Peter Hines: We didn’t buy the Fallout franchise to just do Fallout 3 and then stop

tidus04 | August 03, 2008 | News | PC Playstation 3

Whilst in London to promote Fallout 3, Bethesda Softworks project manager Peter Hines stated whilst talking to TechRadar, "We didn’t buy the Fallout franchise to just do Fallout 3 and then stop. But let’s get this one out of the door before we worry about the next one."

In addition to this he went on to state that the Xbox360 is the main console that Bethesda will be working on with Fallout 3 for the launch as they claim it is the system that they are more familiar with.

roject lead Peter Hines was in town to promote the new action-RPG, and told TechRadar: "We didn’t buy the Fallout franchise to just do Fallout 3 and then stop. But let’s get this one out of the door before we worry about the next one."

Hines also let slip that the Xbox 360 is the main platform Bethesda will be spearheading the launch of Fallout 3 via.

"If you have the PC as your lead machine you have the problem of not knowing what configurations people have, how many gigs of RAM or what graphics card they have," he explained.

"Obviously we are more familiar with the Xbox because we are familiar and the other thing is that the Xbox is much easier to take to tech shows. We can just pop the hard-drive off the Xbox and put it on any machine which is an advantage. Taking the PC or PS3 to these things just isn’t convenient."

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Red 9 | August 04, 2008

The last paragraph makes no sense. The PS3 HDD can pop out probably the easiest of the 3.

You can tell M$ has been meddling here.

PS You know how they mentioned exclusive DLC for PC and 360? Turns out M$ paid them to actually restrict ANY form of DLC from reaching PS3.
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Lost_Cause | August 04, 2008

The thought of a developer preferring the 360 is so foreign and incomprehensible that the only way it could be true is if 'M$' kidnapped their children, beat the shit out of them, and bribed them, huh.

Jesus Christ. It's so good to know there's such a paragon out there like Sony. If only more companies worked like them. Not the eeeevil Microsoft.

Relax.
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  Red 9 | August 04, 2008
  
  I'm just saying that their mentioning the PS3 as inconvenient is...weird.
  
  What's also weird is that there was no response to the DLC situation.
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Deathsythe | August 04, 2008

Potential dupe: new news.