Bethesda is putting in a lot of work on Starfield
Bethesda is putting a lot of effort into Starfield, their most recent game that received a lot of attention when it was first released on PC and Xbox. However, after the initial excitement, player support for Starfield waned, and now Skyrim has more players on Steam.
Todd Howard spoke with Wired about his long career as a video game creator. In the future, he hopes that the next time he sees Wired, they’ll have a copy of The Elder Scrolls 6 on the table
Bethesda is putting a lot of effort into Starfield, their most recent game that received a lot of attention when it was first released on PC and Xbox. However, after the initial excitement, player support for Starfield waned, and now Skyrim has more players on Steam.
“If we meet again, there will be an Elder Scrolls 6 here [on the table]. You’re talking to me, but there’s 450 people here [working for Bethesda]. And we still have people that work on Fallout 76 and a team there doing updates for these games.”
The video game developer revealed that approximately 250 developers, or approximately 55% of Bethesda’s 450-person team, are still working on Starfield. “We have about 250 [people] on Starfield. These [games] only exist because of all of those people and us working together. That’s why the games are so big. That’s why there’s so many moving parts and so many interesting things that people will find is that comes from everybody here.”
However, the extensive support for Starfield suggests that The Elder Scrolls 6 may have a longer wait, with an estimated 150 developers currently working on the game.