PC Game Fun Time

The latest news is — if you can believe it — that Fallout 3 has already made $300 million in sales across all platforms. That’s way better than most movies can even pretend to aspire to. And according to our resident Fallout expert, the returns are deserved, as it’s a really good game.

I also find it kind of hard to fault Bethesda Software in deciding to dumb down Fallout somewhat in order to bring it to consoles. They wouldn’t have come close to $300 million in sales without selling those millions of copies for the console. We’re definitely seeing a trend here that has gone from emerging to mainstream: expect pretty much all AAA PC game titles to be released on gaming consoles as well from here on out. After publishers made such a killing on Bioshock, Far Cry 2, and now Fallout 3, there’s no way to financially justify to their shareholders the release of a PC-exclusive game these days. There may be a few remaining exceptions (such as Blizzard), but even they will “see the light” eventually. Heck, even Id Software is developing for consoles now.