I'm not sure this is how it works, the profits from Skyrim may have been pocketed long time ago by the private investors. Since they don't seem willing to reinvest some of that money in a new engine, it's pretty clear to me they want to keep the status quo: maximum profit with minimum investment, it worked well until Fallout 76 happened. Now that Fallout 76 failed its purpose to print money, BGS might also have a harder time than before to pitch a high buget for a game.
It's because the game wasn't in active development all those years, in part due to Skyrim selling like hotcakes. There was no incentive for them to release another one any time soon.
Ditto. My interest in Bethesda games is presently in the "hmm... nah" stage. It can look pretty, it can sound nice, and it can run well, but if it's not fun, engaging, and mechanically deep, I'm not going to bother.
it'll still be on dat sweet sweet skyrim engine too.
Why don't they change the engine? It's been a decade they should have done it and they are still gonna use an upgraded version of their old engine. Why not learn a new engine even if it take 1-2 year to learn it properly...
For right or wrong, BGS has certain design goals and objectives that they will not budge from. The creation engine is the best tool for them to use based on how they want to create open worlds. The more important question is how hard will they work on the renderer, scripting etc to overhaul it. If they don't try and borderline gut the engine to suit the more power they'll have with next generation consoles, then what's the point?
