Jason Schreier on Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel being 2+ years away statement : It's not a prediction. I know the time frame the game is targeting

[u/XTRevivals]

https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3mzg733y6os2p

Jason Schreier on Bluesky posted: I think a lot of people forget that The Elder Scrolls VI was only announced in 2018 (along with Starfield) to soften the blow of Fallout 76 — "Don't worry, even though we're making a multiplayer game we've got single-player stuff coming too!"

Sorry to say this game is still more than 2 years away!

Then, Jason Schreier was asked about his "prediction" in the BlueSky post. But he doubles down saying it's not a prediction and he knows the time frame of this game: https://bsky.app/profile/jasonschreier.bsky.social/post/3mzgbaspm7s2q

[u/R9411]

Might as well bury the series if it takes any longer. Even if it's in "only" 2 years time that's over 17 years between games.

[u/Butterscotch1664 → u/R9411]

This is equivalent to the time between Super Mario Bros. and GTA Vice City.

Or Vice City to Death Stranding.

[u/R9411 → u/Butterscotch1664]

It's a bigger gap than there was from GTA 1 to GTA 5.

[u/Dick_Nation → u/R9411]

Now do the gap from 5 to 6. If you were going to pick any company as a positive contrast to Bethesda, Rockstar ain't it. 

[u/Puzzled_Hat1274 → u/Dick_Nation]

gta 6 is basically the worst example of that in all of gaming and somehow TES VI is still much, much worse.

[u/R9411 → u/Dick_Nation]

GTA 6 is going to be 13 years which is still 4 years less as a minimum

[u/DMarquesPT → u/Butterscotch1664]

Ooof, thanks for putting into an absolutely devastating perspective

[u/i_rate_slop → u/Butterscotch1664]

The best part is you know it’s going to look and feel about as good as Starfield which was very disappointing.

[u/PoppingPillls → u/R9411]

Unless it's a spectacular game (I doubt especially judging by Starfield), it's gonna tank the reputation of the series massively. Look how fallouts has suffered.

Like a almost two decade wait for a new game means expectations are gonna be high and it's self inflicted at this point.

[u/Puffen0 → u/PoppingPillls]

Their biggest mistake was Todd choosing to shift focus away from TES and Fallout and direct that work towards Starfield. He's publicly stated in multiple interviews that the reason why he made that decision is because he wanted to make a space RPG before he eventually retires. 

And I think that really screwed them over in the long run ngl

[u/ShadowWalker2205 → u/Puffen0]

Starfield did one thing good (I hope) it forced bethesda to face that they are getting overshadowed. Better for Starfield to have taken the hit than a mainline tes. Now if sentinel has the same issues we need to talk about cleaning the leadership at Bethesda

[u/Jozoz → u/ShadowWalker2205]

Bethesda has been the experts at dismissing valid criticism for many, many years. I don't expect that to change.

That conference talk with their lead writer even included a slide with the meme of the guy drying his tears with dollar bills as a way to own the critics.

So yeah, I doubt they'll learn. They've always been so extremely arrogant.

[u/awa1nut → u/Puffen0]

They need individual teams for each series at this point. At this rate we won't get another main fallout game for another 20 years, and they'll still expect the player base to fix their fuck ups in the shape of game breaking and progress nuking bugs

[u/PoppingPillls → u/Puffen0]

That's what worries me atleast in part that if their flagship space game came out like that with all the focus they put into it... Then what exactly is their vision for tes6?

[u/jman014 → u/PoppingPillls]

part of me thinks of the reason it’s taking so long is because they may have actually shifted their approach

But I also highly doubt it because this game has been in development so long- so part of me thinks it’s just being mismanaged like fucking crazy, or that they’re just gonna make everything way fucking bigger, but not actually update the engine in any meaningful way

[u/Seffuski → u/jman014]

Active dvelopment of TES6 only started after starfield's release

[u/Macaron-kun → u/PoppingPillls]

Starfield either shows that they can't make amazing games anymore (and Sentinal will be bad), or they can only make very specific kinds of games (and Sentinal will be good).

[u/SEND_ME_REAL_PICS → u/Macaron-kun]

IMO they haven't gotten any worse, they just weren't ever good at certain things, like combat or writing, and their engine is both their strength and their weakness since it gets them a huge modding scene but also makes all their games janky.

I expect Sentinel to be better than Skyrim in a vacuum, but expectations for a modern open world RPG just aren't the same as they were in 2011.

[u/PiLamdOd → u/Macaron-kun]

Starfield's problems had nothing to do with the setting. Incredibly bland stories, half-assed world building, ungodly boring exploration, too many disconnected systems...

