Bethesda: Don’t Expect a Fallout 4 Announcement Soon

Pete Hines, the vice-president of Bethesda's parent company ZeniMax Media, has told Polygon that Fallout fans shouldn't expect to see an announcement concerning future entries in the series anytime soon.

Hines commented that Bethesda Game Studios would not give any hints concerning what they're working on and that "making assumptions" about the title being developed there would be a "bad idea".

"I mean [fans] have been clammering for a Fallout game for a long time now," Hines said. "What people need to understand – whether it is Bethesda Game Studios, Arkane or anybody – expecting information like that in any short period of time after they moved off one project to the other is really unrealistic."

Hines is presumably referring to the team's transition from Skyrim and its DLCs to what they're currently at work on. 

"We are not into annual franchises – just trying to spin out a version of our game year, after year, after year – like, we have never done that, I don't see that it is something that we are doing anything soon," he continued. "But that doesn't mean that we are going to take our time and wait six or seven years in between a game that a studio puts out. But these things take a long time and folks need to understand that we have a very certain way of doing things."

Bethesda is the publisher of Shinji Mikami's The Evil Within and announced at E3 that The Elder Scrolls Online will be coming to both Xbox One and PS4 as well as PC and Mac as had been previously announced. PS4 owners will get early access to the game's beta.

Speaking about the next-gen consoles Hines said "The thing that we are most excited about is that they are much more similar to each other than maybe they have been in previous generations. They aren't final yet, but hopefully when they are, we'll see that when we are developing for one, we'll see that they aren't very different from the other. And therefore more efficient to make a game for both and not have to worry so much about how is this going to work on this and how does this work [on] this."

Bethesda games were particularly impacted by bugs on current consoles, especially on PlayStation 3. With more similar PC-like architectures hopefully Bethesda's games, including Fallout 4, will run more smoothly on PS4 and Xbox One.