Bethesda Softworks is not known for its work on Nintendo consoles. In the States, the last Bethesda game to grace a Nintendo system was 2008’s Ducati Moto for the Nintendo DS. Our European brethren managed to try out Wheelspin for the Wii. We’ll just go ahead and say that the pickings have been slim.
For the most part, the House of The Elder Scrolls has stuck to PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. Does that mean they will stay away from the Big N? Finder.com.au recently had a talk with Bethesda vice-president Pete Hines and asked them that very same thing. Here is his response:
We talk to Nintendo all the time – we’re pretty well briefed in on what they are doing. It’s definitely something we will look at; and our philosophy is that we will put our games out on any format that supports the games as we envisage and make them. If the NX fits that from a technical standpoint, and fits the game that a developer in our stable is making, I don’t see why we would not put it out on NX. But it’s too early to say, ‘we’ll definitely be putting games out or not.’ Like with mobile, we want to have the right fit for the right formats. It’s definitely a possibility for the future. We’ll look at any platform that will support that games we’re trying to make, but that’s the key thing – the console has to support the game as it is designed.
Although the message is not negative, the truth is that the prospects of seeing a mainline Bethesda game on the NX are slim. The last sentence spells it out: Bethesda wants the console to accommodate their vision, not the reverse. Bethesda’s most popular games have not been able to be shoehorned into the Wii or Wii U. Unless the NX has some real horsepower in it, titles like Fallout 4 or Doom will not run properly on it.
However, Bethesda is at least showing that they keep themselves abreast of all happenings in the land of Mario and Zelda. If they see something they like, they seem poised to jump in.
