This picture is of course not from Fallout 5, but from Fallout 76.
Skyrim will be ten years old in 2021, so Bethesda’s Todd Howard is a popular interview guest right now. in the Conversation with IGN he also told a few bars over Fallout 5. But don’t rejoice too early: The release is probably still very, very far away.
So far, Fallout 5 fits on a piece of paper
Up next big Bethesda game Starfield on the plan, followed by The Elder Scrolls 6 – which, by the way, is still in a very early development phase. When asked whether the next Fallout will appear after that or whether another studio will take over the development, Howard replied:
I don’t see … Fallout is part of our DNA. Of course we sometimes work with others, I can’t say what’s going to happen. So far, we’ve written what we want to do with Fallout 5 on a single page.
So it is clear that Fallout 5 is not even in the earliest development, but at the beginning of the concept phase. Most of the developers at Bethesda are likely to be at Starfield, Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls and will not be free for other projects until 2022 at the earliest. If you want to pass the time until Fallout 5, then take a look at this impressive mod that wants to make the construction mode really exciting:
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Howard himself regrets that things are not going any faster:
If I had a wand, if I could just wave my hand and bring it out … I’d love to find a way to speed up what we’re doing. But I can’t really say anything about that today, except that it’s Starfield and then Elder Scrolls.
In theory it would be one Development of Fallout 5 at Studio Obsidian not a thing of the impossibility, after all, the extremely successful and still popular Fallout: New Vegas came from their pen. And it’s just as much a part of Microsoft as Bethesda itself. But Howard doesn’t seem really enthusiastic about the idea.
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At the moment, one can only speculate about a release period. If editor Vali’s prediction for the release of Elder Scrolls 6 is correct and Bethesda actually develops one game after the other instead of several at the same time – then Fallout 5 would probably scratch the 2030s. Perhaps there is still a way to make it faster. We will keep you up to date!
