Skyrim‘s re-release is just a fake bullet before the new Elder Scrolls.

Bethesda‘s E3 conference featured Skyrim’s Special Edition, which will be available for the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One, but the PC will also receive the re-release. However, Todd Howard has confirmed that Bethesda is already working on The Elder Scrolls VI in his interview with IGN.

„Elder Scrolls 6 is kind of like the elephant in the room, always, when we talk about anything,” Howard explained, “and you know, I think it’s good in these moments to tell our fans, yes, of course, we are working on it – it’s something we love – but it is… you know, I have to be careful what I say, it’s a very long way off. I could sit here and explain the game to you, and you would say, ‘That sounds like you don’t even have the technology. How long is that going to take?’ So it is something that’s going to take a lot of time, what he have in mind for that game, and we have two other large projects we’re also doing that are bigger than everything we’ve done. People will probably hear about those even before Elder Scrolls 6. That’ll make sense many years from now.”

If the console generations as we know them today will cease to exist by constantly upgrading the PS4 and the X1, then no, but if this PS4NEO/X1 Scorpio is just a one-time mid-gen update, then yes, we might only see The Elder Scrolls on the PS5/X2 (?), aka the next generation.

In the video below you can see a comparison between the 2011 original Skyrim and the PS4 Special Edition side-by-side.