Fallout New Vegas Chief Eager for Future Installment

Fallout: New Vegas director Josh Sawyer, in addition to several Fallout devs, have expressed interest in working on a new Fallout game, but there's a catch.

Fallout Devs Said They’d Be Willing to Work On New Series EntryBut It Depends On If They Can Do Something New

Fallout: New Vegas lead Josh Sawyer has communicated intent in undertaking a new Fallout production as long as he's provided ample creativity flexibility. In one segment of his Q&A sequence on YouTube, Sawyer stated he would willingly develop another Fallout title, but it would largely depend on what he's permitted to do: "Any project has to do with ‘what are we doing, what are the boundaries," he explained, "what am I permitted to do and not permitted** to do?'"

"If those constraints are just really limiting then it’s not appealing," Sawyer explained further, "because who wants to work on something where the one thing they want to explore is not achievable**?"

Apart from Sawyer, several Fallout developers have also communicated intent in returning to the series. Last year, Fallout co-creators Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky stated they would happily work on a remaster of Fallout: New Vegas. Speaking in an interview with The Gamer, Cain stated that, while they are keen on working on Fallout, his comeback would also be contingent on the level of creativity he's offered—if he's permitted to do something new.

"Every RPG I've ever made offered me something new and different that got me interested in making it," Cain explained. "It was the game itself that offered me something interesting that made me go 'Ooh, I want to do that, I've never done that.'" He added, "If someone came to me and stated, 'You want to make a Fallout game?' My answer is 'Well, what's new?' I didn't even want to make Fallout 2, why would I want to make a new Fallout? What's different about it?"

Obsidian CEO Feargus Urquhart has also expressed his interest in working on another Fallout game if the opportunity presents itself. Though, in an interview with Game Pressure published January last year, Urquhart confirmed at the time that a new Fallout game wasn't in the pipeline. "We’re not working on Fallout, and we haven’t even talked about what it would be," he said.

Urquhart went on to explain that their plate is "pretty full with Avowed, Grounded and Outer Worlds 2." "I don’t know when we’re going to start talking about new games, maybe towards the end of [2023]," he said. "But I’ll stick to what I said. I would love to make another Fallout before I retire. I don’t know when that is, I don’t have a date of my retirement. It’s funny, you can say I’m already 52, or only 52. It’s one of those two, depending on the day. My hope is that’ll happen, but we’ll have to wait and see."