Fallout Season 2 Won’t Set a Canon New Vegas Ending — Your Choices Still Matter

If you were hoping Fallout season 2 would march into New Vegas and settle the eternal bar argument about which Fallout: New Vegas ending is the One True Canon, yeah... that is not happening.

The show is canon. Your specific New Vegas ending? Not locked down.

Co-showrunner Geneva Robertson-Dworet says the team deliberately dodged picking a single 'correct' New Vegas outcome for the Prime Video series. She told GamesRadar+ that this was a group decision with Bethesda's Todd Howard, executive producer Jonathan Nolan, fellow co-showrunner Graham Wagner, and the rest of the writers.

'We wanted to avoid making one particular ending correct from any of the games.'

Worth noting: the series itself absolutely is canon to Bethesda's Fallout universe. Howard has been clear about that since season 1, and Nolan has described the show as existing alongside the games the way the games exist alongside each other — functionally, he framed it as almost a TV-side Fallout 5. So the world and events count. They just won't erase your personal New Vegas playthrough by crowning one path as the definitive past.

How they pulled that off

Season 2 is set in New Vegas roughly 15 years after the events of Obsidian's 2010 RPG. Time has done what time does in the wasteland: things shift, alliances rot, somebody grabs a power vacuum and someone else bleeds for it. Vegas is familiar but not frozen in amber. The creative goal is to let as many player histories plausibly feed into the show's present as possible — while admitting there will be moments that won't line up with every choice you might have made.

Quick refresher: the big New Vegas endgames

• New California Republic vs. Caesar's Legion at Hoover Dam, with you siding to tilt the war.
• Mr. House triumphs and pursues his vision for the Strip.
• Yes Man clears the board, topples the major factions, and leaves an independent New Vegas.

Season 2 takes the smart route and says: whatever you did back then, it could have happened in this timeline somewhere along the way. Fifteen years of chaos later, the board looks different. Some landmarks and power players will feel the same, others will not. And the showrunners are teasing that those changes come with an implied backstory they want fans to chew on.

The bottom line

Fallout season 2 plants its flag in New Vegas without picking a winner from New Vegas. The show stays canon; your Courier's legacy stays yours. New Vegas, meanwhile, keeps doing what it does best: surviving the next fight.

Fallout season 2 hits Prime Video on December 17.