Amid the breakout success of Prime Video’s Fallout TV present, followers of the online game upon which it was primarily based questioned why Bethesda and dad or mum firm Microsoft didn’t launch a model new Fallout sport so as to capitalize on heightened curiosity within the post-apocalyptic franchise.
Instead, participant numbers for present Fallout video games, corresponding to Fallout 76, Fallout 4, and even the older video games spiked. A missed alternative, maybe?
As reported by Inverse, Microsoft gaming chief Phil Spencer touched on this situation whereas talking at New York’s annual Paley International Summit. While Spencer acknowledged the dearth of a brand new Fallout sport, he did insist everybody concerned ended up benefiting from it.
“We did not have a brand new sport lined up for the launch,” Spencer mentioned. “I truly suppose that gave us some artistic liberty that [we] would not have had if we tried to coordinate manufacturing of two very totally different artistic processes to land on the similar time.”
That point out of “artistic liberty” is a reference to the Fallout TV present’s canon standing throughout the Fallout timeline, and the very fact it takes place in any case the prevailing Fallout video games. While this has meant Fallout lore followers have analyzed the TV present to inside an inch of its life, its creators had been capable of transfer on from what’s gone earlier than and inform a model new story. If a brand new post-Fallout 4 online game had come out on the similar time, Bethesda and the TV showrunners would have confronted a difficult job making certain all their Fallout timeline geese had been in a row.
Of course, a model new Fallout sport is coming down the pipe, with Bethesda growth chief Todd Howard confirming Fallout 5 is within the long-term plan, doubtlessly after The Elder Scrolls 6 comes out. For Microsoft’s half, it’s snug lacking out on TV show-fuelled gross sales of a brand new Fallout sport. “The play is rather more long run than attempting to drive some present shopping for,” Spencer mentioned.
This tallies with feedback made by Howard again in June. Then, the Bethesda Softworks head mentioned he wasn’t concerned with speeding the subsequent Fallout sport out the door.
“For different Fallout video games sooner or later, , clearly I can’t speak about these proper now, however I’d say, kind of speeding by means of them, or we sort of have to get stuff out that’s totally different than the work we’re doing in 76… we don’t really feel like we have to rush any of that,” he mentioned. “The Fallout TV present fills a sure area of interest by way of the franchise and storytelling.”
Speaking of the Fallout TV present, the hotly anticipated Season 2 is at present filming in Los Angeles. Expect loads extra flashbacks, showrunner Jonathan Nolan mentioned. The query is, will a brand new Fallout online game make it in time for Season 2?
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