» Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:52 am
What OverlordX said.
New Vegas or no, Obsidian was never going to be working on patching a Bethesda game. So it's not like one is going to have much of an effect on the other in the first place.
Second, there's often this misconception that working on putting out a new game means that a company is ignoring problems with the previous one. While that might be the case (at times, theoretically,) it's also worth noting that the team working on bug fixes and the team working on new content aren't always the same people.
For example - let's say for the sake of argument that Bethesda decided they were going to start working on Fallout 4. The majority of the team working on that game aren't going to be taking resources away from any work on bug-fixing Fallout 3. The writers, modellers, artists, lead designers, etc - these guys don't troubleshoot glitches anyway. So even if a company is working on a new game when in your opinion they also need to be working on patches - the two aren't necessarily all that related.