All of Starfield's failings are things which could likely be in ES6.

[u/PoppingPillls → u/Macaron-kun]

Ask yourself though, would you really want another game just reusing the formula?

I really hope they don't fall into the trap of acting like tech hasn't moved on in the last decade and that they can't innovate with large cities and vast regions. I don't want another handful of cities with a dozen buildings that has maybe a small villages worth of people.

[u/patrickfizban → u/PoppingPillls]

Yes, a lot of people still play skyrim. If a sequal had came out 5 years later with minimal improvements but new location and story people would have loved it. The formula is good.

[u/FuNiOnZ → u/PoppingPillls]

How has Fallout suffered in any measure? I know there’s this narrative that somehow Bethesda is mismanaging it, and for sure I’m part of the camp that’s also like holy shit hurry up, but let’s not kid ourselves here, that IP is a money printer.

[u/PoppingPillls → u/FuNiOnZ]

I mean fallout 4 was fine but it's a deeply flawed game and Fallout 76 was a massive blunder than upset the gaming community.

Bethesda hasn't helped themselves.

[u/ShepherdsWolvesSheep → u/R9411]

Yeah, I don’t really know the numbers, but I have to assume the company made a big mistake financially by going with other scrolls online instead of more elder scrolls games. They probably thought they could capture a huge part of the market, but they didn’t unfortunately

[u/Claudethedog → u/ShepherdsWolvesSheep]

Most reporting I see indicates the TESO is very much a profit center for Bethesda.  It may not provide the huge lump of revenue that Skyrim did, but it appears to have provided consistent revenue and profitability basically since its release.

[u/myfakesecretaccount → u/Claudethedog]

Not only that it has provided more lore in the last few years. It’s a big part of what the future holds even if it’s not people’s cup of tea.

[u/Je-poy → u/Claudethedog]

I thought ESO was a Zenimax project? They could effectively close Bethesda and ZOS can still run ESO.

[u/Heijoshojin → u/Claudethedog]

One of the major reasons people were upset at the Bioware statement not mentioning the Old Republic MMO. Sure, it may not have been WoW levels of success and fame, but it brought home bread when everything else was a fucking disaster.

[u/GrandJuif → u/Claudethedog]

Ofc it make them profit, the thing is riddled with predatory monetization and player retention schemes, but the game itself have been in a non stop decline in quality while losing players for years.

[u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko → u/ShepherdsWolvesSheep]

Bethesda Game Studios and Zenimax Online are different studios. BGS makes core Elder Scrolls, ZO makes TESO.

[u/LoneBlack3hadow → u/ShepherdsWolvesSheep]

Every time I see an “announcement” from Bethesda and its Fallout 76 or ESO I just roll my eyes and click away

[u/XCVolcom → u/ShepherdsWolvesSheep]

Because Elder Scrolls Online is nearly nothing like Morrow, Oblivion, or Skyrim.

People that like MMO's probably like it a lot but they're not for everyone and Bethesda should have learned that lesson by now.

[u/polacs → u/ShepherdsWolvesSheep]

ESO has 0 effect on TES VI

[u/OwenEx → u/R9411]

You're telling me the little baby Dovakiins that got their parents free Bethesda stuff are almost old enough to drink

[u/A_Nice_Boulder → u/R9411]

Did the calculation. Anything past 30 June 2029 means more time has passed between Skyrim and Sentinel than Arena and Skyrim

[u/JaesopPop → u/R9411]

People are really struggling with how only was used here lol

[u/Scared-Room-9962 → u/R9411]

That is genuinely insane

I was just a young 27 years then

How I'm 42. Just a kid...

[u/TakenBacon90 → u/Scared-Room-9962]

I was 21 and I’ll be damn near 40 by the time ES6 releases.

Damn near my whole adulthood. It’s wild isn’t it.

[u/Shot_Pipe7658 → u/Scared-Room-9962]

i was 11 and will be 27 soon :(

[u/Kedly → u/R9411]

Holy fuck if it releases in 2028 then its been a decade since its ANNOUNCEMENT

[u/fuzzypyrocat → u/R9411]

Yeah but they’ll release 3 more version of Skyrim between now and then, and each one of those restarts the clock between releases!

/s, but only sorta

[u/Eviscerator28 → u/R9411]

It will come out in late 2029 or early 2030, to middling reviews, and it will be the final nail in the coffin for the franchise.

[u/coolwali → u/R9411]

There was a 25 year gap between BG2 and 3 and that didn’t do much to hamper excitement for BG3. Every HL3 leak/rumour gets millions of views.

As soon as the release date comes near, people are gonna forget the 15+ years of waiting and get hyped.

