‘Fallout 4: Pip Boy Edition’ 100% Sold-Out; Bethesda ‘Can’t Make More’

Can’t or won’t is the operative question that needs to be asked here. In a recent interview with Gamespot, Bethesda Marketing VP, Pete Hines, said that the factory making the special edition of Fallout 4  has hit their capacity.

They’re being made today, it’s not like they’re done and sitting in a warehouse. [The factories would tell us,] this is what the yields say. I mean, we don’t make [the Pip-Boy Editions], and we’d go back to [the factories] and say, ‘Demand for this is insane, we’ve got to make more.’ And they’d move other projects off or shift stuff to other factories and it just came to [them telling Bethesda], ‘Final answer: sorry, this is as many as we can make.’ And we sold every single one of those that we could.

If you’re NOT in the know, the special edition of Fallout 4 comes with a replica of the in game device of the same name. This plastic shell will house your phone, and run an app that interfaces with the game, so you can go menu diving on your wrist.

I personally find it very Nintendo of them to say they can’t make more. It’s a definite WON’T scenario with Bethesda here, as a second or third printing would yield them a HUGE amount of sales. Ebay listings of the preorder right now are starting at around $300 US! THREE HUNDRED! 

Fallout 4 hits store shelves November 10th on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.