According to a post from gaming journalist Imran Khan, Bethesda at one point considered porting Fallout 4 for the Nintendo Switch. Specifically, he states that the game was “was explored for Switch some years ago. To the point where Hines told my boss at the time to expect it, who then had me prep a story. Never came to fruition, though.”
While Bethesda has not yet confirmed the validity of these statements, it wouldn’t be surprising to learn that the company considered putting one of their most successful games on the Nintendo Switch. In the past, they’ve released both Skyrim and Fallout Shelter for the system. Only time will tell if Bethesda will ever bring Fallout 4 or its predecessors to the Nintendo Switch in the future.
Fallout is one of Bethesda’s most prolific franchises. The most recent game in the series was Fallout 76, a controversial MMO-styled first-person shooter. Recently, Bethesda released the Fallout TV series on Amazon Prime. The series’ success affected the franchise drastically, jumping up the player rate for most of the games in the series, including Fallout 4, whose sales increased by 7,500%. Recently, Bethesda released the next-gen update for Fallout 4.
Earlier this year, Variety published an interview with one of Bethesda’s biggest (and most infamous) directors, Todd Howard. In the interview, Howard revealed that Fallout 76‘s player base has reached 20 million players as a result of the success of the Fallout TV series. According to Howard, because of the series, “Depending on the Fallout game, you’re looking at a 4-6x increase in daily players, which is beyond anything I’ve ever seen in my 30 years of doing this.”
