As far as I understand Bethesda have actually got a relatively small team for the size of games they make but it’s made up of lots of people who have been there for a long time so they have a good knowledge base with less people, rather than just brute forcing it by throwing 5000 people at a game like Ubisoft. Also we have no way of knowing what their contacts with Zenimax/MS say about sales bonuses.
As far as I understand Bethesda have actually got a relatively small team for the size of games they make but it’s made up of lots of people who have been there for a long time so they have a good knowledge base with less people, rather than just brute forcing it by throwing 5000 people at a game like Ubisoft. Also we have no way of knowing what their contacts with Zenimax/MS say about sales bonuses.