{"id":85203,"date":"2026-07-01T06:24:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85203"},"modified":"2026-07-01T07:36:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:36:53","slug":"with-xbox-speeding-up-work-on-new-fallout-games-one-former-bethesda-dev-warns-faster-sequels-risk-fan-fatigue-but-could-new-vegas-developer-obsidian-be-drafted-in-to-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85203","title":{"rendered":"With Xbox Speeding Up Work on New Fallout Games, One Former Bethesda Dev Warns Faster Sequels &#8216;Risk Fan Fatigue&#8217; \u2014 but Could New Vegas Developer Obsidian Be Drafted in to Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>New Xbox boss Asha Sharma is reportedly speeding up development on new The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Halo games as she prepares to hit the \u201creset\u201d button on Microsoft\u2019s gaming business. Now, Fallout fans are wondering what this means for new games in the post-apocalyptic franchise, while one former Fallout developer has cautioned against pumping out more big new Fallout games faster.<\/p>\n<p>The last mainline Fallout video game was 2018\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/fallout-76\">Fallout 76<\/a>, which added multiplayer elements to the traditionally single-player open world role-playing series. It is now over a decade since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/fallout-4\">Fallout 4<\/a> came out. The promised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/fallout-5\">Fallout 5<\/a>, which will not arrive until after The Elder Scrolls 6, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/fallout-5-will-exist-in-a-world-where-the-stories-and-events-of-the-show-happened-or-are-happening-todd-howard-confirms\">seems a long way away indeed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Could Bethesda follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/the-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remastered\">The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered<\/a> and release a remaster of Fallout 3 or New Vegas, or perhaps even a Fallout: New Vegas 2 as a stop gap? In a recent interview with IGN, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/bethesda-chief-todd-howard-says-fallout-is-the-franchise-that-were-doing-the-most-in-right-now-coy-on-potential-return-to-new-vegas-or-a-fallout-3-remaster-while-fans-wait-for-fallout-5\">Howard remained coy on the possibility<\/a>, although remasters are reportedly still in the works.<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"every-ign-fallout-review\" data-value=\"every-ign-fallout-review\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Either way, it seems clear that Microsoft wants more from Fallout as well as its other big hitters, and Fallout fans themselves are keen to find out what\u2019s next from the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Xbox boss Asha Sharma is reportedly speeding up development on new The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Halo games as she prepares to hit the \u201creset\u201d button on Microsoft\u2019s gaming business. Now, Fallout fans are wondering what this means for new games in the post-apocalyptic franchise, while one former Fallout developer has cautioned against pumping&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":85205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85207,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85203\/revisions\/85207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}