12-09-2003, 12:44 PM
While Interplay may not be likely to license Van Buren to Obsidian (assuming Obsidian could pick up where everyone who was at BIS but didn't go to Obsidian left off), it's not because of the FO:BOS games, necessarily. After all, licenses for console games don't need to cover PC games and vice versa - which is why Interplay can produce Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance console games, but not Baldur's Gate PC RPGs.
While several Obsidian employees did work on Fallout 3, I don't think that it would be a viable thing for them to pick up Van Buren. Maybe they could - and it'd be great - but I doubt it.
Interplay's been busily cutting off anything it can to keep afloat because it's been bleeding money since forever. Few of its console titles that were supposed to give a cash infusion did so. Cutting off BIS is just another in a long line of such decisions.
Also, no matter how poorly FO:BOS does, it's likely to make much more money than Fallout 3 ever would have. Console action titles tend to do better than PC RPG titles - often by an order of magnitude.
While several Obsidian employees did work on Fallout 3, I don't think that it would be a viable thing for them to pick up Van Buren. Maybe they could - and it'd be great - but I doubt it.
Interplay's been busily cutting off anything it can to keep afloat because it's been bleeding money since forever. Few of its console titles that were supposed to give a cash infusion did so. Cutting off BIS is just another in a long line of such decisions.
Also, no matter how poorly FO:BOS does, it's likely to make much more money than Fallout 3 ever would have. Console action titles tend to do better than PC RPG titles - often by an order of magnitude.