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Despite previous reports revealing the game's 2026 release window, The Elder Scrolls VI is at least five years away and is likely to release, unsurprisingly, only on PC, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S.

Today, new court documents of the FTC vs. Microsoft case surfaced online, including a summary of Microsoft's approach following acquisitions since 2018, which includes all games released by Bethesda since its acquisition as well as the yet-to-be-released sixth entry in The Elder Scrolls series. According to the document, the game is not releasing on PlayStation 5, and its expected release window is 2026 or later. As reported on X/Twitter by Axios' Stephen Totilo, during the testimony at the hearing, Phil Spencer clarified the game's release date, saying that it is at least five years out, and that platforms have yet to be determined, although, back in 2022, Microsoft did say that The Elder Scrolls VI is unlikely to release on platforms other than PC and Xbox Series X|S.

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[-] pory@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

No way in hell they're gonna still be supporting the Series S in five years.

[-] khornechips@yiffit.net 13 points 1 year ago

I have a Series X, and I sort of hope they stop supporting it in 5 years. 30FPS is pretty rough in starfield as it is.

[-] Conyak@lemmy.tf 19 points 1 year ago

I don’t believe Bethesda can make a good game anymore. I lost hope for another good ES years ago.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Todd Howard has said ES 6 will be his last Elder Scrolls. That makes me really sad. I was hoping Starfield would be his last game.

I honestly think the only way ES6 could be good would be if the writers and environmental artists of Elder Scrolls Online are a huge part of it. The core Bethesda team has shown they can't write for shit anymore. And please please can the animators.

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I think they were kinda in the right place at the right time and accidentally released some classics lol.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago

You're getting downvoted but you're right. People who buy starfield need to accept to themselves that they enjoy bad games and rewarding the companies that make them.

[-] DaCookeyMonsta@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

If the people are enjoying it then it's not a bad game, it's a game you don't like.

Which is fine, spend your money where you want to.

[-] CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 year ago

People can like bad things. That’s why “guilty pleasures” exist.

For a long time I liked the Amazing Spider-man 2, but even then I could acknowledge that it was a terrible movie.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

If you enjoy Todd Howard laughing at you then that's fine. But at least admit you have a humiliation fetish.

[-] Crimfresh@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I imagine you must have a pretty sad life if you find yourself spending free time insulting people who enjoy something you don't like.

There must be some serious mental illness going on to spend time in threads about products you don't like. I don't like Ford vehicles, but I don't spend my time on Ford forums insulting them and their owners because I'm not a miserable loser with nothing to fill my time.

Go find something you enjoy. Nobody is interested in your pathetic trolling.

[-] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only thing worse than corporate cock sucking is this constant insistence that only positive opinions should be shared. If I wrote a dystopic novel about that I'd be criticized for being too heavy handed. And since enshittification is directly the fault of people like you, I'll piss on you all I'd like thanks.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

"You don't agree with me so you must have a mental illness".

Nice

[-] Crimfresh@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It has nothing to do with agreement. It's the premise of spending time in a forum for a product you don't like, and insulting everyone else. That screams mental illness and a miserable life.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lots of people want the game to be better and are upset it is what it is.

[-] adriator@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The official announcement teaser for The Elder Scrolls VI came out in June of 2018. That means Bethesda will have most likely started advertising the game a full decade before it came out, if the game is at least five years away at this point.

[-] Poggervania@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Wasn’t Cyberpunk 2077 released like, a decade after its original teaser trailer?

Anyways, Skyrim hasn’t aged gracefully, Fallout 4 sucked ass, Fallout 76 was less ass than Fallout 4 but still pretty ass, and from the sounds of it, Starfield was a resounding mediocrity. I’m really not in any rush to play another new Bethesda game given their recent track record lol.

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bethesda hasn't made a great game since Skyrim. And tbh, I probably look back on Skyrim more fondly than it deserves because I was in highschool when it came out.

I've played 30 hours of Starfield and feel like I didn't really have fun the whole time. It just felt like a 6/10 game. Very pretty, 10 miles wide, and an inch deep. And there's too much of it that is actually downright bad.

It's sad because Bethesda used to be the gold standard for RPGs, but their ambition is getting the best of them. It's very apparent in Starfield with all the empty space, the same 5 repeated planetary buildings, only like 3 types of enemies, and a severe lack of planet flora/fauna. And the missions are mostly really boring and not challenging.

I'm not hopeful that Elder Scrolls 6 is going to be anything better than mid-tier.

[-] Sordid@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bethesda hasn’t made a great game since Skyrim.

Since Morrowind. Skyrim wasn't bad, don't get me wrong, but it can't hold a candle to its granddaddy in terms of world-building and stat-based character advancement, which was sacrificed for the sake of action combat that is not even close to good enough to carry the game.

But here's the thing... Bethesda hadn't made a great game before Morrowind either. That was their big breakout hit, and ever since then they've just been remaking that same game with slightly different coats of paint hoping to catch lightning in a bottle for a second time. They used to make more varied and innovative games before that, but none of them was really all that good. Terminator: Future Shock had fully 3D environments and enemies and a mouselook control scheme a year before Quake, but there's a good reason why the latter game is remembered as one of the foundational pillars of the genre and the Bethesda offering lies forgotten.

So I agree with you that expecting TES6 to be amazing is naive, but I don't think it's because Bethesda has gotten worse. It has simply regressed to the mean.

their ambition is getting the best of them

Always has been. I haven't played Starfield yet, but from what I've read about it online, including your description, it sounds a hell of a lot like a sci-fi version of Daggerfall, which was insanely overambitious for its time. It's a shame they seem to have focused on making the graphics prettier rather than the procedural generation more complex and interesting.

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

my thoughts exactly. I said earlier they kinda accidentally made a masterpiece and have coasted since then

[-] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I've already set starfield aside lol. Glad for the people who are enjoying it but meh. Maybe it'll be better in a year or after the modding community finishes it

[-] Weirdfish@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I've always been a fan, but no way I'm buying a second system just for Bethesda games.

Yes, I bought a switch to play Zelda, but that's where I draw the line.

Skyrim has released on basically every platform that exists, I have to assume Starfield, and ES6, will eventually release on PS5. That is just too much money to leave on the table.

On the other hand, Demon Souls was spawned out of a failed PS exclusive to go head to head against Oblivion, and I'd dare say the souls series have given more to gaming than the past decade of Bethesda releases.

[-] Lojcs@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Xbox X Series +X user base in shambles

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