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[Pope Tiger]

This was posted on the official Bethesda forums by Lindsay Muller, a representative of Bethesda's marketing department in response to a topic on Linux/Mac ports of Fallout 3:

It could happen if there is a large enough demand and if we are approached by a Mac games publisher such as Macsoft or Aspyr. Bethesda Softworks would not port it. So if you want to see Fallout 3 or any of our other games ported to Mac, contact either or both Mac publisher and request it.

Link: Thread at Bethesda forum.

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[radnan]

I thought this was DX based game and porting it to OpenGL can be costly .. then again when you have all the assets sans code it could be an option ... time for fallout3 on the wii
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[duckfighter]

The platform is not locked to directx, Oblivion works on PS3 you know

[radnan]

i'm sorry after further research on the subject it seems i was wrong http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamebryo since the engine is crossplatform to a certain extent ... pretty cool
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[FeelTheRads]

Wait... Gamebryo isn't developed by Bethesda?
I didn't even check before, I just took it as obvious...

Damn.. is there anything these people do for themselves?
The engine is bought, they hire other companies to do their graphics...
One would think in such case they'd have plenty of time to make a good RPG.

Seems not.
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[Brillo]

[Tygernoot]

Indeed, that doesn't mean anything at all. Typically another excuse for bashing Bethesda for nothing .

Game developers use existing graphical engines, sound engines, physics engines, libraries, ... It's just the way games are made nowadays, since they are getting so complex it becomes impossible to build them yourself completely.

Anyway, on topic. A mac port would surely be nice (I have a PC and a Macbook Pro), but since you can now install Windows to run natively on an intel mac I don't think it would be really necessary.
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[monsharen]

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