Elder Scrolls On Next-Generation Consoles?
By David Smith
6/16/2004
Developer Bethesda Softworks is staffing up in anticipation of development for next-generation consoles, as well as future games in the Elder Scrolls series, according to a pair of updates to its online help-wanted page.
The new advertisements seek a World Builder for the next Elder Scrolls game and a new programmer to work on general RPG development "for the PC and future-generation consoles." The last Elder Scrolls title, Morrowind, was developed for both the PC and Xbox, the first multiplatform game in the series.
Bethesda's current release slate is relatively lean. It's gearing up to publish the Headfirst-developed Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, but it has no big-ticket projects of its own announced as yet.
A new Elder Scrolls game could be very far off, given the series' traditionally lengthy development cycles. Morrowind took a good five years to progress from concept completion. As such, it wouldn't be surprising to see Bethesda targeting the next generation of consoles with its next RPG.
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