On 8 October 2018 at an interview with Eurogamer, when asked about when fans would get more information about Starfield and The Elder Scrolls VI, Pete Hines stated, "A while from now and a really long while from now! Respectively. The first thing we do is the world so we've known for a while where it's set." On 28 June 2018, Todd Howard stated in an interview at GameLab that the location of The Elder Scrolls VI had been decided upon "a while ago." When asked if it was possible to discern the location of the game from the teaser trailer shown at E3, Howard stated, "I obviously would say yes … You can rule some things out. He stated later in the interview that it would be released "longer than eventually," relative to Starfield being released "eventually." On 14 June 2018 at an interview with Rooster Teeth, Pete Hines stated that The Elder Scrolls VI will take place in Tamriel. He also said that the technology needed for the game is "getting closer." On 11 June 2018, Todd Howard noted in an interview that The Elder Scrolls VI is in "pre-production" and was not yet playable. On 10 June 2018, at E3 2018, the company released a teaser trailer for The Elder Scrolls VI. We're pretty clear, TES VI is not in dev." Pre-production On 9 August 2016, Pete Hines stated that The Elder Scrolls VI "isn't in development," clarifying on 18 October 2016 that "nobody is working on it." On 12 August, 2016, he said, "You're not going to be hearing first details on years before the game comes out, absolutely not." Īt E3 2017, Pete Hines stated in an interview that The Elder Scrolls VI was "down the road." He continued, "To reiterate, they have at least two major titles that they are working on before we're gonna get to Elder Scrolls VI. People will probably hear about those even before Elder Scrolls VI. it's something that's going to take a lot of time, what we have in mind for that game." Howard also commented during the same E3 2016 interview, "We actually have two other large projects we're also doing that are bigger than anything we've done. But it is-I have to be careful what I say-it's a very long way off. Valenwood, High Rock, and Hammerfell have all been locations across the Elder Scrolls universe as potentially suitable picks, and a tweet by the official Elder Scrolls account might have just revealed the latter to be the place of choice for Bethesda.On 9 August 2015, Todd Howard stated in an interview with DualShockers that The Elder Scrolls VI was not coming for a "very long time." Īt E3 2016, Todd Howard stated in an interview with Geoff Keighley, "Yes, of course we are.
However, he also went on to say that Skyrim: “didn’t go deep enough”, meaning the team might be looking at an even longer development cycle than what Elder Scrolls fans are used to seeing from the company.įollowing the release of Skyrim in 2011, fans have been speculating where the next installment in the series might take place. How do you make a game where you go into it, like, ‘people have to play it for a decade?” “I think that would drive me crazy to try to say, ‘Okay, this is the thing you have to top’ Then you realize, like, The Elder Scrolls 6 has got to be a ‘decade game’. Todd Howard has however revealed that the game is something the company wants to honor the legacy of the series and the game’s predecessor, saying: