Bethesda announced that its next edition of the Fallout franchise will debut on Xbox 360 approximately 6 weeks before it is available on the PlayStation 3.

“This is our biggest, most ambitious video game to date,” said Jergin Yurchayn of Bethesda.  “The world itself will be roughly nine times larger than Fallout 3 and gamers can look forward to at least a 60-hour single-player experience.”

The news sent aftershocks through the ranks of fanboys on both sides of the aisle.

“We all know that they’re doing it because the PS3 is the suxxxors and Xbox is the best game console ever,” said a gamer known as IblEedgREEn on Xbox Live.

“Nobody even PLAYS those stupid Bethesda games ANYWAY,” said an avid PS3 gamer wishing to be called simply J.R.

In an effort to manage audience misconceptions, Bethesda amended its statement to better explain the timed exclusivity of Fallout 4.

“With a game of this size, we thought it only fair that we give Xbox 360 gamers a head start,” explained Yurchayn.  “This way Xbox owners have plenty of time to save up for larger hard-drives and copy all 32- discs to their drive.  It was the fair thing to do.”