Former Elder Scrolls designer Kurt Kuhlmann discusses how Fallout: New Vegas developed a particularly devoted fanbase, and suggests this may have influenced Bethesda’s approach to The Elder Scrolls. He says he is unsure whether director Todd Howard wanted to recreate that situation, apparently referring to comparisons and expectations surrounding future games.

The available article text provides no further reliable details about Kuhlmann’s comments, the interview’s wider context, or specific figures. Its central point is that the intense loyalty surrounding New Vegas may have been viewed as a complicated legacy Bethesda did not necessarily want to repeat with The Elder Scrolls.