Todd Howard hints at a potential The Elder Scrolls 6 release date

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The Elder Scrolls 6 might not be ready🎀 to release until 2026, according to𓆉 a new interview with Todd Howard.

In an interview with , it was put to Howard that "it's going to be roughly, probably, 15 years between Elder Scrolls games" because of Bethesda's current focus on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Starfield. A 15-year gap from Sky⛦rim's original release in 2011 would mean a follow-up could potentially arrive in 2026.

Howard doesn't definitively confirm or deny that estimate, stating that "people can do the math with what our schedules look like," but did state earlier in the interview that "when you're making a game, it takes 4-5 years." With the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Starfield release date set for November 2022, a development cycle of that length could mean 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Elder Scrolls 6 arrives in 2026 or 2027.

That's not a problem by itself, as Howard points out that the ongoing success of both Skyrim and The Elder Scrolls help keep the franchise "vibrant" and healthy, but also notes t𒉰hat that proposed 15-year gap isn't necessarily ideal. It was, however, probably necessary, as he acknowledges that Starfield was someth🌞ing of a "now or never" project for Bethesda, which the company might never have made if they'd gone straight to the next Elder Scrolls game.

The development cycles attached to those games mean that it might be 2030 before we get to see 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fallout 5. The game exists as a "one-pager" at Bethesda right now, but four or five years after that Elder Scrolls window means we might not return to the Wasteland for a ꦐdecade🎉.

Todd Howard wants people to be playing The Elder Scrolls 6 for "a decade at least."

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