Because everything made in the greyzone of “until the IP owner sends us a cease and desist” risks the console producer (sony/Microsoft/Nintendo etc) getting in trouble for allowing the content on their hardware.
In this specific instance the IP owner and the console manufacturer are one and the same. I just don’t see Microsoft spending any effort on porting Fallout 2, though. I could see them remaking the original two though with how popular some of their other remakes have been recently.
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Because everything made in the greyzone of “until the IP owner sends us a cease and desist” risks the console producer (sony/Microsoft/Nintendo etc) getting in trouble for allowing the content on their hardware.
In this specific instance the IP owner and the console manufacturer are one and the same. I just don’t see Microsoft spending any effort on porting Fallout 2, though. I could see them remaking the original two though with how popular some of their other remakes have been recently.
Todd has recently explicitly said he has no interest in remaking the games before fallout 3