Bethesda says Fallout 76 'wasn't doable' on Switch, but pledges more support for the system

Bethesda has been pretty good about bringing games to the Switch, but unfortunately, Fallout 76 is not one of those games. That's not to say the game wasn't considered for Switch, though. According to Bethesda marketing executive Pete Hines, the idea was toyed with, but making it happen just wasn't possible.

"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.

While that might be disappointing news, Mr. Hines made it clear that Bethesda definitely wants to bring more titles to the Switch.

But honestly, there is no game in development that we haven't had a conversation about [bringing it to Switch]. '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.

I enjoy us being seen as the third-party leader in terms of supporting Switch. People go, 'Hey, you've got a lot more stuff [on Switch] than this publisher or that publisher.' That's what I want Bethesda to be known as. We're guys who will take some risks.
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.'"