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My theory is Mobile gaming (King) was the key here.

Outside of that it's simply to try and narrow the (surprisingly large) Exclusives gap Sony has been enjoying the last decade or so.

> They own all the IP required to do a followup to Fallout New Vegas and NOTHING

I mean - didn't the team that would work on that launch Starfield in the last month?

Starfield was developed by Bethesda Game Studios. Fallout: New Vegas was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks.

> I mean - didn't the team that would work on that launch Starfield in the last month?

Yep. Although one could argue there are are other studios who could be tapped to make a sequel.

No, actually. New Vegas was not developed by Bethesda. It was published by Bethesda. It was developed by Obsidian which Microsoft also owns.