More Than 8 Years on From Its Announcement, The Elder Scrolls 6 Is Reportedly Still at Least 2 More Years From Release

More than 8 years connected from its authoritative announcement, The Elder Scrolls 6 is inactive astatine slightest 2 much years from release.

That's according to Bloomberg newsman Jason Schreier, speaking past nighttime during a unrecorded Q&A discussing this week's melodramatic changes astatine Xbox which person seen 1,600 unit made redundant and astatine slightest 4 studios chopped from the company's roster. A further 1,600 occupation losses are presently planned implicit the people of this year.

Doom developer id Software was gutted, arsenic was ZeniMax Online Studios, developer of The Elder Scrolls Online. In an email to Bethesda unit sent pursuing the announcement of the cuts, Bethesda brag Jill Braff said the institution volition present treble down connected its "strongest franchises," which suggests the likes of Fallout and — yes — The Elder Scrolls. But IGN besides understands that layoffs person taken spot wrong Bethesda Game Studios among unit moving connected TES 6.

All of which begs the question of erstwhile TES 6 volition yet launch, and whether Xbox tin bash thing to marque bully connected its plans to velocity up the game's improvement without compromising connected its prime — and clasp backmost from impacting its squad further successful aboriginal rounds of layoffs.

Bethesda main Todd Howard formally announced The Elder Scrolls 6 during the company's E3 property league successful Los Angeles backmost successful June 2018, via a CGI trailer which revealed precise little. In the years since, fans person seen thing more. While fewer dared to anticipation that June's Xbox Game Showcase would yet spot the rubric re-emerge, determination has been a increasing consciousness of interest among fans who are starting to interest astir however agelong it's taking for the sequel to the all-conquering Skyrim to really release.

The past clip Todd Howard talked astir The Elder Scrolls 6 was successful March 2026, erstwhile helium joked that we should each unreal Bethesda hadn't announced it. This is simply a recurring theme; successful February, Howard admitted — erstwhile again — that helium would person preferred not to person announced the crippled truthful early.

Howard warned anxious fans arsenic precocious arsenic past November that the crippled is "still a agelong mode off," and has adjacent teased that helium whitethorn conscionable shadow-drop it. He reiterated successful February that "it's gonna beryllium a portion yet," and confirmed that, "We're capable to play it, we're astir to walk a large milestone internally, the bulk of the workplace is connected the crippled and immoderate of our partners."

In a caller interrogation with Variety, Xbox main contented serviceman Matt Booty suggested that erstwhile Bethesda does get astir to showing disconnected The Elder Scrolls 6, it volition awesome that the crippled itself volition beryllium released soon. Booty besides offered immoderate reassurance, saying he’s visited Bethesda to ticker the crippled being played, and "it’s coming on well." As for erstwhile the uncover volition be… "at the close time."

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social