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The Elder Scrolls 6 is reportedly more than two years away, and some fans are not coping well
Theories that Bethesda is hinting at an earlier launch are already surfacing, and a few of them are pretty good.
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Yesterday, after eight years of waiting, Bethesda finally gave The Elder Scrolls 6 a title: Sentinel. It then warned that, after eight years of waiting, more waiting is in store because "it'll be some time before we're ready to share more." Then Bloomberg's Jason Schreier, one of the industry's best-known and most reliable reporters, weighed in, saying the game is "still more than two years away."
Schreier's 'two more years' statement, echoed by Jez Corden of Windows Central, attracted quite a range of comments, not all of them of the polite sort. That led Schreier to Reddit, where he could elaborate on his statement.
Pointing out his record of accurate calls on previous Bethesda releases Fallout 76 and Starfield, Schreier wrote, "I'm a reporter. I am not telling you this because I enjoy watching people get mad about having to wait for sequels to their favorite video games. I am telling you this because it is true, and because my job is to report accurate facts and clear up misinformation. TES6: Sentinel is more than two years away."
Did this clarification calm the roiling waters? Well...
Many of the replies are understanding, grateful, and sympathetic to Schreier's plight, but there are plenty that express doubt or distrust, suggesting that the two year window was pure speculation. Others want to know why Bethesda would drop the title announcement yesterday if the game really is that far out, given that Todd Howard has previously expressed regret about revealing The Elder Scrolls 6 so prematurely in the first place. Why repeat that mistake?
A few optimistic souls are holding onto the dream of a 2027 release that emerged from the reveal trailer for Skyrim on the Nintendo Switch 2:
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And then there are the Elder Scrolls fans operating on a whole different level from the rest of us. Redditor Reacryoum, for instance, thinks Bethesda is leading up to a surprise trailer drop on November 11—that's actually one of the more grounded theories to emerge over the past 24 hours. Casting back to one of Bethesda's old Twitter posts, Jayehemcee speculated that the theme of the game is "time," and that this is all part of the game's marketing. I'm not sure how that one works in practice, frankly, but I respect the ambition.