Yep, Fallout 5's world will be impacted by the happenings of the Fallout TV Show, sayeth Todd Howard

"We are taking that into account"

As the 2nd bid of Amazon's Fallout TV amusement emerges from a spread successful the crushed with a cog-shaped door, Todd Howard has uttered the connection Fallout and stuck a 5 aft it. He's fixed a verbal thumbs up - oregon a reminder depending connected however you look astatine it - to the thought of the events which play retired successful the TV amusement having an interaction connected the adjacent mainline introduction connected the series, astatine slightest successful presumption of being a information successful worldbuilding.

Asked by the Beeb's Newsbeat whether the amusement volition person an interaction connected Fallout 5, cleanliness is adjacent to Toddliness replied: "In short, yes." "Fallout 5 volition beryllium existing successful a satellite wherever the stories and events of the amusement happened oregon are happening," helium expanded. "We are taking that into account."

Based connected the phrasing, I'd presume each he's apt talking astir present is the request for the likes of terminal entries oregon different in-game lore whisperings which notation to places successful the post-apocalyptic US that the amusement has touched to reflector what the adaptation says took place. For example, everyone's brains getting precise foggy pursuing the 2nd conflict of Hoover Dam. Or, well, each that bollocks astir the NCR superior going boom, which I honestly conscionable thought was a alternatively unnecessary tin of worms for the amusement to person opened.

Is immoderate of that, oregon imaginable cheeky references to the likes of Lucy and The Ghoul, worldly I'm peculiarly bothered astir the adjacent single-player Fallout containing whenever it yet arrives? Not really, no. Then again, I've been wide successful my presumption that I reckon the show'd apt payment from its creators not having to dedicate truthful overmuch clip to debates involving the connection canon. Is it bully to person each your things' worlds nicely slot unneurotic successful a mode that tin service the wider communicative by layering unneurotic a shared past - and besides effect successful them being neatly corporately synergised? Yeah, it is, but astatine the aforesaid time, that wider lore gathering should ideally service the cardinal stories being told successful the present and present of a crippled oregon amusement archetypal and foremost, not the different mode around.

With some the showrunners and the Todd having already kicked disconnected chatter astir a 3rd bid anterior to the latest 1 adjacent going live, the Howard has besides revealed - this clip to Variety - that the 2 sides are already hard astatine enactment deciding however they tin bash Fallout crippled worldly to coincide with that adjacent series.

"For america connected the crippled and TV amusement side, we’re penning play 3 now," Fairly Todd Parents said. "We’re having those conversations present of, what are we doing successful play 3 for the TV amusement and what elements tin we bring into our games astatine that clip erstwhile it comes retired that don’t consciousness forced oregon fake." So, much crossover similar Fallout 76's Gogginsy Burning Springs update being lined up up of time, which to beryllium just is vastly superior to radical having to outcry en-masse 'Where beryllium the caller Fallouty bits present you've whetted my appetite?'

Fallout 5, arsenic of writing, is inactive without a merchandise date. One assumes that it'll driblet astir the twelvemonth 453689386890290906789, a small spot aft The Elder Scrolls 6 arrives successful 303689386890290906789.