The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim launched a couple of months ago, but that’s not stopping fans and industry analysts from predicting what Bethesda has planned for their next title in the franchise.
Notorious games analyst, Michael Pachter of Wedbush Securities thinks it’s a no-brainer when talking about The Elder Scrolls VI. When asked about the possibility of an Elder Scrolls VI title, the analyst pointed to the impressive sales statistics as the reason behind the continuation.
“I think Elder Scrolls is like James Bond, they can just keep re-inventing the franchise, it’ll never go away. The idea that the game sold 10 million copies, of course they’re gonna do another one,” the analyst said. “Maybe they’re gonna try to turn this [Skyrim] into a brand. We saw this with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the brand kind of became Modern Warfare. I don’t know if we’ll see another Skyrim or they’ll do something else, but of course they’re gonna do one.”
Whether or not Bethesda has any concrete plans for a next Elder Scrolls game is up for debate, Tamriel (A continent where the events of all The Elder Scrolls games take place) is a big place indeed, and with plenty of space to expand and a next generation console on the horizon, perhaps we’ll see Bethesda Game Studios repeat history with a new RPG to ring in the next generation of consoles.
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Analysts like this guy are idiots! This guy has no clue about the game he is talking about.. only how to exploit it, suck it dry of everything that makes games like The Elder Scrolls series so special and damned good and leave it dead and rotting like a draugh on a necromancers altar. He and his mentality are the reason great games turn into into the big crap sandwiches they do. One series that is currently in decline which jumps to mind thanks to this type of idiotic exploitative thinking is the Silent Hill series considering the current reviews of downpour pretty much have confirmed everything I feared it would be. He is dead wrong if he thinks that sales are the only thing that keeps a series like The Elder Scrolls going. Its the story(stupid!) and the quality thereof, the immenseness, the immersiveness, the overall depth and the character development that attracts people to great games to begin with (all things TES does very well) and gives them a loyal and ever growing fan-base which developers and publishers can depend on. With arseholes like this guy giving publishers their overpaid 'advice', we can only hope more and more publishers and developers ignore them and take a lesson from Bethesda's page where development is concerned.
Nice name