“And I think Todd and his team have earned the right, given the quality of this stuff, to be able to say, ‘We know everybody really wants Elder Scrolls VI, but we as creative people want to be able to do stuff that we’re really passionate about.’ And I think once you see how the next two titles come out and then how Elder Scrolls 6 ties into what those games are doing and about, I think it’ll all make sense. They wanted to be able to self-determine things they worked on next, whether it was existing stuff whether it was new IP. “And you’ve got a lot of people in that studio who have been there for a really long time. “Quite honestly, they didn’t want to be the developer that was just Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Elder Scrolls, Fallout for the rest of their development careers,” Hines admitted. “It is multiple big releases down the plan for those folks. “ The Elder Scrolls VI will eventually be made,” Hines said.
While it was announced earlier this year that the newest instalment in the series is still not in production, an interview with Pete Hines, VP of PR and marketing at Bethesda Game Studios, indicates that there is still hope in the future, but that the company want to spread their wings and work on a few other projects as well.