Microsoft could be interested in having original Fallout New Vegas developer Obsidian create a sequel the classic RPG according to Venturebeat’s Jeff Grubb. On his show Grubbsnax, Grubb claims that now that Obsidian and Bethesda are both owned by Microsoft, Fallout New Vegas 2 could be a very real possibility (via VCG):
This is very early, but people have begun to have talks and say these words in sentences, and those words are ‘Obsidian’ and ‘New Vegas 2.’ We’re talking years and years away. There’s at least an interest and conversations happening about making something like that actually a reality. A lot of people at Microsoft think that this could work and there’s a lot of interest to make it happen.
Fallout New Vegas was a spinoff to the original Fallout series set in Arizona, California and Nevada, and was released in 2010. The game was reviewed well by critics and loved by fans of the series. Since its release the beloved RPG has become considered one of if not the best game in the series, and so desire for a sequel is naturally high. Since Bethesda owns the license to the franchise, this was not considered possible until Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Bethesda in 2021, which brought both developers under one roof. Microsoft had previously acquired Obsidian in 2018.
In 2013 Feargus Urquart, CEO of Obsidian made claims that he was up to making a sequel to the hit RPG, outlining some ideas he had for the game:
Oh, we’d love to do Fallout: New Vegas 2. It would be awesome. If I think of going from Fallout 1 to Fallout 2, we tried to associate the two areas somewhat closely. It wasn’t just ‘Oh, we’re gonna do this 2,000 miles from here.’ So I think if we were to do Fallout: New Vegas 2 — or just a new Fallout — we would probably separate it from what the internal team at Bethesda’s doing. We’d keep it on the West Coast, because we’re West Coast people. They’re East Coast, so it makes sense.
It is currently whether these statements hold true today, or when this sequel would even begin development as Obsidian currently has its hands full developing it’s new RPG Avowed, as well as the survival game Grounded and another as yet unannounced game.
Stay tuned at Gaming Instincts via Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook for more gaming news.
Includes several titles.
Which was showcased at E3 2003.