Bethesda Has Had "Conversations" About Third-Party Fallout Games Like New Vegas
Fallout 5 won't start development until after The Elder Scrolls 6 launches, so we're a long way off from the next numbered game in the series, but the Amazon show has ignited a newfound hype in the franchise. So, the question is whether a third party will develop a spin-off akin to Obsidian's New Vegas in the meantime.
As reported by VGC, Todd Howard claims that Bethesda has always been open to the idea, and that despite conspiracies from fans of him being upset at the popularity of New Vegas, he loves the game.
Xbox, who owns Bethesda as of 2021, is reportedly planning to release another Fallout "sooner rather than later" . Jez Corden of Windows Central added that he even thinks we'll see a new game "this decade", i.e. within the next six years.
"We've always had those conversations," Howard said in an interview with Kinda Funny Games. "We did a lot of things for the show. It might seem like there isn't a big new game out, but we added content to 76 for the show. 76 has a really great map expansion that's coming this summer with Skyline Valley.
"They did an amazing job with New Vegas. I can’t speak to things that we’re doing with the franchise in the future, obviously, but New Vegas is a very, very important game to us and our fans. We think they did an incredible job.”
Microsoft now owns three studios with Fallout baked into their DNA. There's Bethesda, which currently owns the rights; Obsidian, which not only developed New Vegas - based on ideas from the original Fallout 3, Van Buren - but was also founded by former Black Isle employees (the developer behind the original Fallouts); and inXile Entertainment, which was founded by Interplay co-founder Brian Fargo (also the developer behind the original Fallouts).
Obsidian and inXile both have Fallout spiritual successors in The Outer Worlds and Wasteland, the former following the first-person shooter style of Bethesda and the latter the classic, isometric, turn-based approach. With all three studios now
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