Bethesda announced The Elder Scrolls 6 in 2018, which was eight long years ago. The gap between Skyrim's release and that announcement was only seven years. It's been long enough for Elder Scrolls fans to go a bit feral about it.
So when Xbox CCO Matt Booty gave Variety a post-SGF debrief interview, discussing topics like the absence of Arkane's Blade from the Xbox Showcase (he hinted we might hear more on that front later in the year), you better believe the topic of The Elder Scrolls 6 came up. Why wasn't it part of this year's Xbox Showcase?
"I would say one of the more challenging balancing acts of someone in a job like mine is balancing that you want to go show the world all the cool stuff you're working on," Booty said, "and you want to get them excited early, but we also know that we want to wait till the right moment. And when you decide to show it, you want it to be the best you've got. And also that when you show the game, you're also giving them a promise of, hey, it's coming soon. So I can tell you, having visited Bethesda and sat with Todd [Howard] and...
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