Just after the latest sci-fi open world masterpiece “Starry Sky” created by Bethesda officially opened this week for players who pre-ordered the deluxe version to play first, the team also confirmed that another long-planned key work “The Elder Scrolls 6” has finally left The pre-production stage officially entered the preliminary development stage.
At the E3 press conference in 2018, Bethesda officially announced to players through a simple trailer that they are planning two large-scale works, “Starry Sky” and “The Elder Scrolls 6”. This sequel to a classic fantasy RPG is in the “pre-production” stage, that is, the most basic conceptual planning, and production has not yet started. Now, five years later, a work that was released at that time is about to be officially launched, which means that Bethesda can finally devote more resources to the development of “The Elder Scrolls 6”.
In a recent interview with the Spanish website Vandal, Bethesda VP Pete Hines said that “The Elder Scrolls 6” has indeed entered the so-called preliminary development stage, and even so, players may have to wait a long time before seeing them. Reveal more follow-up news about this fantasy RPG masterpiece.
“Yes, a lot of people are already working on Elder Scrolls 6, but Starfield is still the main focus right now. So, you won’t be hearing much about The Elder Scrolls anytime soon 6 “. “Starry Sky” is the work we are focusing on at this stage, and it will be the top priority for the next period of time, and then we will start discussing other works.” Pete Hines said
Although most players know that there is still not much news about “The Elder Scrolls 6”, it is still good news to hear that this fantasy RPG sequel has officially left the design stage and entered production. After all, the Bethesda team has been emphasizing that they have to wait until “Starry Sky” is completed and fully launched before starting to gradually invest resources in the development of “The Elder Scrolls 6”.
Just in October 2018, when the generation of PS4 and Xbox One had not yet ended, Bethesda had hinted that “Starry Sky” and “The Elder Scrolls 6” might be launched on the new console of the next generation, producer Todd Howard said in 2019 In an interview with the IGN website, it was confirmed that “Starry Sky” will be launched earlier than “The Elder Scrolls 6”, because Bethesda Games Studios hopes to break away from the inherent RPG brand and create a new original sci-fi IP. It will take a while longer to see the launch of “The Elder Scrolls 6”. By the end of 2020, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles will also be officially launched, and the latter will become the exclusive distribution console of “Starry Sky” because of Microsoft’s acquisition of Bethesda. As for whether “The Elder Scrolls 6” will wait until the next generation Debut is currently unknown.
For now, one of the initial concepts of the Bethesda team for “The Elder Scrolls 6” is to allow players to continue playing for 10 years. As for the background setting, story and other details, it has not yet been disclosed. After all, Bethesda will not reveal too many details about this aspect to players before the game officially enters the development stage.
At the same time, although Todd Howard understands that such a long time gap between “The Elder Scrolls 5” and “The Elder Scrolls 6” is not a good thing, he also believes that the development of “Starry Sky” is an opportunity that they must grasp, Even so, he hopes to get the next Elder Scrolls game out sooner rather than later.
