'I'm Preaching Patience' — The Elder Scrolls 6 Is 'Still a Long Way Off,' Todd Howard Warns Fans, Teases Potential Shadowdrop

The Elder Scrolls 6 — 1 of the astir hotly anticipated video games successful the satellite — won’t beryllium retired for immoderate clip yet contempt being announced implicit 7 years ago, Bethesda improvement main Todd Howard has said.

In an interrogation with GQ mag to observe the merchandise of Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition, Howard said The Elder Scrolls 6 is “still a agelong mode off.” He added: “I’m preaching patience. I don’t privation fans to consciousness anxious.”

In January this year, The Elder Scrolls 6 announcement became arsenic aged arsenic predecessor Skyrim was erstwhile The Elder Scrolls 6 was announced. Skyrim was released connected November 11, 2011, and The Elder Scrolls 6 uncover connected June 10, 2018 came 2,403 days aft that. It is present 7 years and 5 months aft the announcement, and we’re nary closer, it seems, to the merchandise of the game.

When the six twelvemonth day of The Elder Scrolls 6 announcement arrived successful June past year, adjacent Todd Howard paused to say, "oh wow, that has been a while." The Elder Scrolls 6 is astatine slightest successful production, with Bethesda confirming it had entered "early development" successful August 2023 and "early builds" were disposable successful March 2024.

Now, successful the GQ article, Howard has erstwhile again admitted that it’s taken excessively agelong to get The Elder Scrolls 6 retired the door, but did tease an The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered-style shadowdrop — without confirming anything.

“I bash similar to person a interruption betwixt them, wherever it isn’t similar a ‘plus one’ sequel,” Howard said of making The Elder Scrolls games again. “I deliberation it’s besides bully for an assemblage to person a interruption — The Elder Scrolls has been excessively long, let’s beryllium clear. But we wanted to bash thing caller with Starfield. We needed a originative reset.” Bethesda is presently playtesting The Elder Scrolls 6, Howard revealed.

So erstwhile volition it really travel out? It seems apt astatine this constituent that it volition beryllium released for Microsoft’s next-gen Xbox console and PC. Will it besides beryllium a PS6 game? A cross-gen rubric perhaps?

“I similar to conscionable denote worldly and merchandise it,” Howard continued. “My cleanable mentation — and I’m not saying this is going to hap — is that it's going to beryllium a portion and then, 1 day, the crippled volition conscionable appear.” The Oblivion Remastered shadowdrop was “a trial run,” Howard teased. “It worked retired well.”

As for what Bethesda has going connected close now, hundreds of radical are moving connected Fallout, Howard said, crossed Fallout 76 “and immoderate different things we're doing, but The Elder Scrolls 6 is the mundane thing.”

Last month, it was confirmed that The Elder Scrolls 6 volition see a quality designed successful representation of a much-missed fan, aft a singular foundation run that raised much than $85,000 for Make-A-Wish. Howard revealed that Bethesda has spent immoderate clip talking with the radical of fans who organized the fundraiser astir what they privation to spot from The Elder Scrolls 6, and commented: “I deliberation we’re aligned.”

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