@lordbeefjerky: Yeah definitely. They actually did say that, though - that the game they envisioned making wasn't possible on current technology..
Todd Howard in 2016:
“We think very long term. We're not a developer that's going to rush something like this out. Any of our games. So when you think about, what is the future of that kind of game, we have a pretty good idea of what it would be, and it's just going to take technology and time that, really, we don't have necessarily right now.”
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