If no news is good news, then what does that mean for news that's about there being no news? This is perhaps a question best pondered by more capable minds, but I feel the answer might apply here.
The Elder Scrolls VI was announced during Bethesda's E3 2018 showcase, and if you recall, the accompanying trailer featured a brief flyover of a generic-but-probably-fantasy-inspired landscape that was then capped off with the game's logo. We knew the game was a ways away, but because Bethesda didn't really have anything else going for it at the time, they needed to put something out for fans to get excited about.
We're now in the darkest timeline of the year 2020, and it's just been reaffirmed that The Elder Scrolls VI is still little more than what that initial trailer showed us. I don't know about you, but I'm beginning to think that society could collapse before this game ever sees the light of day.
In response to a fan's tweet asking whether or not we'll be hearing more about the next Elder Scrolls in the near future, Bethesda's Pete Hines indicates that the game is still many years away, and seems to lament the fact there is any expectation to the contrary.
According to Hines, Bethesda is in the thick of development on Starfield - another game that is almost entirely shrouded in mystery and still an undetermined length of time away from release. To put things into perspective, The Elder Scrolls VI's development won't even fully commence until after Starfield. In other words, it's probably best that we wipe Bethesda's E3 2018 announcement from our collective memory so we can get on with our lives.
