Hear me out, Bethesda hasn’t made a really successful game since Skyrim. their new overlords are more than happy to shuffle them around, and who’s to say Todd Howard won’t retire after TES6 is launched?
I’m seeing a lot of parallels to Bioware, with game after game not doing as hot as the previous ones, and XBOX being very trigger happy with axing studios that aren’t pulling their weight, similar to EA.
It’s possible TES6, if it releases, will be the make it or break it of the company.
Not yet.
Microsoft usually squeezes out a couple games in their studio purchases before dumping them. What we’ll probably see is them push for a fallout game being worked alongside TES6 to capitalize on the TV show’s success. Quality may suffer with that split attention from a studio used to doing one monolithic game at a time