Update: Larry Hryb just tweeted that Fallout 4 has mods on Xbox One since May. Even Mike Ybarra joined in on the fun.
According to a press release Bethesda put out today, PlayStation 4 versions of Fallout 4 and Skyrim: Special Edition won’t get mod support. The company said:
After months of discussion with Sony, we regret to say that while we have long been ready to offer mod support on PlayStation 4, Sony has informed us they will not approve user mods the way they should work: where users can do anything they want for either Fallout 4 or Skyrim: Special Edition.
Like you, we are disappointed by Sony’s decision given the considerable time and effort we have put into this project, and the amount of time our fans have waited for mod support to arrive. We consider this an important initiative and we hope to find other ways user mods can be available for our PlayStation audience. However, until Sony will allow us to offer proper mod support for PS4, that content for Fallout 4 and Skyrim on PlayStation 4 will not be available.
We will provide an update if and when this situation changes.
While it’s a shame that Sony couldn’t get over their rigid policies and limitation to implement mods, it’s great news for at least gamers because if they want to play mods on a console, they can always get the Xbox One version.
Asher is a games journalist, former News Writer (Gaming) at Windows Central. They contributed 1110 articles to ICXM between 2015–2017, focused on opinion pieces, game reviews, Windows and PC, and Xbox news: wrote over 1,100 ICXM pieces on Xbox news, hardware reviews, and platform commentary before joining Future plc’s Windows Central in 2017.