Fallout 76 Straps On Its Pip-Boy With A Mysterious Teaser Trailer

Pls be like New Vegas :c

"Will this be on Switch?"

Nooope. Rage 2 aint either. I maintain this E3 will be remarkably light on third party announcements, dont even expect FIFA kids.

It would be super cool to have on Switch, but I would be surprised if it made it.

Lots of people not talking about the fact the pipboy's date set this 170 years before Fallout 3, about 20 after the bombs fell.... smells like an online game to me.

Yeah not a chance it comes to switch, Dont get your hopes up at all people.

No minds have been blown with Pokemon...

Not particularly a Fallout fan and I believe in a port when I see it.

This may eventually come to Switch but I think that first they’d want to port the 4th game.
But... for some reason I’m not really excited. I loved the first three games, but the fourth one left me with a bittersweet feeling.

The question is: How well have Skyrim and Doom sold on Switch? I never really saw them on any 'top sales' charts for maybe more than a week (my memory fails me; correct me if im wrong).

If these guys aren't happy with those games' performance, don't expect Fallout to make the cut.

Well there was those comments from Bethesda 2 or 3 moths saying they hope to bring their future games to the console and can't see any reason why they shouldn't (or something along those lines).

Nintendo save their big announcement for Directs/ E3 so a Switch version of Rage not being announced when they revealed it a few weeks ago was no surprise. If it's coming Nintendo will reveal it themselves,it's how they do stuff.

Just to be clear ,I'm not saying I definitely think Rage and Fallout 76 are coming,just that if they are then their announcements will come separately.

I've played only the F3 and unfortunately I don't understand the story. Does anyone know a good website that I can find info about the story of both games?
Also it would be great to have it on the go but I think that the production of this game has started a long time ago, therefore, will not be available on the Switch, however, I would not mind to have the other games available while they port this one to the console!

@diablo2 To be fair ,some of their games don't perform too well on the other platforms either. Doom and Wolfenstein 2 notably. Skyrim seemed to have a good run on the Eshop and was in the top 5 for a good while.

Gonna assume this won’t be on switch and be shocked and happy if it does. Think we are more likely to get a version of fallout 3 or 4 than any new one

@YummyHappyPills Wanna place a bet on FIFA?

@gortsi Im not a gambler, sorry. Nor do I have the funds, but I strongly suspect if we take EA at their word, that there has been only 2 months at this point since they even began greenlighting switch games.

@Zuljaras Unfortunately, we have to accept that Nintendo consoles will always have to be accompanied by another system (PC/Xbox/PS4) in order to play the more hardcore titles.

I couldn't help but feel sad by the lack of Black Ops. I never cared for those games, but you get my point. Nintendo consoles are just known for being overlooked when it comes to many games (mostly due to the consoles being difficult / underpowered / unconventional), and thats a sad reality.

I love my Nintendo consoles, but they will always suffer this fate.

@gortsi I also think that FIFA 19 is a near certainty. FIFA 18 has sold well. Probably their best selling FIFA on a Nintendo console

@YummyHappyPills The Vita got 4 FIFA's in a row. I'm sure the Switch will get more than 1, especially since it sold more than the Vita during its first three months (jk, but not really).

@OorWullie Ah, thats good to know. Also if im not mistaken, many of these sales charts only take one medium into consideration (either physical sales or digital sales, but usually not both). So let's hope all third-parties have done well. Even FIFA.

@Mr_Pepperami the biggest indication that this is going to happen is the World Cup update. None of the last-gen versions got it and I think FIFA 18 will be the last one to be cross-gen

@tourjeff Well, basically, the story is pretty obvious: a nuclear war happened, and people in America were hiding away in underground vaults. They come out after the Fallout has sufficiently subsided, and they find that the world has turned into a kind of a Mad Max world, which is occupied by weird robots and mutated people and animals.

But a good place to start for you to get the entire back story of the series, is here: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout_Wiki

All of the games, including the old isometric games on PC from many, many years ago are included, so you'll be able to read up on the entire history there.

