Bethesda Ported The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim to Xbox One

At the tail end of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim's development, Bethesda Game Studios was already hard at work on Fallout 4, even without knowing the specs of the hardware the game would release on. Microsoft and Sony communicated closely with Bethesda about the plans for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, but Bethesda didn't want to rush ahead and make Fallout 4 a launch title, a break in tradition as The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind and Oblivion were both launch window titles.

Bethesda instead viewed a longer development time frame – one that allowed the team to properly gather data before starting development on the new hardware. When I visited Bethesda Game Studios last month, Todd Howard and other key members from the development team walked me through Fallout 4's creation. Early on in our talks, Howard smiled at me and said, "The first thing we did was port Skyrim to Xbox One." After a brief pause, he quickly blurted out, "Don't get your hopes up yet."

This was strictly an exercise that allowed the team to understand the new hardware faster. Although Howard implied there's a chance of Skyrim coming to Xbox One with his "yet," I was led to believe there wasn't anything brewing at the moment.

Regardless, as we count the days until Fallout 4's release next Tuesday, we can dream about the idea of Skyrim, one of the previous gen's most beloved games, coming to new-gen hardware.

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Nooooooo, Bethesda, nooooo, release that! That is such a terrible tease ;__;

Or just play it on the PC the way it was meant to be played lol. The game looked fantastic at 60 FPS on PC, no need to play a cheap console port.

Don't have a gaming PC, not planning on hopping on the brigade any time soon. Adored Skyrim regardless, and would love for a current generation remaster :)

If they do bring it to Xbox One I will buy it on one condition, if they update the combat.

That'd be awesome, but I would honestly just take it as is.

Don't like Skyrim.

Didn't you win a steam copy of MGS V a while back?

I remember the thread for it. did you just give that away?

Brother plays it using my account.

ah k.

"PC Master race hurr"

Lol the people you have to put up with. :P

On topic

Can't say it bothers me. ES has never had good combat, so I can live without it.

60 dollar remaster FTW

As much better as it ended up being on this platform thanks to mods, judging by the UI, general area, dungeon, and mechanics design, this game was clearly meant for consoles.

People still want to play this game? move on guys play new games...

I'll take the "yet" in the "don't get your hopes up yet" as a good sign. Skyrim is one of the few remasters I would buy day one, if the price is right. And yes I do have the Steam version with mods, but I would play through it again on the Xbone or PS4 if it came out. The game is just that good in my opinion.

Incredible game but I don't think I have the time to replay it if it ever comes to XOne

@charizard1605: In all honesty I would probably get it day one even if nothing was done XD. That game had my soul in its grasp for around 400 hours.

I'd maybe buy it... That or grab a cheap PC version and mod the hell out of it. Still, they should definitely release it... It'd probably sell pretty decently.

Oh please, if it was made with the consoles in mind it would have been better on consoles no?

jeez another bloody remaster?

Vanilla Skyrim arguably is better on 360, I suppose. The menus aren't a bitch to navigate on it anyway. It's the mod support that pushes the PC version over the edge.

And lolPS3version

Maybe it's something that could launch exclusively on the Xbox One with the next Elder Scrolls game. Obviously this was a development test, but it's already ported so the work is done.

Yeah, I think it's the better graphics and playability that makes it better on PC. I've never heard anyone argue that Skyrim was better on Xbox vanilla or otherwise. I mean everything you can do on console in Skyrim you can do on the PC version whilst also looking better on PC.

100% not better on consoles is this game.

If they've ported it anyway, I'm sure they'll end up releasing it.

Bolded part for truth. However, that still doesn't mean the game wasn't designed for consoles and around their limitations. Remember the memory limit at launch? Or how the shadows were downgraded from Oblivion because the PS360 couldn't handle them? The low res muddy textures before that official pack came in months afterwards? The awful pop-in?

And that makes it a better version on consoles...... how?

I'm not saying that the version that the consoles has is vertainly not downgraded, but attributing a glitch and some low res textures to it being designed for consoles is a stretch.

Designed with consoles in mind is probably about right, not designed for consoles. The fact it is clearly a better game on PC should tell you it was made with PC in mind.

Well, Skyrim was garbage, so hopefully we won't see any more of it.

@Postosuchus: The console vs PC version of SKyrim has been tackled before anyway.

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/pc-mac-linux-society-1000004/skyrim-on-pc-is-it-better-then-console-version-29364692/

I can never play a Bethesda game on consoles again. Being able to customize every aspect of Skyrim on PC is just too damn good.

Skyrim this many years on on a console?

I never said it was better on consoles, just designed for them. Even vanilla the framerate alone makes it a better choice than the PS360

To each there own but I'm not sure how anyone could experience the vanilla UI, or the massive amounts of mouse acceleration that STILL requires one to go into the .cfg file to disable, and claim the game was made with PC in mind.

Since they're introducing mods on Xbox One with Fallout 4, I could see them also adding modding options if they release this port.

Yeah we are arguing semantics now, i never had any issue with the UI or the mouse. The layout was basically the same as Oblivion and Morrowind. 100% designed for PC then ported over to console.

That's just what I did. Best kind of remaster there is :)

That only became true much later. I was one of the suckers that bought the PC version at launch. It was filled with bugs, more so than the console counterparts, not to mention the poor SLI support and blue textures

Would this count as another AAA title for XBONE like how Cows say PS4 got that Journey and TLOU port?

Skyrim would need A LOT of work before I'd touch it again. What a boring, clunky game.

"Don't get your hopes up yet."

Elder Scrolls on consoles. Disgusting.

Agree with the hermits on this one.

Skyrim is sh*t on PS3.

Played it on PC, such a good and addicting game.

Console based Bethesda games will never be superior to their pc counter part as long as they have no access to console command.

Honestly while I liked Skyrim can't say I'm willing to spend 60 dollars again for the game and I bought the legendary edition after the base game release. Just I can't unless there is really some bonus content added. It was like buy the handsome collection for xbox one. Yeah I owned borderlands 2 but with that collect I got the 60 FPS update along with borderlands pre-sequel which I did not own.

Bethesda has a lot of love for the ONE. If it doesn't show up in BC, Bethesda will do Xbox gamers right as usual and release Skyrim.

I loved the game, I would buy it.

they are leaving money on the table by not releasing that.. surely they will eventually?

Stop making shitty clickbait titles

Why would anyone want to play this garbage? One of the most overrated games ever made. Even *IF* (won't be the case) Behtesda were to release this game on Ultra setting for the Bone, the game still looks atrocious without mods. Poor graphics, probably 30fps, no mod support, laughable story and all side quests and the combat system is as bad as you will find in a video game. Why the **** would anyone buy this!?

Well I didn't play the DLC for Skyrim so this will be a treat for me :)

I want the entire Fallout series ported to current Gen but it's never gonna happen.