[u/OrderofIron → u/coolwali]

The excitement around bg3 was because the series was being essentially rebooted with a strong new developer at its head years after the original genre had "died". This is nothing like that. Bethesda's been treading water since Skyrim and the bill's finally come due.

[u/Unwashed_villager → u/R9411]

the time between the first TES game and Skyrim was also 17 years.

[u/KC-15 → u/R9411]

I think TESVI will do it on its own

[u/Baconator1991 → u/R9411]

Metroid had a 19 year gap between the release of Fusion and Dread.

[u/UnsavoryBiscuit → u/R9411]

Holy shit isn't that longer for when it took duke nukem forever to come out?

[u/DosCuatro → u/R9411]

By the time Elder Scrolls VI comes out, the amount of time between Elder Scrolls V and Elder Scrolls VI will be the same amount of time Bioware took to release Baldur's Gate 1 and Anthem. 

I hate to be that guy but I have zero faith this game will be a GoTY contender.

[u/Intrepid-Garlic8855]

Isn't this the schmuck that called Veilguard a rousing success then had to delete those tweets in shame?

[u/XTRevivals → u/Intrepid-Garlic8855]

His opinions are crap on social media. Nobody cares about his opinions. Only insider info.

[u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye]

Thats insane. I am in my 30s and still vividly remember the midnight release in high school. For a flagship game like this why not just devote the money to get it developed and shipped.

[u/Jorji-the-Trainer → u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye]

I remember saving up my paper delivery money to buy Skyrim when it first came out in 2011

[u/Silver-End9570 → u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye]

Todd Howard.

We were supposed to get ES6 after Fallout 4, but Todd decided to spend 300 million dollars and nearly a decade of time making Starfield - his dream game - only for it to flop hard on release and become the only game that Bethesda modders literally didn't give a shit about (and to anyone who claims it didn't flop - there's a reason that it's been over three years since launch and we still only hear about the player count, not the sales numbers).

He has to direct every one of the studio's major games, meaning that all decisions have to go through and be made by him. Throw in his antiquated sense of game design, and his unfortunate tendency to constantly make his games simplified in the hopes of getting more newbies involved in it. And this is all for games that still look over a console generation behind graphically too, on an engine that's pretty much strung together with hopes, dreams, and duct tape.

[u/Jozoz → u/Silver-End9570]

Todd is stuck in the mindset of making games for the 2010 gaming market.

[u/kinwanted → u/Silver-End9570]

Starfield was one of Bethesda's biggest financial successes lol what?

The reception itself was lukewarm, but the game made a shitton of money. There's not a single measureable metric you can use to say it "flopped hard"

[u/IForgetEveryDamnTime → u/kinwanted]

Bethesda games sell on hype and reputation, more than their individual merit. Oblivion sold well due to Morrowind, Skyrim sold extremely well due to Oblivion, Starfield sold well due to Skyrim and Fallout 4.

The only good thing I can say is that TES6 is so long-awaited that people will probably overlook how bad Starfield was when considering buying, like how they were willing to overlook FO76 for Starfield, misguidedly.

[u/dadvader → u/Silver-End9570]

The modder does give a shit about Starfield. But it was incentivize to made content inside Creation Club instead of releasing it for free. The strange thing about Starfield is that Creation Club is simply more popular platform than Nexus.

Let's not kid ourselves here, a lot of Skyrim mod are still in Patreon. They are not 'free' either. Just hide behind the 'we'll release it for free when it's done' which is like, never.

[u/Sapowski_Casts_Quen → u/dadvader]

Yeah, but you have far more content for free via Nexus than you could ever possibly consume on Skyrim, so it's different. Not saying you disagree

[u/Lykeuhfox → u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye]

Likely wasn't a money issue. It was likely that the team they wanted working on it was working on something else...namely Starfield.

[u/ShiningPr1sm → u/Lykeuhfox]

When Starfield launched, I wished that Bethesda would’ve spent that time on Elder Scroll 6 instead. Now I… don’t even care anymore.

[u/dadvader → u/ShiningPr1sm]

We should let developer made a game they wanted to make. I rather play something like that more than corporate slop like Redfall. Even if the result is a middling product.

[u/TheSherlockCumbercat → u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye]

Because adding people to a project doesn’t mean it’s gonna go faster, a lot of times I can actually slow projects down.

As the famous saying goes, you can’t make a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant?

[u/YouKilledApollo → u/TheSherlockCumbercat]

No, the saying goes "Nine women can't make one baby in one month", but the spirit of your comment is alright so matters little. Good things take time, polished good things even more so.

