New Fallout And Elder Scrolls Games At The Top Of Xbox CEO's Priority List
Topics: The Elder Scrolls, The Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, Bethesda, Xbox, Microsoft
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Topics: The Elder Scrolls, The Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, Bethesda, Xbox, Microsoft
After Bethesda went another year without a new game release, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is reportedly coming down hard on the in-house developers to push more titles out.
It's an ongoing trope that The Elder Scrolls 6 doesn't exist and will never happen, but in this last week alone, Bethesda has been subject to two huge statements from Xbox.
On Thursday, Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty revealed that he'd visited the studio and claimed that The Elder Scrolls 6 is playable and 'amazing', following backlash at its omission from the showcase earlier in the week.
Now, it seems that CEO Asha Sharma has her eyes set on Bethesda and other in-house studios, and wants more than just one game every decade.
According to a report from The Information (via Reuters), which also detailed the fact that Microsoft considered selling its entire gaming fleet, the Xbox CEO is planning to pour reallocated resources into flagship franchises Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, and Halo.
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The plan is to shorten development cycles to ensure that we don't end up with a ten-year gap between Elder Scrolls 6 and 7.
Of course, this doesn't mean that we're any closer to seeing the long-awaited sixth game. Skyrim, first released in 2011, still thrives today thanks to years of mod support and has taken a lot of the pressure off the studios' shoulders.
Currently, there is no outline for an Elder Scrolls 6 release date.
This also stokes fire into the Fallout franchise, which gets its first positive update in months, after the fifth instalment of the mainline series appeared to be in doubt.
Then there's Halo, which is already on track for a well-needed boost, thanks to the upcoming Campaign Evolved.
But it's certainly a huge statement from Sharma.
The report directly supports the words from the Xbox CEO from earlier this week.
"We are the fortunate stewards of industry-defining franchises that have enormous potential and player demand, but we have not adequately funded them to compete and win," Sharma said in a blog post on Wednesday.
"At the same time, as we saw this past weekend at Showcase, a reliable pipeline of first- and third-party exclusives and new IP are critical to our success.
"We need to reassess the balance between these and our investment priorities for the next five years."
There's a clear intent that Xbox wants to improve everything that it has going on in-house before relying on third-party games, which could be a smart move, knowing how strong PlayStation is with exclusives, ahead of a next-gen console war.
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