Xbox Showcase Gave Us New Elder Scrolls But The Big Question Remains Unanswered

The future of Xbox is fruitful, green, and exactly what we've been asking for.

Under the new leadership of CEO Asha Sharma, Xbox has made a string of wonderful choices to appease its players, and that was all topped off with a games showcase that included some exclusive, banger titles.

But while it's all sunshine and rainbows in most of Microsoft's departments, one studio is casting a grey cloud with no solitude in sight.

Bethesda.

The famed studio took to the Xbox Game Showcase on June 7 to finally give us some more Fallout and Elder Scrolls content, but fans have all been left with the same deflated expression as Bethesda left the stage without answering the big question.

Bethesda Drops Elder Scrolls Update, But Not The One We Wanted

In the time since we got Oblivion (and its remaster), we've long been searching for the next Elder Scrolls game.

Yet, despite a Skyrim successor in the works, it's been nearly ten years since the sixth mainline game was announced, as Bethesda continues to leave us all wanting more.

In the most recent showcase, fans mustered hope (again), and Elder Scrolls delivered, sort of.

A new Thieves Guild mission was announced by the studio, which also took to the floor to present a new Fallout 76 update.

But the Thieves Guild questline is an addition to The Elder Scrolls Online, rather than a first look at number six.

Admittedly, the refreshed look at the fabled band of rascals and rapscallions was delightful, dripped in the mysterious, shrouded veils that made the side quests so good in Skyrim.

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But immediately after the event, The Elder Scrolls fans took to Reddit to confirm the death of the elusive title that seems destined to never be released.

"I know it was a teaser but not having anything to show us after nearly 10 years is a bit ridiculous," one fan said on an 'RIP Bethesda' post.

"At this point mate we all going to run out of life expectancy years," added a second.

A third agreed, but pointed out that the game is built up so high that the final product will never be able to live up to the hype (if it does come).

"Honestly, after all this time waiting, I feel like no matter what ES6 is going to be disappointing. I think it's time to tune out of the Elder Scrolls," they said.

Others defended the choice to pour resourced in The Elder Scrolls Online and Fallout 76, knowing that they are profitable titles that can only help the development of other products.

"ESO and FO76 are printing money for almost no effort while most of the studio is working on TES6. They're doing absolutely fantastic for a game studio," a fourth person argued.

We can't help but think that The Elder Scrolls 6 will come to compete with The Witcher 4 in the next two years, but we've all held that level of copium before.

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