YEAR OF PS3 COMES TO A HALT - FALLOUT 3 EXCLUSIVE CONTENT ON 360 + PC

[mojovonio]

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."

...

"When I say exclusive I mean it is exclusive to just the Xbox 360 and PC.

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

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/bethesda-why-we-prefer-the-xbox-439961

Glad I chose the best console ever made.

Damn, Sony. Just DAMN.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Strange things have gone from exclusively being with Sony, to multiplatform, to exclusively NOT being with Sony.

[duckman2000]

Are you trying to become the Xbot iteration of JustinP? And this isn't news either. Massive failure.

[BlueTsunami]

Bethesda: "How does I work memstick?"

Though, in their defense, Sony probebly jipped them and gave them the devkits and PS3s that aren't equipped with pro duo slots.

[MCD]

do you love me mojo?

[duckman2000]

I'm trying to understand how anyone can consider it a good thing that a company is already touting DLC, which will undoubtedly cost money, for an unreleased game as a good thing. Exclusive or not, it's not a good trend. Extra content on disc at regular retail price, sure. This, however, is pretty crap.

[BlueTsunami]

Horse Armor

Bethesda are pioneering the "Nickel and Dimeing" on the software end. It is hilarious to see a bunch of people applaud getting DLC. DLC should be contained to something like Shivering Isle, not fucking skin changes for your horse.

[cool breeze]

The fact that Bethesda is all about the 360 makes my excitement level for Fallout 3 go way down.  I'm sure they enjoy dumbing down games so that console kiddies can play it without any problems.  I'm probably going to have to wait a week or a month until mods fix that tarded down game.

[TVC15]

I'm trying to understand how anyone can consider it a good thing that a company is already touting DLC, which will undoubtedly cost money, for an unreleased game as a good thing. Exclusive or not, it's not a good trend. Extra content on disc at regular retail price, sure. This, however, is pretty crap.

I think lots of PC games have already started planning their expansion packs before their original product ships.  I'd like to think that Bethesda learned their lesson with the horse armor shit.

[cool breeze]

Get used to it. Consoles are where the money are, so don't expect companies to spend the extra resources to make the PC version shine.

I agree with Duck though, announcing DLC before knowing if the consumer will even want it is distinguished mentally-challenged.

I doubt most people will get the GTA4 DLC.

American companies.  Europe has proven that they want to make GOOD games and not just profitable games.

  STALKER

[bud]

am i on oa

[BlueTsunami]

am i on oa

We're going down that path ;_;

Atleast "General Talk" is more sensible than OA

[AdmiralViscen]

No moorreee

[APF]

Why not just not buy the horse armor?

[Brehvolution]

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."

...

"When I say exclusive I mean it is exclusive to just the Xbox 360 and PC.

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

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/bethesda-why-we-prefer-the-xbox-439961

Sounds like they are familiar.... Sentence full of lulz

[Tabasco]

Honest question:  By having consoles versions, isn't the PC version improved?  Since there's more copies sold, there's more money for artists, audio, engineers, designers, etc, whose work is spread across all platforms?  I understand that the interface may be flawed, but otherwise, isn't presentation improved b/c of the addition resources?

People bitch about Invisible War.  Would a sequel have even been possible w/o the XBOX version?  These aren't rhetorical questions.  I'm genuinely curious.

[Eel O'Brian]

shivering isles was awesome and worth the $

just the right length, i liked it better than the main quest for oblivion

never bought horse armor, and never cried about it like a hysterical teenage girl either

[Eel O'Brian]

i mean, goddamn, i played over 100 hrs of oblivion without downloading a single piece of content, i think i got my money's worth

i think i'll probably get my money's worth out of fallout without the dlc, too

[cool breeze]

Honest question:  By having consoles versions, isn't the PC version improved?  Since there's more copies sold, there's more money for artists, audio, engineers, designers, etc, whose work is spread across all platforms?  I understand that the interface may be flawed, but otherwise, isn't presentation improved b/c of the addition resources?

People bitch about Invisible War.  Would a sequel have even been possible w/o the XBOX version?  These aren't rhetorical questions.  I'm genuinely curious.

No.  I mean, you will need other groups doing the console versions anyway, so that take up cost and resources.  Creative freedom is held back to get it to work on a controller and the average console gamer attention span.  If anything is improved, it would be the production values shared between (music, menu graphics, movies).  If you compare Morrowind which was built for PC and had a lazy port to the Xbox to Oblivion, which was made with consoles in mind, it is just ridiculous how much was dumbed down between them.  Fallout 3 now being designed for the Xbox 360 (from what it seems) just has me worried about how the overall quality will be.

I think Bioshock handled the situation of a console and PC game fairly well, but they are different types of games.

[JustinP]

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."

...

"When I say exclusive I mean it is exclusive to just the Xbox 360 and PC.

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

http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/bethesda-why-we-prefer-the-xbox-439961

Glad I chose the best console ever made.

Damn, Sony. Just DAMN.

it's exclusivity was announced at e3, you dolt.  obvious moneyhats, as the reasons given here don't even make sense .  they mention that they "are more familiar with the Xbox because we are familiar"...  and it's easier to do tech demonstrations at shows because you can put the game on a hdd and move the hdd around...  even though you can do that with a ps3 (though i guess it takes a little more time), or as jstevenson pointed out,

"Actually, it's even easier, my Resistance 2 demo and Q4B demo is on a memory stick (to be fair though, if you're not running in memory, you may need to have a devkit there, which can involve some shipping fun... and PS3 devkits are not small)" 

but who am i to hinder your mad ps3 trolling. 

[JustinP]

So the signal worked!

quality poster right here. 

[Brehvolution]

Hey I got a reply from Bethesda!

Not sure what you mean about Dog Armor.  Sorry to hear that you won't be
playing the game.

Thank you for your interest in Fallout 3.

THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I MEAN!