Fallout 5 confirmed, just don't expect it anytime soon

(Pocket-lint) - Bethesda brag Todd Howard has confirmed that Fallout 5 is successful the crippled maker's plans.

However, he's besides said that it's successful a queue down Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6, truthful it could inactive beryllium years earlier we spot thing tangible from the Xbox-owned studio.

Indeed, Fallout 5 is conscionable a single-sheet conception close now: "We person a one-pager connected Fallout 5, what we privation to do," said Howard connected IGN's latest podcast.

The Bethesda manager besides ruled retired fixed it to an outer developer to velocity up production: "I don’t see… Look, Fallout’s truly portion of our DNA here," helium said.

"I’d similar to find a mode to accelerate what we do, but I can’t truly accidental today, oregon perpetrate to anything, what’s going to hap when, different to accidental that our cadence is Starfield and past Elder Scrolls 6."

Starfield is presently scheduled for merchandise successful November 2022, portion Elder Scrolls 6 is seen arsenic a agelong mode disconnected yet. Both games volition beryllium Xbox exclusives (with a merchandise connected Windows PC too), truthful it's much than apt that Fallout 5 volition beryllium too.

That being said, by the clip it is anyplace adjacent being released, who knows if the Xbox Series X/S and PS5 volition inactive beryllium the current-gen consoles oregon if different platforms person emerged by then. Maybe Xbox's Cloud Gaming service is truthful wide that it's casual capable to entree the crippled anyway.

Writing by Rik Henderson. Originally published connected 10 November 2021.