The Elder Scrolls 6is one of the most highly anticipated games to yet have an official release date, and this is true despite the abysmal lack of information about anything surrounding it, including its main region. Many fans have been speculating for a long time that the most appropriate andlikely region forThe Elder Scrolls 6is Hammerfell, but this is largely based on the only piece of information Bethesda provided fans with: the teaser trailer from E3 2018. While many editions ofSkyrimhave come and gone over the past 11 years, Bethesda has been oddly silent about the next installment inThe Elder Scrollssaga, to the point that fans know it exists just because of that same teaser trailer from over four years ago.
Starfieldis an all-hands-on-deck situation for Bethesda, and while it makes sense that this is the case considering the size and scope of this upcoming title, it’s been over 1600 days without any sort of update forThe Elder Scrolls 6. According to Pete Parsons' comments,The Elder Scrolls 6is not coming any time beforeFable 4, and the latest leaks suggest that it could launch in October of next year. However, withStarfield’s release date being moved to the first half of 2023, there’s a strong possibility that the next trailer forThe Elder Scrolls 6will not come before the end of 2023 at the earliest.
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Starfield’s Release Date and The Impact on The Elder Scrolls 6’s Future
In order not to divert all the hype fromStarfield’s upcoming release, it makes a lot of sense for Bethesda to push any further big announcement back, up until the sci-fi exploration game is finally out and about. While the company hasn’t pinpointed an exact release date forStarfieldyet, it’s more likely that it will come out in the spring than it is in the first quarter of 2023, and that’s dangerously close to the fifth anniversary of the aforementioned E3 2018 teaser trailer forThe Elder Scrolls 6.
Since it remains a very unlikely chance thatThe Elder Scrolls 6shows up anytime next year before June, the teaser trailer that Bethesda shared with fans will probably turn five before anything else is known. This is a strange case because games tend to leak online much sooner than in the past, and even big titles likeThe Last of Us 2andGrand Theft Auto 6are proof of this, meaning that Bethesda is likely keeping its cards very close to the chest.
November 11 is a big date for the studio, to the point thatStarfield’s initial release date was planned for this year’s November 11, on the eleventh anniversary ofSkyrim. As such, it’s possible that November 11 will be involved to some degree withThe Elder Scrolls 6, meaning that its second trailer ever could drop on this day next year, or maybe that the game will launch on this date in the future, further down the line. Regardless, with so much energy going intoStarfield, the next installment ofThe Elder Scrollssaga is likely still years away.
Overall, fans shouldn’t expect to hear anything aboutThe Elder Scrolls 6for a while, and there’s a chance the game won’t even be out before 2025. However, Bethesda does have a habit of revealing games more in detail and then launch them shortly thereafter, meaning that the same treatment could be reserved for the studio’s popular saga. Fans will have to keep waiting, unfortunately, butStarfieldmight just make that time more pleasant once it comes out.
