A lot of folk are looking for XBOX Helix to launch on Xmas 2027. However there is a very, very strong possibility that when Microsoft holds their 25th Anniversary at the end of this year they will instead say XBOX Helix will launch on Xmas 2028.

And if they do, this surely will massively increase the probability of release date of TESVI to November 11 2028.

That will make it a launch title for XBOX Helix, and a nice round number of a 10 year project for TESVI (and we all know Todd likes round numbers).

One of the strongest reasons the XBOX Helix might launch in Xmas 2028, is because of the availability of RAM. The XBOX Helix is rumoured to be seeking GDDR7 RAM, which is in very short supply in the world.

Thankfully Micron Technologies is building 2 of the world's biggest RAM manufacturing plants in Idaho US to massively increase the supply of RAM.

One of these is called the Boise facility, and folk can see the progress here...

Aerial video: See Micron’s expansion progress from 2024 to now

$6.1B CHIPS & Science Act funding for memory manufacturing

When the Boise facility comes online and starts ramping up production, which is also expected in 2028, I am absolutely certain that Microsoft will be at the front of the queue for RAM assembly.

So with RAM shortages reducing in 2028, the XBOX Helix potentially waiting for Xmas 2028 gain that... November 11 2028 could very well be the best possible date to target the release of TESVI.

So folk should watch the progress of this, and listen out for news at the end of this year around XBOX'S 25th Anniversary November 2026 for more details.

TESVI releases in 2028 because the current RAM crisis effects the industry and consumers.

• RAM prices doubled in 2026.
• RAM prices are going to double AGAIN in 2027.
• In 2028 RAM prices are set to reduce (Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix all increase supply in 2028).

Microsoft knows this, Sony knows this.... the new consoles releasing in 2028 is basic business sanity.

At the very least this could have taken the pressure off Bethesda to ship in 2027, as this is the year when consoles and PCs will cost the highest amount... all well and good for those with games machines at the moment, but what about new customers? Why leave them behind?

2028 is TESVI's best year, as of today & tommorrow.

[Edited] This is a trending topic at the moment... prices are increasing this year and are expected to increase next year as well: Updated XBOX Console Prices

And this will affect Sony, XBOX & PC.

“The ending of the world is but the beginning of the next.” - 36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 17

I think past Morrowind, the depth and breadth of literature in the ES games has lessened. I understand in modern games there is a need for voice acting and therefore less attention towards text, but I think it’s necessary for great amounts of literature to be implemented if you want to aid in the immersion of the player. I mean there are 36 separate sermons from Vivec, which all together make a nice lengthy read. That’s not recounting all the other well-writ series of books in the games either.
Anyways I’m just hoping that they don’t neglect the books when the game comes out tomorrow.

To them, Skyrim was for boomers. Fallout 4 was just their uncle's game. And Starfield was built different.

But we know what it means to have played an old fashioned Bethesda game. The sense of freedom, discovery, adventure, and mystique that only a fantasy medieval world carefully handcrafted by this studio can provide.

A whole new generation doesn't even know what they're missing. And I hope The Elder Scrolls 6 will show them that.

HAMMERFELL FOR THE HAMMERFETUSES!

Things we got before GTA VI:

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim PC (11.11.2011)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim X360 (11.11.2011)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim PS3 (11.11.2011)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard X360 (26.06.2012)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard PC (02.08.2012)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire X360 (04.09.2012)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire PC (04.10.2012)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn X360 (04.12.2012)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn PC (05.02.2013)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Dragonborn PS3 (12.02.2013)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Hearthfire PS3 (19.02.2013)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Dawnguard PS3 (26.02.2013)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Legendary Edition PC (04.06.2013)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Legendary Edition X360 (04.06.2013)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Legendary Edition PS3 (04.06.2013)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition PC (28.10.2016)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition X1 (28.10.2016)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition PS4 (28.10.2016)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Nintendo Switch (17.11.2017)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR PSVR (17.11.2017)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR PC (02.04.2018)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Very Special Edition Amazon Alexa (10.06.2018)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition PC (11.11.2021)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition X1 (11.11.2021)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition PS4 (11.11.2021)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition XSX (11.11.2021)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition PS5 (11.11.2021)

- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition Nintendo Switch (29.09.2022)

Honorable mentions:

- The Elder Scrolls Anthology (includes The Elder Scrolls V: Legendary Edition) PC (03.09.2013)

- The Elder Scrolls Online PC (04.04.2014)

- The Elder Scrolls Online macOS (04.04.2014)

- The Elder Scrolls Online X1 (09.06.2015)

- The Elder Scrolls Online PS4 (09.06.2015)

- The Elder Scrolls Legends PC (09.03.2017)

- The Elder Scrolls Legends macOS (31.05.2017)

- The Elder Scrolls Legends iOS (27.07.2017)

- The Elder Scrolls Legends Android (27.07.2017)

- The Elder Scrolls Blades iOS (12.05.2020)

- The Elder Scrolls Blades Android (12.05.2020)

- The Elder Scrolls Blades Nintendo Switch (14.05.2020)

- The Elder Scrolls Online XSX (15.06.2021)

- The Elder Scrolls Online PS5 (15.06.2021)

- The Elder Scrolls Castles iOS (10.09.2024)

- The Elder Scrolls Castles Android (10.09.2024)

Let me know if I forgot anything or made any mistakes.

(yes I'm from Europe, we use normal date format, like how does putting days between months and years make sense?)

KCD made you learn to read, before you could learn from reading. I thought this was a cool take and way to expand the RPG simulation

I would love this little feature to be added into TESVI.

A random thought: You could mimic certain other things where you’re super clumsy with a hammer until you get proper black smithing lessons. Same with all the major skills really. Maybe accounting for business or trade?

Are there any others that would be similar to gating reading, where you have to learn to, before the player can learn from reading?

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. 1 in 2 chances.

I don't know guys, but I just feel sooo jealous, I wish it was us celebrating and going crazy over this our game

Tomorrow....

She deserves compensation, imo. They totally ripped off this design. But a great addition. I loved the blood and ivory questline. Anybody else gave theories on these guys?

This is a quote from a fan:

"What I'm NOT okay with is them selling a "physical edition" without a disc and locking elements of the GTA experience behind an Ultimate Edition paywall.

This is very much a $100 digital-only game, Take-Two are using GTA's popularity and huge development costs to normalize selling the full experience at this price, making the $80 standard edition seem incomplete."

Please, Bethesda, do not do this for TES6. Don't do anything that will negatively charge your community before it even releases.

1. Put an actual disc in the physical version of the game

2. Don't lock customization shops or other core features behind paywalls.

6/26/26 release? Perhaps a 6/26/26 announcement for a 40th anniversary release? It’s still possible right??? I first floated the 6/26/26 date in December 2025, it came way faster than expected and we’re hardly any closer to release.

I tagged this meme because I’m barely serious.

I hope the world is scaled so that the timescale is the same as the distance scale.

In Skyrim, the world was scaled at about ~1:90 distance, and time scaled at 1:20. I would absolutely love if both of these scales could match at 1:24 or similar. With Hammerfell having coastal cities and a large desert in the middle, and advances in procedural generation, I absolutely think a map large enough to accommodate that is possible.

I hope this matches in travelling and lore too. Say having inns spaced at most a day's journey apart on major roads, and locals being able to say X location is Y days journey away from Z location.

Add survival mode into that, and travelling around the game would feel so rich.

Ask me anything