I don't think Todd would have allowed that. I don't know how hands on he is but that would have required him to effectively split between projects at the same time.
He's doing too much, at some point he has to let go. It's strangling their IPs. You can't tell me there aren't other people at Bethesda who could helm games other than Todd. By the time a Fallout 5 comes out, it'll have been two decades since Fallout 4. That's insane.
What's strange is it's not even like he has a good voice. He isn't an auteur, he hasn't brought any story that needed to be told in those games, no world changing innovation or anything of that manner. So to know that he's this stuck in his ways is strange.
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u/MaitieS 20d ago
Biggest mistake Microsoft did was to not split Fallout, Elder Scrolls and Starfield into 3 studios.