According to Pete Hines, VP of Marketing at Bethesda, has confirmed that the copy of Fallout 3 included with Fallout 4 will be backwards compatible but not remastered via Twitter.

In my opinion this is a good thing. Fallout 3 will remain in its state from when we played it before and won’t detract from the updated visuals in Fallout 4. Granted, Fallout 3 could definitely benefit from a facelift, but in this case it will remain in the state it was the first time we played it.

I’m also glad that they did not take time away from the production of Fallout 4 to remaster the entirety of Fallout 3. We might have had to wait another year for them to update and create all new assets for what is a huge game.

I hope for Obsidian to follow suit and provide a backwards compatibility option for New Vegas, as it is not included in the games currently backwards compatible for Xbox One, a feature which was revealed on Monday at E3.

To learn more about Microsoft’s conference, you can read our summary here. For all other Fallout news in the past and the future, stay tuned to Pretty in Pixel.