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The Elder Scrolls 6 is unlikely to release for at least "five-plus" years. That's according to Xbox boss Phil Spencer, …

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[–] pitl@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

It feels like the hype for this game already died a year or two ago... let alone lasting five more years. There's nothing wrong with ensuring quality by having longer development cycles, but a nearly twenty year gap? They dropped the ball hard on maintaining momentum. Even worse, that means they'll be courting additional delays due to the usual hiccup of entering a new console generation and potentially having to tinker with the game engine mid-development...