Bethesda says Elder Scrolls 6 is in ‘early development’, more news still ‘years away’

Update 40 for The Elder Scrolls Online is coming, bringing the Endless Archive and a series of improvements. The ESO team revealed more about the update, including a deep dive into the Endless Archive dungeon. Update 40 arrives October 30th on PC/Mac and November 14th on console.

Bethesda has noted that it will be including Nvidia DLSS support in a future update for Starfield, along with a selection of the «top community requested features» that have been reported since the game launched. The announcement has been included in the short patch notes for today's hotfix update, which includes some stability and frame rate tweaks. 

With Starfield, Bethesda Game Studios has released its first ever title as a first party Xbox developer, and though the studio is, of course, going to continue focusing on the sci-fi RPG for a while, there’s already no shortage of excitement around what will come next either. The Elder Scrolls 6 will be BGS’ next big project, and though it’s still a ways off from launch (to say the least), questions about whether it, too, will be an Xbox console exclusive continue to be asked by the masses.

In late 2001, the dot-com crash struck ZeniMax, and a team of thirty-some developers in the company’s basement feared for their jobs. They were late delivering their new role-playing game, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, to Microsoft; their board of directors had begun having doubts about the whole videogame enterprise. People were pulling seven-day workweeks on something none of them were sure would ever see the light of day. Morale was in the toilet.

Bethesda has discussed its decision not to include ground vehicles in Starfield — at least, not at the game's launch.

Space is big and, for the most part, kind of dull. The heady thrill of setting foot on planets no human has ever seen aside, most of the celestial bodies in our universe are just big, complicated rocks when you get right down to it. For better or worse, that's a part of reality that Starfield deliberately tries to capture, according to a recent NYT interview (via VG247) with Ashley Cheng, Bethesda's managing director, and Todd Howard, who is Todd Howard.

Starfield might not even be out yet, but head of publishing Pete Hines has confirmed that The Elder Scrolls 6 is now in early development at Bethesda Game Studios. This news comes five years after the game was announced at E3 2018.

Given the current hype surrounding Starfield, you’re never too far away from a discussion of all things related to Bethesda, including The Elder Scrolls 6. We all know that it’s likely years until the Skyrim follow-up sees the light of day, but at what stage of development is it currently at?

Starfield might not even be out yet, but head of publishing Pete Hines has confirmed that The Elder Scrolls 6 is now in early development at Bethesda Game Studios. This news comes five years after the game was announced at E3 2018.

The Elder Scrolls VI is now in early development, Bethesda has confirmed. Speaking to Spanish publication Vandal, Bethesda's Head of Publishing Pete Hines confirmed that while the hype for Starfield draws ever so close, some developers at the studio have been working on the Tamriel fantasy sequel, which has now left the pre-production stage. Both Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 were revealed at the 2018 E3 event, with the former sci-fi RPG being way ahead in the release pipeline. For now, Bethesda is fully focused on its launch and potential post-launch support, and therefore, it'll be at least a few years before we hear any new details about TES 6.

The Elder Scrolls Online team has set a date for a special stream to detail the upcoming Endless Archive dungeon, along with more that’s coming in Update 40.

Even after Starfield's launch, don't expect to hear more about Bethesda's fantasy RPG anytime soon.