Todd Howard: Fallout 5 Will Share a World With the TV Series
Bethesda's Todd Howard said in a BBC interview that Fallout 5 takes the TV series into account and is set where its events happened or are happening.
Todd Howard, the Bethesda developer behind Fallout, said in an interview with the BBC that Fallout 5 will take place in a world where the events of the Fallout TV series happened or are happening, according to Screen Rant. No release date has been set or indicated for the game.
Howard said the developers are taking the TV series into account for Fallout 5, tying the next main entry to the show's continuity rather than treating the two as separate stories.
The Fallout series has run across games and, more recently, television, with the show's events now described by Howard as part of the same world the next game will inhabit. He did not give further detail on how closely the two will connect.
Long gaps between entries
Fallout 4 was released in 2015, 11 years before this article, and the original Fallout arrived on PC in 1997. Bethesda's Starfield was released in 2023 after eight years of development.
Quick answers
When is Fallout 5 coming out?
No release date has been set or indicated for Fallout 5.
Will Fallout 5 connect to the Fallout TV series?
Todd Howard said Fallout 5 will take place in a world where the events of the Fallout TV series happened or are happening, and that the developers are taking the series into account.