Nintendo has given the strongest indication yet that its next-generation console won’t stray too far from the existing Switch hardware.
25.04.2024 - 18:05 / videogameschronicle.com / Bethesda Softworks / Tom Ivan
Bethesda has released Fallout 4’s long-awaited next-gen update.
Originally scheduled to arrive last year, the free update includes native applications for Xbox Series X/S and PS5, Performance mode and Quality mode settings, plus stability improvements and fixes.
Players will be able to “experience up to 60 FPS and increased resolutions,” Bethesda said earlier this month.
“To download the update on a next-generation console, you must own Fallout 4 for that device.”
Updates for the PC, Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game are also available.
The PC version has received widescreen and ultra-widescreen support, Creation Kit fixes and “a variety of quest updates”.
Fallout 4 is now also Steam Deck verified, and is available to purchase on the Epic Games Store for the first time.
Patches for the last-gen consoles versions include stability improvements, login and quest fixes.
Fallout games have seen their player counts increase dramatically following the release of Amazon’s Fallout TV show earlier this month.
Fallout 76 attracted over one million players in a single day, while the whole franchise was played by almost five million people in a day, Bethesda said this week.
Amazon recently confirmed that the Fallout show will return for a second season.
Nintendo has given the strongest indication yet that its next-generation console won’t stray too far from the existing Switch hardware.
Bethesda has said that issues preventing some PlayStation Plus subscribers from accessing Fallout 4’s next-gen update have now been resolved.
The newly released Xbox Series X/S upgrade for Fallout 4 currently has a bug that prevents players from activating Quality mode.
Bethesda announced ’s next-gen update in 2022, and it’s finally here after a long delay. However, PC players might have been better off without it. The massive update adds very little to the PC version and causes more problems than it solves.
Players who previously redeemed the PlayStation 4 version of Fallout 4 will have to wait a little longer for its free next-gen upgrade, Bethesda says.
The Fallout TV show effect continues. This time, it’s popular mod site Nexus Mods on the receiving end of the double-edged Shishkebab, as its servers struggle under the weight of people rushing to play through the series again - and mod its latter entries into games worth playing, presumably.
Amazon Prime's Fallout TV show has been renewed for a second season.
In a surprise to no one, Amazon's Fallout TV series has been officially renewed for a second season.
Bethesda really must be feeling very happy right now. Fallout 4 has pip (boyed) its way to the top to became Europe's best-selling game, per sales data from chart numbers company GSD.
There is this little TV show currently making headlines. You may have heard of it. It's called Fallout and it has been met with scores of praise across the board (we awarded it four stars).
Sales of Fallout games have shot up across Europe, with Fallout 4 reclaiming the No.1 spot.
Todd Howard has assured Fallout fans that the franchise's recently-released TV show does not contradict the games' pre-established lore.