@gortsi Even though the Switch by the time FIFA launched had pretty much caught up to half of where the Vita is now, they still said "Wait until March before greenlighting" which was a change from "FIFA needs to sell well" not long before.

At this point, I am 95% sure FIFA isn't coming, just because EA wont have had the time. Then again they'd also end up making what is effectively a Legacy version for a new system, so whether they'd bother is up for debate.

From where I am sitting, it looks like EA isn't doing it. That could be wrong, they could have privately changed their minds, but at least publicly there is no reason to say its coming.

@gortsi yeah I agree. It makes sense for them as well. They have the engine in place now for the switch one, all they need to do now is tweet it a bit. It’s not that costly for them. Think we will get FIFA and maybe one other from them at E3. Maybe a Madden

@diablo2 It's a shame really, because I think games like COD could use some innovation the Switch provides. Obviously not in the graphic department, but the control schemes afforded by the Switch are leaps above the standard analog setup. AAA companies are completely content with churning out the same thing with a shinier lick of paint though, which is truly sad for the industry. At least indies (and Bethesda to an extent) take risks.

This doesn't seem like Switch news. Not at all. I do hope the Fallout 3 rumour is legit tho.

@YummyHappyPills EA had a whole studio dedicated to the game and they churned it out in 6 months. I'm sure they can do more in 12.

This won't come to Switch, but I guess we'll see some sort of Fallout 3: 10th Anniversary Edition.

I have a thought on this based on the trailer, my thinking is that what if this were more of game in the tone of Bioshock instead of an open world game like other fallouts. The entire thing takes place in a claustrophobic vault settings. Could be interesting, but hard to say for sure when it comes to fallout games.

@Mr_Pepperami they already announced Madden 19 (out August 10) and there's no reason they wouldn't announce a Switch version so I'm guessing it might be something like the Sims 4

Won't come to switch

Well given that it (supposedly) isn't a single player RPG, Switch might actually have a chance at getting it, unlike Fallout 4. Dom seems to have no idea how game engines work if his logic is "a company brings certain games to the platform, so why not all games".

It's supposedly a very different game, management style almost with online multiplayer elements. So you might have a chance, unlike Fallout 4.

@gortsi yeah the sims has traditionally come and done well on Nintendo consoles in the past so you may be right. I’m really surprised they didn’t throw Burnout paradise on the switch as I think the platform is light on racers and could have done very well

@gortsi At the earliest this would have been greenlit at the end of March then. Given FIFA is a mid-September release every year, thats what, 5 months at most before needing to be printed?

@ThanosReXXX Hey, thanks for the link I will have a look at it as there is a lot of info.
The basic story I kind of understood but the time lines now are confusion and which vault opened first or were not supposed to open is where the confusion starts.

I don't see why this is considered Nintendo news. Like Rage 2, this game is not coming to the Switch. But i would love to be proven wrong.

well, I guess that is an interesting way for NL to cling to an announcement that has nothing to do with the Switch.

I mean it beats "3rd party skips Switch again, just go multi-platform and be done with it" 😉

Time to temper E3 expectations.

@dougphisig I wouldn't buy that for more than $15. After going through all the vaults in 3, NV, & 4, it's apparent they aren't large enough for that kind of thing. Closer to the size of Layers of Fear, really.

Plus, I don't need any more Gary to haunt my dreams.

@tourjeff You might get sucked in. It's a whole divergent timeline around the "World of Tomorrow" and Atomic Age times of the USA. Atomic energy harnessed drastically, but the microchip didn't take off. (Opposite of reality) The lore gets pretty deep, and Vault-Tec is shown to be horribly sadistic.

Gary!

Don't have high hopes...probably a Match 3 puzzle games or sth..

It is a Battle Royale game

@Agramonte Those articles are infuriating!

I'll be shocked if it's coming to Switch.

Need me some Fallout on the Switch. Would be happy to see this on Switch announced alongside all other major consoles, but I'd love a Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas port too.

I don't expect it to be on Switch. Bethesda has completely phoned in their Switch support, they didn't even publish Skyrim or Doom.

@thiz lmaoooo FACTS!

It's a vault Sim again isnt it?