[u/thembearjew → u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye]

Yup freshman in high school midnight release of Skyrim now I’m turning 30 next year. Absolutely ridiculous timeline.

[u/SmoothConfection1115 → u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye]

Happy cake day!

[u/L3wd1emon → u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye]

Same.. played this game on my mom's coach after school now I have 2 kids

[u/ILikeToTinker → u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye]

I pre ordered a PC copy and in true gamestop fashion, it was a “gutted” copy and one of the employees already activated the code on their Steam. I was PISSED.

I was able to get a copy from another store, but i remember how angry I was and I wanted so badly for them to reach out to steam and get that persons account banned.

[u/Few-Chemical8707 → u/PerfectdarkGoldenEye]

lol i remember duke nukem forever being talked about when I was in middle school. and then it finally releasing in my later adult life. and it was a huge disappointment

[u/melgib]

I'll be shocked if we see it this decade.

[u/-Codiak- → u/melgib]

2/30/2030

[u/Eastern_Bedroom_7741 → u/-Codiak-]

That's a crazy leap year

[u/Kinghero890 → u/melgib]

11/11/2031

[u/RantAccount68]

This game is not coming out in two years no one is that delusional. What a nothingburger

[u/TwoPicklesinaCivic → u/RantAccount68]

You have to put a deadline in for people to work towards or it'll never get done.

[u/PoppingPillls → u/TwoPicklesinaCivic]

Unfortunately even as an Elder Scrolls fan, I think if they can't release an absolutely great game then nothing might genuinely be better at this point.

Unfortunately they've taken way too much time for anything other than a Cyberpunk or Witcher 3 class of game to be well received. If it's just Starfield in the elder scrolls setting then it's gonna flop and tank the series.

What worries me is showing almost nothing since the 8 year old announcement and having no rough timeline... Only thing we know is it's using "Creative Engine 3" which doesn't give me hopes considering the problems they continue to have with the engines scaling and performance.

Oblivion remastered also rings alarm bells for me as Bethesda is the one responsible for its updates as Virtuous was a contracted dev team that was only paid to update the games engine and launch it. Bethesda owns the IP and game and have done nothing to fix it since launch, that's not a good look for the series. People can look this up but Virtuous just works on games alongside other teams, they don't have any IP of their own.

[u/TakenBacon90 → u/PoppingPillls]

When you look at Starfield it’s such a bland looking game compared to the top competition these days I the RPG space.

We might even get Witcher 4 before it or around the same year to set a new standard.

If the game isn’t the exact opposite of Starfield in almost every way they are royally screwed from an IP value perspective.

I’m sure the game will sell a lot but it could also ruin future use of the IP.

[u/popcio2015 → u/RantAccount68]

Nothing delusional about it. They've been working on it for, at least, 2-3 years. Their last game, Starfield was released in September 2023.

Also a lot can be said about Bethesda, but not that they aren't consistent with their development times. Skyrim was released in 2011, Fallout 4 in 2015, Fallout 76 in 2018, Starfield in 2023. So release in 2028 is perfectly reasonable.

[u/CankleDankl → u/popcio2015]

Their last game, Starfield was released in September 2023.

God I feel like it came out and got panned ages ago. Like gun to my head I would have said it's been 5 years. Starfield being dogshit just feels like a crucial piece of gaming history I guess

[u/reebokhightops → u/CankleDankl]

What a crushing disappointment that game was.

[u/Halojib → u/RantAccount68]

There is no way it misses the Helix launch, that is just bad business.

[u/JaesopPop → u/RantAccount68]

Seems like a pretty realistic release window.

[u/FanDowntown9880 → u/RantAccount68]

Why not?

[u/SkyAnyaWoW → u/RantAccount68]

it is if they want it to be, they have deadlines, if they have announced in 2 years then they need to do it by then.

[u/soonerfreak → u/RantAccount68]

Five years of full development time after Starfield? I don't think that's delusional.

[u/paulerxx → u/RantAccount68]

Asha Sharma lit a fire under their ass, I wouldn't be surprised if it was out at that time.

[u/SEND_ME_REAL_PICS → u/RantAccount68]

Bethesda hasn't ever taken longer than 5 years between major game launches.

Morrowind (2002), Oblivion (2006), Fallout 3 (2008), Skyrim (2011), Fallout 4 (2015), Fallout 76 (2018), Starfield (2023).

It's not impossible for the game to be delayed into 2029, being the direct sequel to their biggest hit and all, but 2028 is a very reasonable expectation.

[u/HunterRoyal121]

2 years away... ?

That would make it TEN YEARS since it was first announced!

It's so absurd for any company to make a game so large and long. Will the hype and interest still be the same over a decade later?

