Fallout 5: Microsoft would like to release the new chapter sooner than expected, reveals leaker

Fallout is experiencing an impressive comeback with the success of the TV series that made the franchise reach spectacular popularity in the gaming industry, and the ideal would be to be able to count on a new game in the series to be released, according to the market’s standard rules: Fallout 5, however, is still a long way off, and the Microsoft would like to try to tighten the schedule and get it out sooner than expectedaccording to a well-known leaker/journalist.

The issue is not at all simple, obviously, but according to Jez Corden, a journalist at Windows Central who has always been very close to issues relating to the Xbox, Microsoft is “formulating plans to ensure that the next Fallout could arrive sooner than expected”as reported in the recent Xbox Two podcast episode.

The company “well understood” that the demand for a new Fallout was very high and intended to act accordingly. How this translates into practice is another story: Bethesda Softworks is still committed to supporting Starfieldwhile the majority of the workforce is now all concentrated in The Elder Scrolls 6which will take precedence over Fallout 5, which would be the next project to be completed.

Considering the studio’s standard timelines, this means the new Fallout is unlikely to hit the market before 2030, too long a time to take advantage of any temporary hype.

It is to be imagined that the possible 2nd Season of Fallout could repeat the success of the first, which would give more time to prepare the trail for a new chapter in the series, but development would have to be organized differently.

Here the craziest theories come into play, which obviously involve Obsidian: the team, also part of Xbox Game Studios, is the author of Fallout: New Vegas which in the long run proved to be one of the most popular chapters in the series, so the idea could be to entrust a new Fallout to the studio in question.

It could be a spin-off or something similar, considering that Bethesda seems to be quite jealous of its intellectual property, but the question is still very doubtful because Obsidian is also already very busy on several projects, between Avowed and The Outer Worlds 2, So at the moment the whole issue seems above all to be a great speculation, although it is true that the hype of the Fallout TV series represents a heritage that should not be wasted, also seeing how it dragged the old chapters of the series back into the sales charts.

Meanwhile, Fallout 4 has received its next-gen update and will likely, along with Fallout 76, be able to absorb the public’s desire for the series at least for a while.

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