Hi there. If you don't know me, I've been reporting on the video game industry for about 18 years, at Wired, Kotaku, and now Bloomberg. I've also written three bestselling books about the video game industry and I'm a co-host of Triple Click, a podcast about the Sopranos. Skyrim is one of my favorite games of all time, so I, too, can't wait for TESVI: Sentinel.
I've seen some of your reactions to my comments yesterday about Sentinel being 2+ years away so I wanted to come say hi. I understand your frustration. But it's also been giving me deja vu. Because this sort of thing has happened with every new BGS game over the last decade. Let's go back in time.
In late May, 2018, Bethesda began teasing a new Fallout game with a "Please stand by" image, followed by a teaser trailer posted on May 30 with John Denver's Take Me Home, Country Roads. (Link:
) The teaser trailer made fans believe that a proper new Fallout game was coming soon, just three years after Fallout 4. There was no indication that this was anything but a single-player game.
Later that day, I posted an article on Kotaku reporting that Fallout 76 was in fact an online survival game, despite Bethesda's marketing making it seem as if this was a regular entry in the franchise. (Link:
https://kotaku.com/sources-fallout-76-is-an-online-survival-rpg-1826425333)
That's when
r/fallout started to look a lot like
r/tesvi did this week. Wrote one commenter: "Bethesda has had Kotaku blacklisted for 5 years or so, so don't believe Jason Scheier 100% just yet" (
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fallout/comments/8ngxds/bethesda_has_had_kotaku_blacklisted_for_5_years/)
(I won't share the threats or antisemitic comments, but you can imagine what those might have looked like.)
We all know what Fallout 76 turned out to be.
Cut to: 2021. Various Twitter insiders started talking about how Starfield was almost done and planned for a 2021 release. (Links:
https://www.gamesradar.com/starfield-is-reportedly-aiming-to-launch-in-2021/,
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeak...edrake_from_era_starfield_targetting_2021_as/)
I came out to refute these rumors, telling people that Starfield was nowhere near completion, and I wrote on Twitter that the game would be announced at E3 2021 with a specific date in fall 2022. (Link:
https://x.com/jasonschreier/status/1395392859944198144?s=20)
Once again, skepticism ensued, until the game was announced at E3 2021 for release on 11-11-22. (Link:
) It was of course later delayed to 2023.
So here we are again. You have to understand: I'm a reporter. I am not telling you this because I enjoy watching people get mad about having to wait for sequels to their favorite video games. I am telling you this because it is true, and because my job is to report accurate facts and clear up misinformation. TESVI: Sentinel is more than 2 years away.
See you all next BGS game, I suppose...
Date un Decima a Bethesda
