

It has a value of 1 and uses the blue pass card as a model.Įnd of information based on Fallout New Vegas cut content. Inside the game files exists a unused duplicate item called just "Platinum Chip" (no "The").

The following is based on Fallout New Vegas cut content and has not been confirmed by canon sources. It is also possible to obtain the Chip by either working with or killing Caesar. The Platinum Chip can be obtained by killing Benny. Despite its name it is not made of platinum, rather it refers to the data itself. During the Great War, these weapons where used to prevent most of the nuclear warheads from destroying Las Vegas and the surrounding area, and, if the Platinum Chip had reached House in time, would have prevented all of the warheads from hitting the Vegas area. House's endeavors, the Lucky 38 is also armed with a missile defense grid. Besides being a casino and the head quarters for Mr. Though a proprietary format, the Platinum Chip also contains software upgrades for the Lucky 38's systems. The Mark II operating system has numerous features that the Mark I system lacks, most notably drivers for an auto-repair system as well as the correct drivers for the grenade & missile launcher weapons that all Securitrons are equipped with but unable to use. In addition to opening otherwise locked facilities controlled by the Lucky 38 casino's computers, the Chip contains the Mark II operating system for Securitron robots. The Chip is a sophisticated, high density data storage device.

The only locations on Earth that have the computer hardware necessary to read the chip are inside the Lucky 38 Casino and a weather monitoring station on Fortification Hill. House's protégé intended to use it to gain control of the New Vegas Strip and make it an independent power in the wasteland, free of his employer's machinations. Once it was located, he had it sent to New Vegas via the Mojave Express.Ĭarried by the Courier from southern NCR, through the Hub, to New Vegas, the chip was intercepted by Benny in Goodsprings. House spent millions of caps (812,545 in 2280 alone) to find it. After regaining consciousness from his coma after saving Las Vegas from full nuclear destruction, Mr. The Platinum Chip was designed by Robert House and was printed at great expense in Sunnyvale on October 22, 2077, a day before the Great War, but it became lost in the following nuclear holocaust.
