Fallout 4: 10 Outrageous Rumours That Won't Happen
3. Console Mods
Some (extremely hopeful) speculation has emerged over the past few months that Bethesda are eager to allow for modding to take place on consoles, finally making Playstation and Xbox owners the equal of their PC-owning cousins. It is truly a great disappointment that modded content has eluded console owners for so long indeed, some mods have improved so vastly on the original package that gamers who cannot implement modified content are truly missing out. For example, the World of Pain mod for New Vegas was an incredible addition to the most recent Fallout game. Console owners have been suffering in silence while PC gamers have enjoyed the bountiful fruit of the modding community. Though console-gaming fans of Fallout eagerly speculate that we could be seeing mods coming to their preferred platforms, the reality is that the pleas of Xbox and Playstation gamers are likely to continue to go unanswered. The fact of the matter is that there simply isn't the same freedom on consoles as on the PC. The internal architecture of the PS4 and Xbox One may have come to resemble the technology found in state-of-the-art gaming computers, but Microsoft and Sony demand that all downloadable content passes through their rigorous certification process and gets approval (which costs a small fortune). The beauty of modding for the PC is that anybody with the necessary talent can do it, whereas these stipulations will prevent a modding community from ever developing on consoles.
Hailing from South East London, Sam Heard is an aspiring writer and recent graduate from the University of Warwick. Sam's favourite things include energy drinks, late nights spent watching the UFC with his girlfriend and annihilating his friends at FIFA.
