User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Elder Scrolls VI Possible Locations./@comment-11345660-20140110034416/@comment-24384528-20140111131248

Yes but you have to taki in account all of  fans that are on console or have weaker pcs, even the ones who have powerful machines would struggle with actual cities.

You could do a test yourself: spawn thousands of npcs in Solitude for example (your fps will fall drastically), now imagine scripting all of them (poor papyrus), multiply this for all of the holds plus towns and villages, it just wouldn't fit. See what i mean?

Also, if Bethesda does adopt MK writings (which, many of the new ones i don't agree with and imho are flawed and alienated), we should see guns in the Elder Scrolls Series pretty soon.