Microsoft and Bethesda now find themselves in a curious situation, and it’s a particularly odd turn given all of Xbox’s business troubles of late. A couple of weeks ago, they launched the Fallout TV show on Amazon Prime to tremendous acclaim and viewership numbers — and suddenly the Fallout franchise is relevant in the mainstream in a way it hasn’t been in years.
This had a knock-on effect of sending millions of people dashing over to try a Fallout game. There’s just one big problem: there hasn’t been a new Fallout game in six years. On current PCs and consoles you can fairly easily get Fallout 76 or Fallout 4, but you’ll be stuck looking at graphics that weren’t made for the current generation of hardware, and in the case of 76, you’ll be playing an unwieldy game burdened with years of content updates to serve a dedicated fan base.
Going back further to Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 3 requires a little more finesse, especially if you don’t have old hardware just lying around. You could play the Xbox versions through the backwards compatibility program, or you could jump through the technical hoops to make their busted PC versions play more smoothly. I’m guessing this is more work than many who came into the fandom through the TV show will be willing to do — and that’s a shame, as…
