Bethesda confirms Oblivion update amid long wait for The Elder Scrolls 6

At long last, Bethesda has confirmed that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered will be getting its long-awaited update.

Although The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion is one of the most beloved RPGs of all time, it’s an entirely different story for the remaster released in 2025.

The Oblivion remaster was well-received back at launch, but it became immediately obvious to anyone playing the game on PC that it needed a few patches before the thing could be deemed playable.

Even over a year later, the remaster is plagued with bugs, crashes, and a huge number of performance issues. Players on high-end PCs still can’t get it to run at a solid framerate.

To make matters worse, the game hasn’t received an update in over a year, leaving players in doubt as to whether it’ll ever be made playable for those having issues.

When the Nintendo Switch 2 version of the remaster was announced earlier this year, it sparked hope that any patches and performance hijinks that Bethesda made to get it running on the portable hardware could be retroactively applied to the PC and console versions via a new update.

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The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered patch is coming thanks to Nintendo Switch 2 version

With the game now out on Nintendo Switch 2, Bethesda has confirmed that this will indeed be the case.

“We've heard your feedback asking for an additional patch for Oblivion Remastered,” Bethesda Game Studios writes on X (formerly Twitter).

“The Nintendo Switch 2 version of the game has a number of optimizations that we are looking into bringing to other platforms and we will share more when we are able.”

A date for the update isn’t given, but the fact that Bethesda has now acknowledged this seems to be a step in the right direction.

It should be good news for anyone who is struggling to run the remaster well on their PC. While the game seems to be running smoothly on console, it just seems to have some issues with certain PC setups.

And look, we get it. There are so many different kinds of PC hardware configurations that not everything is going to be running well there.

But even if your PC passes the minimum system requirements needed to play a game, there needs to be some guarantee that that game will actually run.

While all this goes on, Bethesda is still quietly chipping away at The Elder Scrolls VI, which began production shortly after the release of Starfield in 2023.

There have been a few teases about the game made over the years, including one made this week by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, but we haven’t had a full trailer or release window announcement just yet.

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