there have been hints that both the next Playstation and Xbox consoles may come out in 2020. So yeah, a 2019 release date for TES6 is ridiculous.
At first I wasn’t sure whether it was worth publishing this article but I’m pretty sure that some media outlets will try to use this analyst in order to boost their hits, regardless of it sounding so ridiculous. So even though we are not analysts ourselves, we’re going to make a prediction and say that The Elder Scrolls 6 will not release in 2019. If we are right, then perhaps we are doing a better job than some of these “analysts” out there. And if we are not, we’ll start sharing all of the predictions that this analyst does over the next years. Sounds fair?
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Hey even if it comes the next year,itll be in playable state around 2022-ish when of course MODDERS fix it.
IF mods are even allowed.
FO4, FO4 VR, Skyrim VR, Creation Club, Bethesda Launcher and FO76 all turds. Do we really care now?
Skyrim VR is awesome. FO4 VR is a turd.
All those you mention are Fallout 3 DLC’s 😉
The same games, different settings 😉
elder scroll franchise and everything that bethesda has made so far is nothing but trash.
Don’t care about Bugthesda anymore…
I’m a huge fan of Skyrim* but if Fallout 76, Creation Club, Bethesda(dot)net exclusivity and the gross incompetence of having accidentally doxed their own customers is what the Bethesda of today is about then Zenimax can shove the next TES where the sun don’t shine!
* heavily modded including many bug and engine fixes which Bethesda never did (on any platform) despite the original game having been around since 2011. All such mods being free from the Nexus & elsewhere, not Bethesda’s micro-transaction paid ‘Mods’.
Zenimax sure has its work cut out to rescue the battered reputation Bethesda has earned itself these past few years. Fallout 76 may have been the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back but there’s much Bethesda has done in recent years leading up to that dramatic tipping point.
Their notorious reputation for bugs aside (Todd Howard even had the effrontery to publicly joke about it as if to rub salt in the wound), an early warning sign of them losing their direction, for me at least, was the decision to not feature Steam Workshop support for Skyrim SE. We’ve since witnessed a growing catalogue of further anti-consumer actions from them and then came the debacle that is Fallout 76.
Such is my fondness for (modded) Skyrim SE that I don’t wish to be hating on Bethesda but in truth they’ve given their customers the shaft so many times in recent years that their credibility is now all but shot so it’s difficult to maintain any faith in them.
With Obsidian Entertainment’s rather promising The Outer Worlds together with new owners Microsoft Studios to bankroll them then Bethesda may be about to have their lunch eaten.
I am gonna steer the conversation to a more interesting topic. Look at fallout 76, how will starfield be? For example will it be always online? What about mods? How it will compete with outer words, leaks say that the game features multiple planets and that space fighting didnt work and they gave it to another studio, possibly the one who did fallout 76 and they managed to get it working on a different engine but heads up told them to stick with the old engine. The one that fallout 76 used.
Then you got the fact that rpgs nowdays are essentially borderlands clones, look at anthem or destiny or division or fallout 76. Then you got the fact that alot of people are pulling out of tech and stocks are collapsing and there are rumors saying cyberpunk is being rushed right now to come out in 2019, seems they afraid of the drop on tech stocks.
Then you got this rumor that next gen is gonna come out in 2020, man this gen has been a joke.
Things are not looking good, but on related news kingdom come deliverance is one of steams top selling games for 2018.
2022-2024 is more realistic time.
Still i won’t buy it but i am going play it one way or the another
If the rumors regarding Starfield are accurate, we won’t be seeing Starfield until 2021. At that point BGS has either closed or Bioware-ed. Either case I’m afraid we will never see TES VI.
Man, how the mighty have fallen.
>mostly bug-free release
Unfortunately for Bethesda I don’t see that happening. What this industry needs is for several major publishers to crash and burn as a warning to the rest of them that no one is too big to fail and then they’ll right their own ships or burn with the others.
You know what? That would only be misinterpreted and scare investors and studios into making less and less innovative games, and more safe bets, which would only be the final nail in the coffin for gaming.
Video game crash of 1983.
“Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
And by God, are we repeating it.
I can’t recall that crash affecting me. I got an Atari 2600 in 1980 and had all of the games that I wanted or had time for within a year or so. It was around 1985 that I got a Commodore 64 and there were plenty of fun games for that. Millions and millions of people were buying the C-64.
I think quite a few people were stepping up to computer gaming at that time. Was the crash mostly a console thing?
North America and consoles, yeah. It took Nintendo establishing the approval process for video games (i.e. the “Nintendo Seal of Approval”) to reboot the industry by restoring consumer confidence.
Basically, we’ve come full circle.
Oh I don’t. BGS is dead to me. They make mobile-model marketplace apps disguised as games – just all microtransaction-packed garbage now.
Also don’t expect it to be anything above mediocre. will be tied to their launcher with paid mods and microtransactions.
Seriously, I dont want any Elder Scrolls game made by the actual BGS team. I dont want it even more dumbed down, with the same bugs and sh*t since Morrowind/Oblivion.
They have to deliver a complete superb release when they want to recover some of the trust and cred they once had, and I dont think they are capable of achieving this.
Give the IP to CD Project RED pls ^^