E3 2018: 10 Things That Must Happen At Bethesda's Conference

Can Bethesda repeat the greatness of 2016?

Fallout 76
Bethesda

E3 is almost upon us, and one of the most unpredictable conferences out of all of them is Bethesda's.

Over the past few years, Bethesda has given us several different levels of quality at their conferences, ranging from easily being the best of the show, to basically being a slow grind that showed that they didn't have much exciting to give us that year.

This brings a certain level of fear when it comes to predicting what Bethesda might show off at their E3 conference. Will they give us a show that's on par with when they revealed Fallout 4 in 2015? Or will they repeat the last two years and mostly meander about?

If early indications are anything to go by, this could very well be the first option, as they've definitely got a more exciting lineup to come over the next year. Titles like Rage 2 and Fallout: 76 are already pretty exciting, and that's just the stuff that we already know about.

E3 is built on the surprises after all, so if Bethesda really wants to make this E3 one to remember, this is the stuff that they need to bring.

10. More Switch Support

Fallout 76
Nintendo

Bethesda have certainly been the best third party supporter for the Switch since it's release, and it's extremely likely that they'll want to highlight this in their conference.

One of the biggest problems that Nintendo had with the Wii U was a significant lack of third party support, something that has been alleviated a lot with the Switch. Developers are lining up all over to bring their games to the Switch, and the first in line always seems to be Bethesda.

In just the first year of the Switch's life, Bethesda ported both Skyrim and DOOM to it, both of which are massively loved games. These ports are undoubtedly going to continue, especially when there are games like Fallout and Prey that haven't been seen on the system yet.

Considering how successful these ventures have been, it wouldn't be surprising if Bethesda were actually working on exclusive titles for the Switch themselves rather than straight up ports.

Bethesda now know that doing so isn't too risky, so it wouldn't be too far-fetched to imagine a smaller scale Fallout exclusively available on the Nintendo Switch.

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