@thiz Let's be real though, games like Pokemon are going to sell anyways, especially in Japan. Just because it is catered to a more casual audience isn't going to change that.

Guys, it's not happening.

@tourjeff You're welcome.

Bethesda not too long ago talked about releasing games on the Switch the same time as other platforms. Hopefully they follow through this E3.

Rage 2 was announced with no mention of the Switch hopefully this one doesn't too.

@OorWullie
Beat it me too. Hopefully they deliver. My PS4 was mostly for Bethesda and resident evil games so once a few came out on the Switch, I sold my PS4.

Yes please!

I would be beaming if all they did was give us Fallout 4 on the switch.

@YummyHappyPills yeah I don't think we can possibly know when it was approved. I'm just gonna wait one more week and find out, but I'd bet serious money that it's coming. If the Vita got 4 FIFA games I'm sure the Switch will get more than the one, especially now that Nintendo lets EA play ball with FUT

If it's for the switch I'm gonna fall out of my seat... I'll let myself out

I really don't see the point in announcing this on Nintendo Life; if it is a game that is built, from the ground up, chances are it's going to be a game that is every bit as large as Fallout 4, a game that is most likely far too demanding for Switch. If it was an announcement for Fallout 3 Remastered, then it would make sense. Sadly, we're probably not going to get a ton of "holy crap" third party announcements.

This game isn't coming to Switch.

It also isn't a traditional Fallout game aka it isn't an open-world single-player RPG.

Bethesda games i want on Switch. Prey, Fallout 4 and Rage 2

@tourjeff With Fallout it pays to remember that Fallout 1 & 2 are almost entirely unlike 3 & 4. 1 & 2 were top down isometric RPGs made by Black Isle/Interplay and the legendary Chris Taylor. Most of these guys now work at Obsidian after Interplay went bankrupt. FO 1 & 2 had a very different mood. The core premise is the same: in an alternate 1950's the USSR and US acted upon their "mutual destruction" threats....one launched their nukes, the other reciprocated, both got nuked into oblivion resulting in endless nuclear wastelands. However FO 1 & 2 were not "dead serious games of apocalyptic survival." They were tongue in cheek pastiches, masquerading as a serious game. The US sent people to live in The Vaults, which were sold as fallout shelters by a joint venture of big defense and government. In reality they were mostly experiments designed to fail to test the responses of the inhabitants. But the game focused on the world rebuilding, not the nuclear wasteland....and the weird ways the world rebuilt, the return of politics as it has always been even when bottle caps are the only currency, human behavior, and, of course, deep state government conspiracies (that were all true!!)

Bethesda on the other hand turned fallout 3 and 4 into a mostly serious survival apocalypse game devoid of 80% of the humor and sarcasm implied in the first two. Some of it is still there, but it's more subdued. It takes itself too seriously for fans of 1 & 2, IMO.

The exception is New Vegas, the FO 3 expansion. That was actually made by Obsidian.....which consists of a lot of the Black Isle devs from the original two games....so the crazy humor made its way back in.

@diablo2 Bethesda's already sayd they've been pleased with Switch sales. Their engines are idTech based now and very scalable. It's a lot easier for them to bring their games to Switch than some other companies, and since their games tend to have odd niche audiences, they benefit from spreading out their games to as many platforms as they can.

Still, I wonder if 76 is an RPG, or if it's an MMO like ESO?

@BanjoPickles "very bit as large as Fallout 4, a game that is most likely far too demanding for Switch."

Fallout 4 runs on an OLDER version of the Skyrim SE engine....which is on Switch.... Fallout 4 could certainly run on Switch if it makes the jump to the newer engine version at some point. Ironically it isn't on Switch not because it's too new and demanding but because it's too old and not sufficiently optimized like the newer Skyrim update.

I'd be happy with a Fallout 3 remaster

@Zuljaras It's definitely believable. It depends probably on what they're doing patch wise for other systems. They already have the X1X enhanced version (I bought it for $10...haven't started it yet... I haven't even started Skyrim for Switch yet!) But it's still on the old engine, so I'm not sure when (or if) they plan to update it. Arguably it could be late in the Switch's lifespan when they inevitably retool Fallout 4 to run on PS5 in an "enhanced" bundle (which would make it Switch-ready.)

