Bethesda: Why We Prefer 360, DLC, and Fallout 4

by Sal on Aug 1, 2008 at 10:49 am
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Bethesda Softworks’ head Pete Hines has explained why his company picks the Xbox 360 as their main development platform rather than the PLAYSTATION 3 or PC.

“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,” explained Hines.

“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.”

Peter Hines started talking about the exclusive content for the Xbox 360 and PC versions of the game.

“When I say exclusive I mean it is exclusive to just the Xbox 360.

“If you want to play the Fallout 3 downloadable content you will need to have an Xbox 360 or a PC.”

Will there be any future Fallouts after this one?

“We didn’t buy the Fallout franchise to just do Fallout 3 and then stop,” he said.

“But let’s get this one out of the door before we worry about the next one.”

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4 Responses to “Bethesda: Why We Prefer 360, DLC, and Fallout 4”

  1. madpuppy
    08.1.08 (
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    3:08 pm      | 

    This is about as dumb as those Gabe Newall comments about the PS3. if you cannot “learn” how to develop for the PS3 then say that your company is limited in it’s abilities and be done with it…..

  2. Vector
    08.1.08 (
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    2:52 pm      | 

    So… what is so hard about taking out the PS3 hard drive (which is a standard HDD, just like the PC) and putting it into another PS3?

    From a business perspective i understand why they do DLC and exclusive things for the top buyer but things like this always make me nervous as to the motive behind a game. Do they want the game to just make money or do they want the game to be one that people love right out of the box?

  3. incredibilistic
    08.1.08 (
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    1:30 pm      | 

    “We’re really lazy and, like, the 360 is like, you know, like so easy and stuff so yeah… yeah so it’s just way easier on the 360 ’cause we’re not into hard stuff, you know.”

    “Oh, and when I say exclusive to 360, like, you know, it’s really important if you like have a 360 that way you can get the 360 stuff ’cause it’s like actually on the 360, right.”

    Let me guess, the interview was conducted in a “hot box”. I’ll still probably end up at least playing the game (I’m not totally sold on actually buying it) but the developer sounds like a complete moron (as opposed to an incomplete moron).

    What he forgot to mention was that MS was paying them to get special DLC. No one seems to mind that most every developer in the industry is a ho (a well paid ho but a ho none the least) and would probably shine Bill Gates’ knob if he paid them enough.

    And like any good whore they make sure that “daddy” feels like he’s the only one… and the biggest.

  4. Skittles
    08.1.08 (
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    10:50 am      | 

    sellouts.

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