It seems like people can't get enough of Bethesda's role-playing games; last year Fallout 4 beat Bethesda's in-house record to become its fastest selling game; following on from that success, the publisher released a Special Edition of Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and once again a Bethesda RPG sold really, really well. If industry analyst Michael Pachter is to be believed, we're not too far away from something that a lot of us are waiting for: Elder Scrolls VI.
This claim was made during his predictions for 2017 over on Games Industry, where he and several analysts tried to foretell what will happen next year. It's worth pointing out that Pachter's predictions from 2015 were included as well, and he was on point with them (including NX not releasing 2016 and Miitomo being a commercial failure).
Unfortunately, there is evidence he may not be correct in his prediction regarding Elder Scrolls VI in 2017... and that's straight out of the horse's mouth. Pete Hines, VP of PR/Marketing at Bethesda, tweets: "Sorry @michaelpachter but you totally punted this one. You should listen to me (and Todd) more often. :-)"
And there you have it. There is likely to be no new core Elder Scrolls game next year, but we're still hopeful it might get revealed or that Bethesda has something else RPG-related in store for us in 2017.