Gaming @beehaw.org Bri Guy @sopuli.xyz 1 yr. ago

The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026

www.theverge.com The Elder Scrolls VI will skip PS5 and isn’t coming until at least 2026

Not exactly surprising.

Games @sh.itjust.works nanoUFO @sh.itjust.works 1 yr. ago

www.theverge.com /2023/9/18/23878504/the-elder-scrolls-6-2026-release-xbox-exclusive

Xbox @lemmy.world QuantumEyetanglement @lemmy.one 1 yr. ago

The Elder Scrolls 6 will be Xbox-exclusive and isn’t coming until at least 2026

www.theverge.com /2023/9/18/23878504/the-elder-scrolls-6-2026-release-xbox-exclusive

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I would be surprised if it released in 2026.
Shit, if they haven't started it yet, it better not be coming out in 2026. I want at least four years of peaceful development without them rushing it and burning out the devs. I want good stories and plenty of werewolf content. And no gamebreaking bugs like Cyberpunk, whose campaign got glitched for me.
- And no gamebreaking bugs
  
  ...with Bethesda? You'll have to wait for the community patch.
- To be fair a game like elder scrolls might even need a whole decade of proper development to avoid gamebreaking bugs, Skyrim took 6 years and we got the civil war quest line..
- If there's not plenty of werewolf content I'm sure modders will fix that. "Other" kind of content too I'm sure. :3
  
  As much fun as werewolf penis is, I want real story development, haha. Questlines, explore the affliction, marginalized werewolf underground societies, maybe even a remote village where everyone, men/women/children are werewolves and/or other types of were creatures? I feel like there's plenty to explore aside from the yiff and relationship type stuff!
The Elder Scrolls is the best series I've stopped caring about.
Hehe. ES6 may become the longest/farthest postponed game since Beyond Good and Evil 2, the later now saying it will be released in 2025... maybe 😂
- Baldur's Gate 3 comes to mind. It was announced in 2002 and launched in 2023. They even had to cut all the content about black hounds.
  
  But bg3 black hounds wasn't Larian. That was Blackisle and it got canceled. It wasn't the same game or the same studio.
- Star Citizen might take the cake, I say as an original Kickstarter backer of Star Citizen.
  
  What's the current state of that? Haven't really kept up with SC news for years mow.
- The previous world record holder before BG&E2 was Duke Nukem Forever which took 14 years to develop and 9 years from the initial announcement in 2001 to the release in 2010.
  
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Oh goddamnit, another creation engine game?!
- a wholly new engine would almost certainly break mods or atleast make them harder to make as janky as creation engine can be it's the best engine for modding there is and bethesda games absolutely need modding and not just cause the glitches
  
  I'm out of breath from reading this.
  
  A new engine would just have to have a new mod API. Plenty of engines have mod APIs. Nothing's really stopping them, but they really love driving creation engine onward for some reason.
- We used to blame the Bethesda jank on their last engine, Game ryo. Safe to say that it's not the engine at this point.
  
  Creation Engine is based on Gamebryo.
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30 fps on a not very good looking game full of bugs

Cant wait to pirate it
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  Disagree. It takes very little time to pirate something. Anything.
  
  Also, there are a lot of numbers between 0 and 60 that someone may be willing to pay to play a game. But for a modern game with DLC and stuff, more like 120.
  
  It's not about being worth playing - it's about not being worth the money asked for, along with the scummy practices. Sometimes it's a stance.
  
  And for some, it's purely financial decision.
Judging by Starfield, they need all the time they can possibly get. It's gonna be a long'un.
Obviously
I'm pretty sure Elder Scrolls 6 never existed and was just made up to distract people from all the overreaction to Creation Club.
That puts it at “at least” 15 years after the last entry in the series

Hard to imagine it will have much of a fan base
- But Bethesda could very well release a Skyrim Extra Special Edition in the interim, and fans will lap it up, no doubt. Jokes aside, there are many large fan-projects in the works which fans are looking forward to, such such as OpenMW, Skyblivion and Skywind, not to mention more "normal" mods for Skyrim itself, so I doubt the interest in the franchise is going away any time soon.
- To be fair, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 came out in the 90s.
  
  I would have attributed it’s success to the success of Divinity and DnD
Wait we are expecting new consoles by 2026?
- Bad title. Will be console exclusive. Not saying it will be next gen.
  
  Well, Xbox and PC exclusive.
- Why wouldn't we? The PS5 is already 3* years old, most cycles are around 7 years
- That’s what I was wondering. Do they know something? I would’ve assumed ps5 have enough tech to get to 2026
  
  Pretty sure this is referring to platform exclusives and not next-gen consoles.
ES7 won’t come until 2050
- And be released anually until homo sapiens is no more.
  
  So probably around 2052?
- todd howard wont be leading es7. es6 and fo5 are his last
  
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A document released as part of the FTC v. Microsoft case confirms what was long expected: The Elder Scrolls VI isn’t going to launch for a few years, and it isn’t coming to PlayStation.

And much like Bethesda’s most recent games — Starfield and Redfall — it’ll be available on both PC and Xbox when it does launch.

In a statement about exclusivity attached to The Elder Scrolls VI section of the chart, which comes from an interview with Xbox head Phil Spencer in GQ, Spencer said, “In order to be on Xbox, I want us to be able to bring the full complete package of what we have.

The Elder Scrolls VI was first revealed back in 2018, though we haven’t heard much about Bethesda’s next fantasy adventure since then.

That would include Starfield, The Elder Scrolls VI, and the upcoming Indiana Jones game.

This reveal is just part of a deluge of new details that came out of the case today, including Microsoft’s plan to stream PC cloud games, Activision Blizzard’s briefing on the next Nintendo Switch, and Microsoft’s reaction to the PS5 announcement.

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I could have sworn they mentioned targeting 2026 years ago when the teaser trailer dropped. I’m honestly surprised that it hasn’t been pushed back further with everything that happened with the studio in the years since.
- Considering the chart still lists Starfield's release date as "H1 2023", it was probably made before Starfield's delay and Spencer's comments on it being 5+ years away are probably more in line with their current outlook.
Company Losing Market Share to Competitor With Exclusive Games Bought Studios To Make Their Own Exclusive Games
Wouldnt it skip all future playstation consoles anyway?
So we can expect Fallout in what, 2035?
PS6 CONFIRMED! 😂
Not a bad thing tbh.

Better to do that than deliver a game that can’t run properly on a certain gen, like CDPR did with Cyberpunk.

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