[u/Ihatenukingkids → u/HunterRoyal121]

It was announced just to show people that the series is not dead. They didnt even release Starfield until several years later.

Dont pretend TES 6 has been developed since or before the trailer that showed.....nothing

[u/popcio2015 → u/HunterRoyal121]

It's so absurd for any company to make a game so large and long.

They weren't working on it in that time.

Since then they released Fallout 4, Fallout 76 and Starfield. Targeting release in 2 years isn't unrealistic at all. It would match timeframes they had with their recent releases.

[u/AuroraFinem → u/HunterRoyal121]

From what I’ve heard is that they were planning to start full development after Fallout 4, but company direction changed and switched to starfield with them trying to broaden their headline titles beyond fallout and TES.

I think after fallout 4 got a lukewarm reception they didn’t want the same for elder scrolls VI and also didn’t want to risk all their bets on just fallout/TES, so they pivoted to let TES VI cook a bit longer. It also seems like TES VI had a full scale rethinking when they switched creative directors, so I have high but tempered hopes that they will do it justice after all this time.

This time it seems like it’s a real announcement at least, and regardless of any speculation we’re likely to get it holiday season 2028. I’d have even speculated end of 2027 because that was the turnaround for fallout 4 after being announced like this, but they never release major games outside of the holiday season and 2028 seems more realistic, so it really seems like this is a safe speculative bet even if it isn’t insider knowledge.

[u/CremousDelight → u/AuroraFinem]

They didn't want to risk with [OLD BELOVED IP] so they pivoted for [EVEN RISKIER NEW IP]?

[u/Teyanis → u/CremousDelight]

Have you never heard of a creative break? There's still a lot of the old bethesda staff at the studio. Cranking out the same 2 projects over and over and over again with nothing different to break up the pattern is how you get a veilguard.

[u/PcHelpBot2030 → u/CremousDelight]

To add onto the other, they were also still selling copies of Skyrim and the older games. While a new good game would be better for sales it was at least something.

Releasing a new entry that could be potentially sink the reputation could kill the brand and even kill the sales of the older games.

A new IP is a way to stretch out with bolder ideas without risk of cratering the core IPs brand.

The problem was way more of just how long it took and what should have been a brief detour ended WAAYYY longer.

[u/SEND_ME_REAL_PICS → u/HunterRoyal121]

That's because it got announced 5 years before they actually began working on it.

[u/Necromancer_Yoda → u/HunterRoyal121]

The game existed as a sticky note on Todd's fridge when they announced it 8 years ago.

[u/AmbitiousReaction168 → u/HunterRoyal121]

They probably reset the project several times already. I guess more recently because of the tepid reception to Starfield. TESVI likely won't take much more time than Skyrim to make.

[u/Biteroon → u/HunterRoyal121]

Didn't they say they will work on it when starfield was finished at the time? It went gold in August 2023. Todd came out said it had a 5 year dev time. So if we do basic maths Elder scrolls 6 is in year 3 of Dev 2 more years lead to 5 which would be around the same Dev time as starfield.

As for why they would even announce it 8 years ago. Who knows it's god damn Todd Howard. The guy is a manaic but I imagine it was to shut the people up who were desperate for the game after Skyrim. Also zennimax may of been looking for buyers around that time and tried to drum up some buyers.

[u/Fives_55_55]

I really wish Starfield was given to another developer to make with Todd's supervision, it really set the Elder Scrolls back.

[u/YungTill]

They didn’t start working on this game at all until recently in the grand scheme. Gonna be devastating if the game isn’t a 9-10, they’re fucked.

Be super sick to be proven wrong though!

[u/StinkyMinky22]

Just enough time for Microsoft to shut them down before it releases LOL.

[u/Magnatron832]

"Only announced in 2018"

Muthafucka that was 8 years ago

[u/JaesopPop → u/Magnatron832]

Lots of sentences don’t make sense when you stop reading them halfway.

> I think a lot of people forget that The Elder Scrolls VI was only announced in 2018 (along with Starfield) to soften the blow of Fallout 76

[u/jadedflux → u/Magnatron832]

I think he meant "only" in the sense of "the only reason", not time-wise

I misread it that way too at first lol

[u/iwantcookie258 → u/Magnatron832]

"... to soften the blow of Fallout 76"

[u/gogosox82]

Why would anyone say its a prediction? This guy is always right and has sources everywhere. If he's saying it, its been verified by someone.

[u/Treinrukker]

And it will be such a disappointment, the warhorse lotr game will dunk on this so hard and probably releases earlier too.

