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Bethesda Game Studios showed a short teaser trailer at E3 2018 confirming The Elder Scrolls VI was in early development. Director Todd Howard has since reiterated, in various interviews, that the studio's priority order ran Starfield first and TES VI after, meaning full production picked up seriously once Starfield shipped. No release date, release window, platforms beyond "eventually current-gen," or gameplay has been officially shown since that 2018 teaser.
"It's not like we're not working on it. We are.", Todd Howard, on TES VI's development status, paraphrased from multiple public interviews.
Bethesda hasn't made a platform announcement specific to TES VI, but the surrounding context makes the likely answer fairly easy to read.
Microsoft completed its acquisition of Bethesda's parent company, ZeniMax Media, in 2021, bringing Bethesda Game Studios under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella. Starfield, the studio's first major release since that acquisition, launched as an Xbox and PC exclusive with no PlayStation release. Given that precedent, most industry observers expect The Elder Scrolls VI to follow the same path, though Bethesda has not made a formal platform statement for the game specifically, and plans can still shift before release.
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The leading fan theory, based on the teaser's terrain and a long-running "next game after Skyrim" wishlist that predates the announcement itself.
Fans are hoping for guild storylines that actually respond to earlier player choices, building on systems teased across Starfield and Fallout 4.
Deeper NPC schedules, meaningful climate and biome variety, playable werewolf-and-vampire progression, real naval travel. The wishlist threads are long, and everyone's list is a little different.
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