bit-tech News: Fallout 3 Interview: Pete Hines

news · August 11, 2008

Hi all,

We have just published an interview with *Bethesda's Pete Hines* to

discuss *Fallout 3*. If you could post a link on your site that would be

very much appreciated.

*Link:*

*Picture:*

*Quote:

*/*BT:* So, why did you choose the Xbox 360 as a lead platform? The

series has traditionally been on PC.

*Pete:* Well, for us, //Oblivion was multi-platform. The Xbox 360 has

been out long enough and we have more experience with it than with the

PlayStation 3. Whenever you pick a platform it's always better to go

with one that is fixed. The PC is not fixed.

When we talk about having a par level of performance across all three

platforms, it is nigh impossible to define that for a PC user. I have no

idea what GPU, RAM, CPU or soundcard you have. Or even which OS you are

running. So, saying that the PC is a lead platform -- well, what does

that mean in terms of how much RAM we have to use?

On the Xbox 360 though, all of that is very well defined. It also ends

up making it great for PC because those constraints define the

boundaries of the PC version. If you have a better PC than an Xbox 360

then you can scale up and do better -- but it's much, much more

difficult to go the other way./

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*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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