During E3, Bethesda’s director Todd Howard revealed that the Elder Scrolls 6 is being worked on, although he also added that they are a long way off from actually announcing anything. However recently it seems that there are some contradicting statements from the company as Bethesda’s marketing exec Pete Hines revealed on Twitter that they aren’t working on the game at the moment.However Hines later followed up with a tweet that said that the game was still years and years away. Howard had also backtracked on his earlier statement in an interview which had quoted him as saying, “I should have never said a number because we have so many things. You could add it up in different ways. You could say it’s bigger or smaller. They’re a long way off. I think the larger point was, no one should expect to hear about those [games] anytime soon. We always overlap projects. We just have more going on now than we had before.”
So what can we take away from all of this? While it does sound contradictory, basically what we can take away from this entire thing is that the Elder Scrolls franchise is still here to stay and that the studio has not given up on it yet. While we suppose it is obvious that eventually there will be an Elder Scrolls 6, it won’t be out anytime soon as Bethesda is focusing on other titles at the moment, which we think is ultimately the message they are trying to get across.
That being said, Bethesda did recently state that they plan to make Skyrim: Special Edition as next-gen as possible, which hopefully will be able to tide gamers and keep the interest alive and well until the next Elder Scrolls game is released.
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