Bethesda boss Todd Howard has confirmed the studio is planning future Fallout video games. Chatting with Variety, Howard stated Bethesda is “all the time” interested by what’s subsequent within the recreation sequence, and this additionally applies to Fallout. These feedback usually are not shocking provided that Howard, years in the past, began speaking about plans for Fallout 5.
“Games take a very good five-ish years. So we’re in plans for future video games on this sequence, and nothing to speak about proper now, however we’re all the time planning,” he stated.
With the Fallout TV present successful reward from critics, and a second season developing, many are questioning if Bethesda goes to attempt to capitalize with a brand new recreation launch. As Howard talked about, video games take a very long time to make, so Fallout 5 or anything that may come subsequent will not be right here quickly.
For now, although, the success of the Fallout TV present helped Fallout 76’s lifetime playerbase surge past 20 million, with older Fallout video games additionally seeing a bump.
“Relying on the Fallout recreation, you are a 4-6x enhance in each day gamers, which is past something I’ve ever seen in my 30 years of doing this,” Howard stated. “Having an occasion that brings that many individuals into video games that you’ve and who’ve by no means performed your video games earlier than, that is an enormous factor. New gamers who’ve by no means performed a recreation or by no means performed considered one of our video games. It is a actually, actually distinctive second.”
Fallout 5 is probably going nonetheless a very long time off. In any case, Howard beforehand stated Bethesda will launch The Elder Scrolls VI first, after which Fallout 5, and nobody ought to anticipate both recreation to launch anytime quickly. Whether or not or not Bethesda has plans for added Fallout titles past Fallout 5 stays to be seen.
It is not simply Bethesda considering this fashion. PlayStation boss Hermen Hulst lately stated Sony is trying to assist develop its gaming viewers by means of transmedia diversifications like HBO’s The Final of Us.