Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-27755354-20170619175519/@comment-1600847-20170620115833

Purrington wrote: Ah, I only learned now that Skyrim was only in development for 3 years. I always thought it was 4-5.

Still this latest news regarding ES6 makes my heart heavy with sorrow. Usually there's 1-2 years of "pre-production" before the game goes into full development, which usually takes BGS 3 years. IIRC, Skyrim started pre-production after Oblivion released (2006-2011). Fallout 4 took them a bit longer (2008 when Fallout 3 came out to Fallout 4's launch in 2015).