i thought pc would be the lead platform

After seeing what they did with oblivion, i'm sure bethsada will be able to make great ports of this game.

I hope this does not mean delays. Midway said that they will develop with PS3 first, then port to 360 to make stuff better on PS3, but as has been said, they did a good job on oblivion. My concern would be the delays

Comparing the tech specs of a console and your average PC is misleading. You also have to consider how much RAM Windows Vista eats up, not to mention anything else that's running in the background. (Here's a hint: A lot.)

@ famousringo: "Dumbing down" control complexity is seldom a bad thing. Most PC developers' "complex controls" just involve plunking down obscure commands on to arbitrary hotkeys. Certain game genres like RTSes aside, console controls are usually more elegant and intuitive than keyboard/mouse, and that's what matters.

Also, console games may have been "dumbed down in terms of adult content" back in the SNES days, but certainly not today. Killer7 and God Of War had their infamous sex scenes, Manhunt 2 would have been one of the goriest games ever made if the ESRB hadn't gone insane over it, half the characters in half the games out there curse up a storm... Heck, don't even get me started on the "adult content" in, say, Silent Hill 2. The only PC exclusive that I can think of to have so much "adult content" in recent memory is The Witcher. 

Well, lets be honest a PC gamer is going to have more than 1gb of ram. And most PC gamers have eliminated the junk programs from their startup list so there are not that many programs running in the backround.

To paraphrase die hard:
"Vista?! Who gives a fuck about Vista?"

If the PC version sucks, heads will roll. That's all I have to say.

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I don't expect most of you console players to understand...but just as you say console controls and standardised graphics are more elegant and convenient, respectively, I disagree. I think the amount of control available from hundreds of keys on a keyboard combined with the speed and accuracy of a mouse drastically changes a game experience, and for FPSs, RTSs, and quite a few different games, it's a much better experience.

I understand that FPSs and RTSs can be tailored for consoles, and that it is certainly fun. I have stupid PC fanboy friends that won't even try Gears of War or Halo because they spit on the analog controls. I understand how they feel, but the controls work fine for how the game is designed.

But for a game like this, the controls have been designed for a keyboard and mouse, and it's definitely different and for the worse, in my opinion, using a gamepad. There's just not enough buttons on gamepads to do the kind of stuff we do on keyboards...for instance, choosing a Spy disguise in TF2. You have to press a button on the 360 controller, and then move the analog stick to pick a disguise. Awful! It's a waste of time. I'd rather press 4, then 3, and I immediately disguise as a Pyro.

Anyway...I understand that Fallout 3 will probably still turn out fine on PC...but I hate that they're not working to their fullest ability on EACH platform, if not PC, because that's the base that brought you up!

Take a hint from Valve...develop for PC, make the best product you can make, and you won't need to worry about the console games...they'll just be bonuses to the great sales you already got for PC.

What Ben said

You just need to get a few million people to feel the same way you do and to buy (as in pay money for) lots of PC games instead of 360/PS3/Wii games.

 QFT

 It's a shame, actually. I don't have nothing against Oblivion in the postapocaliptyc future, but that's just not Fallout. But i won't rush out with judgments - we'll see how this turns out.