If you haven't had time to pre-order Fallout 4's Pip-Boy Edition announced during E3, we have bad news for you. Bethesda has no plans to produce any further copies. This was one of the topics that the VP of Marketing at Bethesda, Pete Hines, has discussed with GameSpot during QuakeCon, a few days ago in Texas.
As explained by Hines, the reason is that the factory that produced this collector's edition simply does "not have capacity to make more of them":
"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".
"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."
Even Bethesda had not expected this level of success for this Collector's Edition, which actually exceeded the other collector's editions made in the past by the company:
"We made a s**tload of Pip-Boys, and we went back and made more, and went back and made more. I keep seeing stuff about, 'Oh, you only did a few thousand." No--we did a ton of these things. I think we did more of these things than we did for any collector's edition we've ever done, ever."
And here's what is contained in the Pip-Boy Edition: a wearable Pip-Boy, a Pip-Boy pocket guide, a Robco Industries stand at Vault-Tec Posters Perk, the game with a collectible metal case, all enclosed in a sturdy capsule.
Fallout 4 (with or without Pip-Boy) will be available from November 10 on PS4, Xbox One and PC.