The Elder Scrolls 6 Teaser Is Now 6 Years Old — and Even Todd Howard Paused to Say, ‘Oh Wow That Has Been a While’
Remarkably, The Elder Scrolls 6 teaser trailer is six years old, an anniversary that made even Bethesda development chief Todd Howard pause for thought.
Bethesda teased The Elder Scrolls 6 at E3 2018 with a brief announcement video, below, that gave little away about the studio’s plans. Six years later and fans are still in the dark about what to expect from the hotly anticipated sequel, which won’t release until 2028 at the earliest.
Howard hasn't given much away since, and made typically vague comments in an interview with YouTube channel MrMattyPlays, but did reflect on the huge gap between The Elder Scrolls 6’s teaser and release.
“Now, it's the sixth anniversary of us releasing the teaser for Elder Scroll 6 — might be today — so that did make me pause and say, ‘oh wow that has been a while.’ And now that we're working on Elder Scroll 6 and we get to see it here in the studio, you know you do miss it.
“We appreciate all of those thoughts, and are with the fans on that. We’re working hard on it. And one day we’ll have it for everybody.”
If The Elder Scrolls 6 does launch in 2028, presumably on the next-generation of consoles as well as PC, it’ll do so an incredible 17 years after The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. Bethesda has released various games in the interim, most recently sci-fi RPG Starfield. But The Elder Scrolls 6 is Bethesda's next mainline single-player sequel, set to come out before Fallout 5, and of course fans are excited.
Elsewhere in the interview, Howard talked again about wanting to give The Elder Scrolls 6 long-term support: “Seeing what Skyrim has done or other games, for Elder Scrolls 6… yeah, I’ll just stop there,” Howard teased, before adding: “We know people are going to play it for a long time. So a game like that, it’s not just what it means for content. It goes further than that in the type of game, what it means for your character, what it means for other things to say, ‘hey can this be something that you come back to?’ We see that with Skyrim
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