Bethesda: Elder Scrolls 6 won't be revealed until it's ready to release

It's been five years since Skyrim released, and every passing year makes fans of Bethesda's Elder Scrolls RPG series a little more rabid for the next installment. But unlike Skyrim, Bethesda's vice president Pete Hines says Elder Scrolls 6 won't be teased and hyped for long. Instead, it will be a surprise much like Fallout 4, which was announced in early summer and released in fall of the same year.

ELDER SCROLLS 6is in development at Bethesda, who have spoken more on their next ambitious Xbox One and PS4 project's release date, as well as the upcomingSkyrim Special Edition.

The Elder Scrolls 6: What Kind of DLC Should Bethesda Aim For?

All of this is to say that with the upcoming The Elder Scrolls 6 – and we know it’s coming eventually, even if it is a few years away from release – Bethesda need to look at their older games like Oblivion and Fallout 3 for guidance on DLC support, not Skyrim or especially Fallout 4. With the competition now outdoing them in this regard, too – CD Projekt RED’s Hearts of Stone and Blood of Wine expansions for The Witcher 3 may rank as some of the best post launch support a game has ever received – this is another area the company risks being left behind in, if they don’t do something about it.

And considering how pioneering Bethesda’s DLC policies generally used to be, that would be a dan shame, if it happened.