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The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel Will Show Us Just How Serious Xbox Is About Exclusivity

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The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel Will Show Us Just How Serious Xbox Is About Exclusivity

This is an IGN opinion piece from Ryan McCaffrey, IGN's "Xbox guy" and host of Xbox Unlocked.

The Elder Scrolls 6 finally has a full title: The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel. That means we know where it’s set (in the region of Hammerfell), and we know…well, that’s about it for now. We don’t know how it’ll look, what the story will be, or when it will be released. By all accounts, Sentinel is still years away – likely at least two – which leads to a couple of very interesting and very critical questions for Xbox: will it be a day-one launch title for the next-gen Xbox console/gaming PC hybrid codenamed Project Helix? And the even bigger question, will it be an Xbox console exclusive?

Before you laugh at the mere suggestion of that latter question, let’s review our gaming history. It wouldn’t be the first time an Elder Scrolls game was exclusive to Xbox. In fact, it’s happened twice before! The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind introduced Bethesda’s RPG series to the console audience, and it did that solely via the original Xbox in 2002, as Morrowind never came to PlayStation. Its next-gen follow-up (and my favorite game in the series so far ), The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion, was supposed to be a launch title for the Xbox 360. It didn’t quite make day one, but it helped usher in the HD Era just four months later in March 2006, and became a de facto Xbox exclusive by virtue of the fact that the PS3 didn’t come out until the Fall of that year.


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