It’ll be a while before the next mainline Fallout game, but the Prime Video show’s making the most of the situation.
Prime Video’s Fallout show was pretty surprising when it came out, both because it ended up being really good, and because Bethesda didn’t trot out a game around its release. No remaster, no new title, not even so much as a tease for Fallout 5—but in the eyes of Xbox head Phil Spencer, that ended up working out for everyone involved.
During the recent Paley International Council Summit, Spencer admitted what we’ve known for a while: neither Xbox and Bethesda “[had] a new Fallout game lined up for the show’s launch.” That lack of preparedness, he continued, gave the show freedom that wouldn’t have been afforded “if we tried to coordinate production of two very different creative processes to land at the same time.
