With Bethesda channeling their efforts on the next release of "Fallout 4," fans of "Elder Scrolls" will have to wait a little bit longer for the sixth installment.
Amid the release of "Fallout 4" in November, it appears like "Elder Scroll 6" has to be put on hold indefinitely as incessant support will be offered for the role playing game in terms of patches and bug fixes. A single team is behind the development of the two games and essentially would not consider dividing themselves to work on two projects at ago.
Talking to MCV UK, Bethesda's marketing vice president Peter Hines said, "I think Fallout 4 can top Skyrim and be our biggest release ever. But we will see. It is part of my job to build the megaphone that we hold up to the game, and the game decides how loud it goes. Just how big it is going to be is hard to say. 'Skyrim' was a massively big deal."
Just two day after its launch in November 2011, "Elder Scrolls" sold 3.4 million copies. By June 2013, the franchise had sold more than 20 million copies.
Hines further indicated that it is a rare incident to have a franchise like "Elder Scrolls" and have people joking about when "Skyrim 2" is being released. According to him, people say so because that is what one will be receiving with a different publisher in charge.
He added, "They'd be spitting out a Skyrim 2 the year after or two years later. That's just not how we view it."
The executive calling "Elder Scrolls" as "Skyrim 2" implies that the game will not be a follow up on "Morrowind" or "Oblivion," Inquisitr reported. According to some fans, the plot will revolve around Argonia or Black Marsh, but it is unconfirmed.
The publication added that definitive information for "Elder Scrolls 6" may surface in the course of 2017.