Any Fallout for Switch please.

I'd like if it came to the Switch but somehow I just don't think it will. One can dream though.

this ain't gonna happen.

we have to do with kiddy games, and b-class indiegames.
nintendo can do all they can, but again they failed to design a proper console.

and all those nintendo idiots begging "please nintendo, stay yourself"
pah!!

I really think Bethesda is going to try to change the game on this release. I'm thinking a "H1Z1/Fortnite" Fallout Online. I'm sure they would add an option to be played offline as well. Or it could be a remake of the first?!

@NEStalgia

how can you shrink a 60gb+ game on a 32gb gamecard?
its realy a big game.

nintendo should first at least release the 64gb gamecard, before developers even think about big titles to the switch.
if they even want to spend some money to make it suiyable for the switch.
its not like you can port games just like that.

Not a huge fan of the online survival rpg idea, but I hope the game is good! Love me some Fallout.

country roadddddd,
TAKE ME HOOOOOOOOOOOOOMEEE

@boop22 That song made me feel like those mutated hillbillies from Point Lookout were going to pop in.

@PALversusNTSC The file size of FO4 on the Xbox marketplace is 28.12g. PS4 is 32.11g. PC is roughly 30g-31g. It's a matter of compression.

If it isn't a proper full port to the Switch, I will probably pass. I do really like the Fallout series, but don't see myself playing through a long RPG like this on PS4 anymore. Not unless the game is a lot more impressive.

Even if it comes to the Switch, if some of the rumors are to be believed and this is mostly an online game I will just ignore this game.
I'm hating this trend to make games online focused instead of single-player/story focused with the multiplayer as a nice add on like it used to be before.

They had me at "Country Roads"...

@YummyHappyPills fifa 19 for switch is 99% comfirmed

There is no way I am buying a "cloud game." That is honestly the worst concept I have ever heard of when it comes to gaming, and the day that becomes the standard for gaming is the day I stop buying video games.

Definitely agree. But you know what i mean (that this applies especially to Nintendo much more so than others).

@PALversusNTSC As others said it's not that big on other platforms, but even if it were, there's Nintendo's seemingly magic compression (they have a proprietary compression algorithm that seems to work miracles. I'm assuming it's related to Iwata's compression he wrote for the Pokemon GBA carts. We tend to forget he was one heck of a coder once upon a time!)

But beyond that, the data for those other platforms contains multichannel audio data, 24/92 audio data in some cases, and possibly much higher resolution textures than would be meaningful with Switch's memory, meaning all that can easily be eliminated on a Switch cart (PC versions either have scalable textures so they could just be pre-scaled in the data archive, or contain multiple textures packs, of which the high res ones could be removed.)

So package size for other platforms doesn't always mean that's all data that would be used on Switch anyway. Similarly Shadow of War is over 100GB on XBox 1 X with the 4k texture packs and such, only 60-somethingGB for XBox 1 S however that can't use those.

Hopefully it's either nothing like Fallout 4 or goes all the way with being a non-traditional Fallout game, signified by the lack of a number in the title (76 doesn't follow after 4 at any rate).
I know a lot of people didn't like Fallout Tactics for not being an RPG but IMO spin-offs are fine as long as they're spin-offs. Since Vault 76 was supposedly one of the "normal" ones it could mean anything, even a post-apo city builder. Which has been done by Frostpunk already, though in a different type of post-apo.

@NightBeast That's a good reason to be excited for Fallout 76: Fallout 4 was probably just bethesda getting used to a new engine, and now this could be the "New Vegas" of this generation. Or... it could be a multiplayer spinoff.

@Totaldude911 Yeah, I'm one of those who liked Fallout 3 more than New Vegas))

@NightBeast I'll keep that in mind. Haven't played either yet

Can be make Pip-Boy Labo on Nintendo Switch from Fallout 76. Something like Switch Pip-Boy Straps Wrist Wear.