Bethesda Considered Fallout 76 On The Nintendo Switch But "Wasn't Doable"

After the release of The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim and Doom on Nintendo Switch many wondered if Bethesda would be bringing Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 to the hybrid console. Unfortunately, Bethesda tried to bring Fallout 76 to the Nintendo Switch but couldn't make it happen.

Recently, at PAX Aus, Bethesda Marketing Executive Pete Hines stated:

“The Switch is something I can say with certainty that it’s a part of every conversation with every dev we have now about what we’re doing going forward because we consider it to be a viable platform. If the game will work on it, we want it to be on every platform possible. Fallout 76 is not because it just wasn’t doable. But honestly, there is no game in development that we haven’t had a conversation about. ‘Does this work on the Switch, do you have a plan for the Switch?’ It’s not a mandate. Everything we do has to be developer-led, but it’s something we want to make sure is on folks’ radar.”

Hines explained that Bethesda does consider the Switch a system worth investing. He stated:

“You go where the money is because that’s how you stay in business. What we have seen compels us to say, ‘[Switch] is a viable platform for the kind of things we do going forward.”

Fallout 76 currently has a beta going on all platforms with the next testing period occurring on October 30th.

Fallout 76  releases on November 14th for Xbox One, PS4, and PC. Check out our beta impressions here.

Adam Siddiqui, NoobFeed
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