Fallout 5 tease has The Elder Scrolls 6 fans concerned

The Elder Scrolls 6 fans are still waiting for crumbs of new info, and the latest Fallout 5 teaser hasn’t got their hopes up.

Earlier this week, a new report by Windows Central’s Jez Corden claimed that Fallout 5 had been “greenlit”, suggesting that early production could be not far behind.

The report also suggests that the cancelled ZeniMax Online MMO, which was codename Blackbird, was canned to create more funding for a new Fallout RPG.

“From what I heard, it was a case of 'Do we want to sink a ton of money into getting this [project Blackbird] to a point where it can compete with the established players in the market, or do we want to allocate that investment towards making Fallout 5?'”, Corden stated.

Of course, Fallout fans must be over the moon by this, assuming it means we finally get a new game in the series within the next decade. But The Elder Scrolls fans are less enthusiastic.

“So in which phase is Scrolls 6?” wrote a disgruntled fan on the Gaming Leaks and Rumours Reddit page.

“It's still in the ‘Don't worry guys! The game is definitely coming, eventually, some day’ phase,” wrote another.

Some fans pointed out that it’s been seven years since The Elder Scrolls 6 was officially announced, and yet there’s still been nothing.

One added wrote: “It was pretty obvious to me that they basically announced both Starfield and TES6 at the end of the [Fallout] 76 showcase just because they knew making a multi-player live service game would be controversial, so those teasers were basically just their way of saying ‘don't worry guys, we are still making single player RPGs!’ To try and calm people down.”

The Elder Scrolls 6 is currently in production, but Bethesda has not released any trailers or screenshots beyond that first vague teaser from E3 2018.

As for when we could see the first proper trailer or images, my money’s on 2026. It will have been around three years since The Elder Scrolls 6 moved out of pre-production, which seems like the right amount of time to produce a trailer.

It’s pretty different from the release schedule of Fallout 4 though, which was announced and released within the same year. What a wild time for video games that was.