The Elder Scrolls 6 is "so far out" even Phil Spencer doesn't know what console it'll be on

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The one thing we know for sure about The Elder Scrolls 6 is that it's going to be a long, long time before any of us get to play it - so long, in fact, that even Xbox boss Phil Spencer doesn't know what platforms it'll be available on.

During today's hearings over the Xbox Activision deal, FTC lawyers asked Spencer about how Xbox decides which games will be exclusive to its consoles. Spencer said that the decision is made on a case-by-case basis. Starfield, of course, is exclusive to Xbox and PC, with no PlayStation version planned. Asked if The Elder Scrolls 6 would follow suit, Spencer said the game's so far out that the decision hasn't been made yet.

While The Elder Scrolls 6 has never been fully confirmed as an Xbox exclusive, Spencer did hint at that being the case in a 2021 interview. In today's questioning, however, he told the FTC's lawyers "I don’t know that I’ve made a public statement saying that. When I said it I believed it was [true], but if you ask me today I can’t recall a public statement."

Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.