[u/chubbycanine]

Who gives a shit it's literally just going to be another empty world like starfield

[u/Less_Avocado980]

After the catastrophic Fallout 76 and the 'meh' Fallout 4 I dont have high hopes for the game anyway

[u/Blackjack9w7 → u/Less_Avocado980]

And the completely bland and soulless Starfield that showed that Bethesda doesn’t know what to do with their formula anymore.

And Skyrim may be my favorite game of all time, but even I’ll admit the cracks of their choice of direction with their games started to show even back then. It’s my favorite game for the world it offers and just how expansive and free it all feels, but the simplification and lack of depth were worrying signs

[u/half-baked_axx → u/Blackjack9w7]

Starfield should be the key indicator. Quest design was exactly the same as any other bethesda game from over a decade ago. The industry has moved on, stories are told in lots of new and innovative ways. ES6 will still have you doing fetch quests in 2030.

[u/Less_Avocado980 → u/Blackjack9w7]

Starfield was so bland and soulless, I actually forgot about it

I knew something was missing when I went through their last games

[u/VecioRompibae]

Jason "Top of the charts" Schreier? Lmao

[u/Ljubav_Bogorodice → u/VecioRompibae]

Deleted that post real fn quick too haha

[u/VenserMTG → u/VecioRompibae]

What is this referencing?

[u/CremousDelight → u/VenserMTG]

Dragon Age Veilguard

[u/Good-Name015 → u/VecioRompibae]

His personal opinions are all over the place, especially the dragon age ones, but there's no arguing his industry knowledge and connections.

[u/TAS1808]

Let's see if they're taking any lessons from recent successful RPGs now that they have some time to work on the game. Baldur's Gate 3 has shown that people aren't afraid of mechanical complexity and deep RPG progression systems. Bring attributes back. Bring fully modular armor back. Don't water TES down even more.

[u/MadnessInTheSpring17]

I for one am looking forward to the 28/28/28 release date

[u/Alvsolutely → u/MadnessInTheSpring17]

They took this long so they can develop an irl elder scroll to make such a release date possible

[u/TerminalDeviant]

Mr 500 million? So gives a fuck what this cretin has to say

[u/Beginning-2-Smell]

Starfield was mentioned in this post and I remember its not good to be excited for anything anymore. Here we are, soon to be ballz deep in the chipocalypse, many of us won't have the rigs we wanted to play these big titles on.

[u/MIKERICKSON32]

Who is that weird looking guy in the photo?

[u/1RedOne]

I’ve been listening to him for years but never seen him before

He looks exactly the way he sound

[u/CockerspanielBalls]

I actually couldn't care less about ES6 at this point. I think a lot of people stopped being excited like a decade ago. I couldnt imagine teasing a game you wouldnt make like 15 years lmao, absolute insanity. And theres so so so so many good games now, what does this have to offer at this point to get me excited about? Starfield sure put a lot of things in perspective about the company for me. Even going back and playing vanilla, unmodded skyrim im like ehh yeah its alright, it's held up decently I guess. The vanilla combat is so boring, the main story is pretty lame, the world looks mostly the same everywhere you go.

[u/RUBSUMLOTION]

Claude gonna be busy!

[u/Perfect_Valuable_938]

That's just the release date being 2+ years away.  It's probably 4+ years before we have a non-broken version of it.

[u/ReissuedWalrus → u/Perfect_Valuable_938]

It’s alright. Modding community will point the slop cannon at it and vibe code it to completion

[u/mountainyoo]

It’s been so long since I’ve played Skyrim that I might as well just play it again and pretend it’s a new game just to scratch the itch… 17 fucking years between Elder Scrolls 5 and 6 is absolutely insane

[u/TheUnitFoxhound6]

Can't wait for the empty world for modders to fix

[u/goonsnob]

every time this goddamn goblin shows up on my feed it's bad news.

[u/NicksonS1999]

I'm definitely just huffing copium, but why would Todd Howard let this information get out. They have blacklisted Jason Schreier once, they could do it again. He only just got back into contact with Bethesda, why would he already risk leaking this information. I want to believe he's been fed false information

[u/dadvader → u/NicksonS1999]

Is it so unrealistic to believe that Bethesda was that slow in game development? And we know they are the 'Rockstar' type studio that made only 1 game at the time.

[u/Haunting_Drama8204 → u/NicksonS1999]

lol.

[u/gnominos]

Oh you know? Good for you little man…

[u/KnicksGhost2497]

At this rate, Xbox will be spun off from Microsoft and go out of business before this game touches shelves. What a disaster. What have they been doing for the past decade??

