The sold out Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Edition won’t be restocked because Bethesda simply can’t have any more units manufactured, marketing VP Pete Hines has told GameSpot.
With limited-run collector’s editions there’s always that nagging feeling that the publisher could produce more units if it wanted, but with the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Hines says it’s simply not possible.
“We reached a point where we’d go back to the factories and they were like, ‘guys, this is it, sorry. This is as long as we can run the lines and as many of them as we can make.’” said Hines.
He added: “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.”
As for suggestions that Bethesda didn’t order enough of the Pip-Boy edition, Hines says, “I think we did more of these things than we did for any collector’s edition we’ve ever done, ever”.
Source: GameSpot
