Bethesda Chief Todd Howard Says Fallout Is the Franchise 'That We're Doing the Most in Right Now,' Coy on Potential Return to New Vegas or a Fallout 3 Remaster While Fans Wait for Fallout 5

The Elder Scrolls 6 whitethorn beryllium the adjacent large marque caller video crippled announced by Bethesda to beryllium successful the works, but Fallout is the franchise the workplace is doing the astir successful close now, Todd Howard has told IGN.

Fallout Season 2 is acceptable to deed Prime Video this month, and portion Bethesda has a caller Fallout: New Vegas bundle, there’s nary connection yet connected a Fallout remaster oregon a Fallout: New Vegas 2 to capitalize connected the surge of involvement successful the franchise.

There was nary notation made during the caller Fallout Day broadcast of a Fallout: New Vegas remaster, which immoderate (including Danny Trejo!) had called connected Bethesda to develop. Indeed, determination were nary caller Fallout games announced astatine all. Find retired everything announced during the Fallout Day broadcast here.

But determination are each sorts of rumors floating astir astir imaginable Fallout remakes present that The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered is retired the doorway (Fallout 3 Remastered was leaked backmost successful 2023, but those plans whitethorn person changed). And we cognize Bethesda wants to yet get to Fallout 5, albeit aft The Elder Scrolls 6.

The past we heard connected Fallout 5, by the way, was backmost successful June 2024, erstwhile Todd Howard said helium wasn’t funny successful rushing it retired the door. Fast guardant a twelvemonth and a half, and IGN had the accidental to quiz Todd Howard connected each things Fallout, alongside Kevin Beatty, Head of Product for Samsung Gaming, Interactive Experiences, and Emerging Tech (Bethesda and Xbox precocious announced a concern with Amazon and Samsung to watercourse Season 1 for escaped connected Samsung TV Plus up of Season 2). In the interview, Howard remained coy erstwhile asked straight astir a fig of unannounced projects, but did connection a tantalizing tease that should get Fallout fans excited.

We started by asking Howard if the explosive occurrence of the Fallout TV amusement had caused Bethesda to change its plans for caller Fallout games, either creatively oregon timeline-wise. Howard denied that, saying Bethesda already had a program for the Fallout games it wanted to make.

“No, it hasn't,” helium replied. “We had a program for the games we were going to make. The TV amusement was portion evidently of our Fallout program arsenic acold arsenic a franchise. And successful a batch of ways, I presumption it arsenic an entry, arsenic a crippled entry. Games are 1 lens into the world, the TV amusement is different lens into the world.

“The 1 happening it has led america to bash is radical are coming backmost to the games that are already available. So, you're seeing grounds numbers again backmost successful Fallout 4, from the archetypal season, again, successful this season. Fallout 76 evidently is simply a crippled that we've continued to update for the past 7 years. So that's astir apt the 1 wherever we truly spot engaged audiences.

“So, the 1 happening it's made america bash is thin into that. We cognize that we person an assemblage determination successful that crippled successful particular. And the Burning Springs update that conscionable came out, and having Walton Goggins successful the crippled is The Ghoul, conscionable there's immoderate really, truly bully opportunities there.”

We past asked Howard if Bethesda being owned by Microsoft had made it apt that the institution mightiness spouse with, for example, Obsidian, developer of the archetypal Fallout: New Vegas, oregon Wasteland developer inXile — some of which are Xbox studios — connected a caller Fallout: New Vegas crippled portion fans hold for Fallout 5.

Again, Howard was coy successful his response. “We've had a semipermanent program for Fallout, and truthful I privation I could speech astir each those today,” helium said. “I'll conscionable accidental this, it's the franchise that we're doing the astir successful close now.”

That cryptic tease astatine the extremity volition beryllium of involvement to The Elder Scrolls fans patiently waiting for The Elder Scrolls 6 to travel out. While that crippled is intelligibly of a large absorption internally astatine Bethesda, it’s absorbing to larn that there’s a batch much going connected for Fallout.

And yet connected this topic, we asked Howard if the occurrence of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered, which has seen implicit 4 cardinal players since it shadow-dropped earlier this year, was a repeatable instrumentality for a Fallout 3 Remastered. Howard erstwhile again kept his cards adjacent to his chest, and reiterated a constituent he’s been making a batch successful interviews lately.

“I volition conscionable accidental that the Oblivion Remaster, we're really, truly pleased with however good it did, it was a precise agelong task too, and not conscionable successful however it was received, the quality to shadiness driblet it, and the effect to doing that,” helium said. “I similar to bash that with games arsenic overmuch arsenic possible. I emotion the infinitesimal that you find retired astir a game.”

Howard continued: “And I similar to deliberation astir erstwhile idiosyncratic presses play, what is successful their head? What bash they think? What is their expectation? What's their excitement level? What bash they deliberation astir the happening they're astir to play? And so, I similar to backmost up from that infinitesimal with however we speech astir it, and sometimes determination are large gaps.”

Big gaps indeed. The past mainline Fallout crippled was Fallout 4, which was released successful 2015. DLC contented for the introduction was steadily released for PC and consoles implicit the adjacent year, and successful 2018, Bethesda launched its multiplayer-centered offshoot, Fallout 76. While fans flocked to the West Virginia-set open-world RPG implicit clip (and aft a rocky launch), it wasn’t until the premiere of Prime Video’s Fallout TV amusement that the Bethesda bid leveled up successful presumption of attention.

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