After previously teasing a few major projects in the works, Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard has clarified the Fallout and The Elder Scrolls studio's current development slate.
Speaking with IGN, Howard said that, adding up all projects in various states of development, Bethesda Game Studios, the in-house development studio at Bethesda Softworks, has "seven [projects] going," including a new mobile game, though he clarified that two of those projects have already been properly announced. Fallout 4 in VR was revealed at E3 2016, while The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim for the Nintendo Switch was confirmed earlier this year.
"So some of those things are obviously of different scales," Howard said. In addition to those two announced projects, the mobile project would follow in the successful footsteps of Fallout Shelter, which itself Howard pointed to as an indication of the studio's ability to juggle multiple titles.
"We're always doing a lot of things, and once we get good momentum on something, that's what we'll focus on," Howard said, noting Fallout Shelter's production in the midst of Fallout 4's development.
There are two...bigger than anything we've done, kind of different [projects]," Howard said.
On the topic of Fallout 4, Howard also revealed that the game is currently playable "start to finish in VR."
"There's no content that we removed or changed [for VR]," Howard explained, noting that the current work being done on it is related to how players actually interact with the experience.
"It's interface work, it's other things," he said. "There are issues with locomotion, how you traverse that much space, and we're hoping to support as many modes as possible... It's not done yet, there's work to do, but the parts that are there, I'm biased but it's pretty incredible."
IGN had a chance to try out Fallout 4 in VR at E3 2016.
Howard also again referenced the two projects that are "bigger than anything we've done," which he previously discussed at last year's E3. Howard broadly described the two projects as "what I would call... kind of different, but still the kind of game people would associate with us."
He also previously said at E3 that the studio is working on The Elder Scrolls 6, but that it's so far off that at the time Howard said "people will probably hear about those [other two big projects] even before Elder Scrolls 6."
Howard is set to be inducted into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame at the 20th DICE Awards Ceremony on February 23. Stay tuned to IGN for more from DICE 2017.
Jonathon Dornbush is an Associate Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter @jmdornbush.
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