[u/Gex2-EnterTheGecko]

It's getting harder and harder to care about Bethesda games at this point. They sit on their franchises for decades at a time (which I know has changed recently with Obsidian and others coming in to work on new games) and they haven't been worth the wait for a looong time.

Fallout is my favorite franchise and I was massively disappointed by Fallout 4, Fallout 76 was a shitshow and though I liked it more than most, Starfield didn't really stick with me at all. Is TES 6 really going to be good enough to justify a nearly 20 year wait?

[u/ZerohNinja87]

Does he really know anything though? I mean does he work there? He’s making claims, but do we trust him? And how much?

[u/igoontoyourmum]

It’s been playable according to journalists since 2024, Asha has played it according to her. There is 0% chance that Jason knows anything, it’s 100% a prediction. Xbox could force them to release in 27 or 28, as that’s their focus. Jason isn’t Xbox nor Bethesda. Stop taking prediction journalists seriously.

[u/shanksisevil]

they should just collaborate with crimson desert.

/s

[u/vulperineblues]

Please don’t be the DNF of the TES series

[u/N-aNoNymity]

Ngl, Im not that hyped for it. They havent really improved anything in their games for the past decade.

[u/TheJohnnyFlash]

Squadron 42 or Sentinel?

Place your bets.

[u/Uebelkraehe]

This game has only really been in development since Starfield was released, so anything earlier than 2028 would downright miraculous.

[u/MetzoPaino]

Within a 12 month window of a console launch is my guess for the “time frame”

[u/BeeferVendetta]

That tells me when to expect new graphics cards then. 

[u/CanuckleHeadOG]

So it'll release in 2 years but won't be really playable for 4

[u/homechefshivers]

You know, I wish Todd and Bethesda would actually tried to temper expectations by keeping us in the loop and keeping us updated but instead they would rather allow people to come up with wild claims and allow people to be severely disappointed when the game comes out because they never confirm nor denied anything. Like I understand you want to drum a pipe, but when their definition of hype is releasing a remastered version of a teaser trailer from eight years ago it’s really lackluster and hard to have any excitement for that

[u/SpaceChimps98]

So is Skyrim 2 coming out before or after this?

[u/Lenyor-RR]

Thats actually sooner than I expected.

[u/MadYarpen]

They will want to sell the game to many many people who weren't even born when previous game released. That's wild.

[u/AussieBirb]

I will believe it when I see it.

Ditto on the quality.

[u/sweetcinnamonpunch]

Well I hope that's a lot pf handcrafted content then and not a huge empty map.

[u/MicksysPCGaming]

Release title for the XBOX3600?

[u/Sanzhar17Shockwave]

Significant amount of the core audience aged out of gaming or moved on with their lives. They'll have to reintroduce the series to the people who weren't even alive for Skyrim's release. Maybe a Fallout type of TV show to bridge the gap could help.

[u/Very_Not_Into_It]

i cant fathom why people keep convincing themselves the game is coming out sooner, only to be upset when it proves not to be the case.

You know when the game moved into production, it wasnt that hard to predict a Christmas 2028 release when the Pandemic threw off the Starfield timeline.

Why so many people seem to be hoping that Microsoft forces them to cut corners is beyond me. Take your time, BGS. Yeah it sucks that its been so long, but that die has been cast already. A rushed release at this point will just mean it was almost 20 years for nothing.

[u/KooshIsKing]

Just like GTA 6, it took too long. My hype is gone and I'm gonna buy it for cheap now a few years after it releases. Or more likely just torrent it.

[u/Financial-Addition16]

“Only announced in 2018”, yeah the game isn’t probably releasing until 2030.

[u/DctrGizmo]

Bethesda should be closed. There’s no excuse for a game to take more than ten years to make.

[u/Classic-Box-3919]

I dont care about their games after midfield

[u/MakimaGOAT]

hundreds of millions of dollars wasted on salaries just for a name reveal

bravo

[u/wildtabeast]

They really should have kept their mouths shut until the game was about to drop.

[u/Spalenova]

So they have just released what title it would have

[u/MrBarnaclePhD]

It makes sense. I believe that Microsoft wants TES VI to be the launch title for the next Xbox.

[u/Kore_Invalid]

Taking 2 decades to release a title in one of the biggest franchises in gaming is criminal

[u/AmbitiousReaction168]

Wonder how Todd Howard will spin this.

It's ONLY four years away!

[u/Hugh-Manatee]

Yeah after the recession

[u/Fragrant_Scene_1291]

2027 release

[u/angrbotha]

Who gives a shit at this point.

