Waiting for a Fallout game is starting to feel a little bit like waiting for The Winds of Winter to come out, having been played in a Vault-Tec experiment to wait it out. At least that’s how it’s felt since Fallout 4 was released more than a decade ago. The Elder Scrolls VI is still somewhere on the horizon, and Bethesda’s development pipeline has not exactly been moving at radroach speed, but despite all that, the franchise has actually never been as nuclear hot as it is right now. Because of the continued life of Fallout 76 and Prime Video’s global hit television adaptation, Fallout has found itself as one of Xbox’s most valuable worlds, and that could be good news for Fallout 5.
A new report suggests Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is planning to put more money behind Microsoft’s biggest first-party franchises, including Fallout, Halo, and The Elder Scrolls. The idea would be to give studios like Bethesda additional resources so they can hire more developers, speed up production, and shorten the long gaps between major releases. That’s probably the best news Fallout fans could hear right now outside of a Bethesda trailer with a dusty radio playing 1950s hits, a ruined highway and a skeleton lying in a funny pose.
The change in tact is necessary for the franchise too. With the success of the series, and the price Microsoft paid to acquire Bethesda, they need to strike while the iron is radiating, and letting all that momentum sit untouched for years would be a strange move indeed.
Who’s Involved with ‘Fallout’?
The Fallout franchise was created by Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, with Bethesda later taking over the mainline series through games including Fallout 3, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76. Prime Video’s adaptation stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets) as Lucy MacLean, Walton Goggins (Justified) as The Ghoul, Aaron Moten (Emancipation) as Maximus, Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) as Hank MacLean, and Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island) as Norm MacLean. The series has been renewed for a third season by Prime Video.
Fallout is streaming now on Prime Video.
- Release Date
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April 10, 2024
- Network
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Amazon Prime Video
- Showrunner
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Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan
