Will Fallout 5 be on PS5 or Xbox Exclusive?
Bethesda has now officially confirmed that the next game after Starfield and The Elder Scrolls 6 will be Fallout 5. One of the most popular post-apocalyptic franchises is set to return with its fifth mainline instalment. And though this is still far in the future, many fans already want to know if Fallout 5 will be an Xbox exclusive or if you will be able to play it on the PS5? Here’s what we know about it.
Will Fallout 5 be Xbox exclusive or will it release for PlayStation as well?
First thing first, let’s make one thing clear. Fallout 5 is not coming out any time soon. Todd Howard confirmed that the game will become a priority only after The Elder Scrolls 6 releases. Current projections are that TES 6 will probably come out around 2026 or maybe even 2027. That means that Fallout 5 will almost certainly not release in this decade. Our most optimistic estimation is that Fallout 5 is set to be released in 2030, not before. And more realistically, around 10 years from now.
Thus, there’s a long way ahead of us before we even start talking about Fallout 5 in any meaningful way. Why is this important? Because a lot can change by then, and we can not really know will Fallout be on the PS5 or not. In fact, by then we will already be in the middle of the next generation of consoles. Ten years from now even PlayStation 6 (and whatever the name of the next Xbox console will be) will be the current-gen consoles for years. And Sony and Microfost will already work hard on the next-next-gen.
Ten years ago no one could have guessed in their wildest dreams that Microsoft will own Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard, but now we are living in that reality. We are saying all this simply to stress how impossible is to predict if the Fallout 5 PS5 version will exist or not. But, the current Microsoft policy is that they will release most of their games only on PC and Xbox. Thus, if nothing changes in the next ten years, Fallout 5 will probably not be released for PlayStation consoles.
Fallout will be a dead and forgotten franchise (AGAIN) in a few years, let alone ten.
Microsoft blew billions to get Bethesda (and it’s titles whose popularity ebb and flow erratically) and now they’re just going to sit on them for years?
What a waste of money.
You realize that fallout 4 outsold skyrim and Microsoft also has obsidian which will probably make a new vegas 2 before fallout 5 is even in active development. Fallout 4 has sold over 30 million copies 5 years ago so it could be double that since the last time Bethesda gave current sales figures
Nobody cares which game had the most sales years ago. Not sure why you felt that is relevant. The point “Jrp” was making is that waiting too long to develop a game means you risk losing the already developed customer base. 10+ years from now I’ll probably be married with kids and have no interest in Fallout 5. It’ll also have a lot more competition than it did when they released Fallout 4 over a decade ago, so my kids won’t care either. It’s a bad strategy and shows that selling your brand to a major corporation that doesn’t know it’s consumer base is a terrible business decision. Also, going from PS to Xbox exclusively is another fail since a lot of people who grew up playing Fallout games on Playstation won’t buy an Xbox regardless of when it comes out. There is such a thing as console loyalty. But go ahead and ignore common sense while giving us sales figures from 2010. And did you forget to adjust for inflation? Cause that happens LOL