Fallout 3 - Dogmeat, DLC, Lead Platform and More @ videogaming247

A site called videogaming247 has a series of comment snippets from Pete Hines on Fallout 3.  Rather than collecting the conversation into a full interview or preview, they've released a rapid-fire series of short articles on each issue, with some interesting things touched on.

First, the X360 is apparently the lead platform (apparently the PC doesn't get counted in such conversations):

“The 360 is our lead development platform, so we got it working on that one first,” he said. I mean, we develop them all simultaneously, but one of them’s got to be the lead, so it was 360.”

The choice was made more by the timing of the console’s release than anything else, Hines added.

“We had a year’s head start on the 360 because it came out a year earlier, so we had final dev hardware to work with earlier on than we did with PS3,” he said. “But as this point all three of them are pretty much on par. The goal is that, if I get three versions in here and hide the console or PC and just had them running on the screen, that you wouldn’t be able to tell the difference.”

Can we extrapolate that the PC interface will also be the same?

Next, their goal is 30FPS on every platform.  And then, the PC spec will be "similar to what Oblivion was for its time".

Moving along, DLC is likely:

“Given how successful it was for us on Oblivion, certainly it’s a given that we’ll look into it and what we’d like to do,” he said, talking of extra content for the anticipated post-apocalyptic RPG.

“But I can’t tell you when, I can’t tell you what it would be, or what it would look like. Will it be bigger stuff like Knights of the Nine or smaller stuff? We’ve no idea. We’ll let folks know once we get down the road.”

...and lastly, Dogmeat is dogmeat if he dies:

What happens if he dies?

“Dead,” said Hines.

Is there another dog?

“Nope. One dog. Be careful.”

Thanks, r3dshift!