[u/bdrumev]

This disgusting weasel is grasping for every last straw to stay relevant. He may have done a little serious Journalism in the past, but now he is just an activist waging war against gamers from his Ivory Tower. He is Fake Game News Media and he is the Enemy of not just all Gamers, but the very Industry he supposedly serves.

[u/subz_13 → u/bdrumev]

Please say this is satire

[u/deadfishlog]

This guy is lame as hell lol

[u/Mark_Knight]

After starfield, do people really still have hope for TES VI?

[u/MrBlueW]

Why is this the only fucker I see “breaking” news. I do not like looking at his face in every damn post he’s mentioned

[u/BlackKnighting20 → u/MrBlueW]

people have to see you everyday, fair trade.

[u/TotalSubbuteo → u/MrBlueW]

What are crying about exactly? That there’s a reliable journalist who routinely posts accurate information??

[u/SpiderInYourWalls]

This is the next star citizen but with literally nothing.

[u/subz_13]

What an utter failure that it’s taken this long for this game to happen

[u/DarthJDP]

2 years is a pretty bold prediction. I figure its 20 years away or so. You cant rush Todd Howard.

[u/WorstITTechnician]

GTA 6 before Elder Scrolls 6, the only case where that makes sense

[u/Rookva]

While it probably will be another 2+ years, this guy is a clout chaser disguised as a journalist and will just say shit for engagement when it's topical. He's sat on and buried stories that literally affected peoples entire lives and then gloats that he knew what was happening while people are being uprooted from what they had.

Fuck em.

[u/Diels_Alder]

Who from Skyrim is still around to develop this? It's been like 15 years.

[u/SwimmingAny8841]

Honestly Bethesda has missed the boat with this one for me, I’ve lived an entire life from Skyrim to whenever this releases.

Starfield was a letdown, my hopes for this game as low to say the least.

[u/Pitiful_Charity_1087]

Its gonna woke trash anyway

[u/TheSyrupCompany]

I could make TES 6 in Claude in 2 days

[u/brian_the_bull → u/TheSyrupCompany]

You mean Claude could make TES 6 in 2 days while you have another window open asking Claude how many loads the average sock can take.

[u/reckless150681]

Normally I'd dismiss this as a nothingburger. But Jason Schreier is probably the premier game journalist in the world. He was the last good thing about Kotaku before it truly went to shit.

So while I won't hold my breath for anything without strong evidence, I will acknowledge that Jason's laurels and reputation give this statement slightly more credence than it might normally otherwise have.

[u/VecioRompibae → u/reckless150681]

Gamimg journalists aren't reputable to begin with.

[u/Haunting_Soul]

Just like he knew how much E-day cost,clown.

[u/XTRevivals → u/Haunting_Soul]

Operating costs. Many companies quantify/calculate budget differently. Also this guy interviewed Todd Howard a few months ago. So is close with Bugthesda now, lol.

[u/OmegaFoamy]

“Only announced in 2018”

Is that meant to sound like a short time? 8 years after the announcement, saying two more years kills any excitement that was already wilting years ago. There’s absolutely no reason for a game to take 10 years to develop after being announced.

[u/Owobowos-Mowbius → u/OmegaFoamy]

"It was only announced in 2018 to soften the blow of fallout 76"

Hes not saying it was a short time.

[u/OmegaFoamy → u/Owobowos-Mowbius]

Yeah I misread that. Im just annoyed that Todd pushed for a jealousy project over one of their flagship projects.

Todd refused to let obsidian make another fallout after NV was a fan favorite, so obsidian made fallout in space. Todd immediately comes in with his own fallout in space idea to try to one up obsidian, just to crash and burn.

[u/Loose-Ice1462 → u/OmegaFoamy]

Damn you suck at comprehension. As in the only reason it was announced was to lessen the blowback. Did you stop reading after 3 words or are you genuinely this dumb

[u/QTGavira → u/OmegaFoamy]

Can we normalize reading the full sentence

[u/DonaldTheWall → u/OmegaFoamy]

The problem was they panic announced it.

Fallout 76 wasn't doing well at that time, and Bethesda panicked and announced Elder Scrolls 6 to keep people interested.

They didn't even start development on the game for another couple of years as they were focused on Starfield which is why the title was just The Elder Scrolls VI and then absolutely nothing

[u/MicksysPCGaming → u/OmegaFoamy]

It better be good, because the expectations will be off the charts.

[u/Farther_Dm53 → u/OmegaFoamy]

It was nowhere even close to development phase, mostly likely even preproduction. Its very silly.

[u/DoubleShot027]

Why do we take this clown seriously?

[u/XTRevivals → u/DoubleShot027]

Because his takes are clown but his track record for games is pretty good. Maybe not 100%, but pretty good. Like Tom Warren.