What Lack Of Bethesda Mod Support Could Mean for Sony

Will Sony imposed limitations hurt future plans at Bethesda? Is this the beginning of exclusive content going to the Xbox One or PC?

[SniperControl]

"Is this the beginning of exclusive content going to the Xbox One or PC?"

Like Bethesa are going to ignore 40+ million potential customers.

[Resis7ance]

I don't think we'll see Bethesda steer away from Sony but timed content for example, could still be plausible. COD players on Xbox One still buy the DLC when it launches, even if it is 30 days after PS4 release, so it wouldn't eliminate PS4 users.

[NewMonday]

exclusive game breaking bugs

[TheCommentator]

New Monday, It's the PS versions of Bethesda's games that have had all the exclusive game-breaking bugs. That trend will continue, I'm sure.

[ninjazfistz]

It COULD happen on a game or two especially with a little cash...but yeah I don't think they will stop making Playstation games at all.

[MasterCornholio]

I don't believe Bethesda will abandon those gamers either.

[NXSwitch]

Just like in the past when 3rd parties left Nintendo because of all the harsh rules they laid on 3rd parties between Sega & Sony early years? Anything can happen & Sony better watch it.

[Kiwi66]

Guess they might have to if they can't sort things out with sony but at least theres still a glimmer of hope that they won't have to

[Aceman18]

It means nothing in the grand scheme of things, it's not like these mods were going to make the system sell more systems something it's already doing on its own.

[ONESHOTV2]

SniperControl--- 40 million is nothing but a hand in a lake compared to pc so where do you think they should keep their focus again ?

[XXanderXX]

If all 40 million bought their game no , but seeing that the number of those likely to buy their game is more in the neighborhood of maybe 2-3 million instead .
If they are willing to ignore those numbers then yes theirs a possibility that they can go PC & Xbox exclusive with content & even games . It's a wait and see game now

[SlyFoxC]

well Farming Simulator 2017 has mods confirmed for PS4 day one. so idk..

[2pacalypsenow]

seeing as the Ps4 version of Fallout 4 outsold the Xbox 1 version by almost 3 million it would stupid to make it exclusive to the Xbox 1

[ninjazfistz]

I agree. Maybe a DLC, mode or expansion will be exclusive though. I don't like exclusives, for the record, from 3rd party companies.

[Goldby]

Rhey have fallout 4 in vr next year. Thats fhe exclusiveness. Real question will be qhen skyrim comes out do they charge the same for the game on ps4 seeing as a huge selling feature is the mods and the lack of them mean we arent getting the same game

[Summons75]

Tell that to Sony who shot them down.

[arkard]

Sony didn't shoot anyone down. Bethesda wanted to use pc friendly things like textures and sound when the ps4 is not designed like that. Instead of finding a way to make it work Bethesda blamed Sony. Sony did not in the last week decide mods can't happen on ps4. Bethesda over promised and does not want to take the heat for it.

[Charybdis]

@arkard They kinda did
“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”

[freshslicepizza]

is the system also not designed to have external hard drive support, or allow cross play with other consoles, or have competing services like ea access? looks to me like sony is tightening the noose more and more and you guys seem rather ok with it.

[TFJWM]

@Charybdis No it pretty much proves Arkard's point. Sony told them at the start what they would allow or not allow to happen on the system at the start. "After months of discussion with Sony" Sony still didn't budge on what they required for Mods so instead of Bethesda conforming with Sony's wishes they decided no mods.

[TheCommentator]

Your post is irrelevant because it says exclusive content, not exclusive games, right in the title. You know, like the exclusive PS4 content for Destiny? Don't worry though, you'll still get games with exclusive problems, just not exclusive gameplay.

[Rimeskeem]

The title is slight click bait. Sony won't do mod support with Bethesda for unspecified reasons. That means they could do it with other devs and publishers.

[Resis7ance]

I completely agree with the title, it's been edited. Although not through here as I didn't submit the article.

[Rimeskeem]

I mean the title is alright it just confused me cause I thought it meant no mod support from anyone.

[ninjazfistz]

Umm. I never edited the submission. Maybe the source did after uploading?

[Resis7ance]

No @ninjazfistz that was the original title but I can see where people might get confused and have edited the title of the article to be less confusing, you can edit the title to match if you wish.

@Rimeskeem I completely understand.

[ninjazfistz]

Yeah. They changed it on me making me look bad LOL. Fixed!

[Resis7ance]

@ninjazfistz I can assure you that wasn't the case ;)

[ninjazfistz]

I will update the title with the change made to the article title. It WAS clickbaity.

[Rimeskeem]

Much appreciated :)

[ninjazfistz]

What is with the stealth disagrees with no comments? I don't see comments saying why

Edit: Nvm I see because he put sales figures in favor of a PS4 version of Fallout where it wasn't really necessary? Maybe I shouldn't have agreed. Oh well. We all know he is right. But I guess he shouldn't have said it though because its obvious Fallout will be on there...true. Man this site gets pissed off quick.

[SaveFerris]

It means annoyed PS4 fans of Skyrim and Fallout 4.

[peewee11016]

I swear i read somewhere that Bethesda wanted more of something in the PS4 but Sony. Said it is a set amount for every developer and that they were not going to give them the extra because of console performance. Also they did not want other developers feel like the got shafted as well when they asked

[cfc83]

Think it might be the amount of mod space each player can download. On xb1 each player is allowed 2gb, which is enough for many, but not enough for some. On ps4 i don't think players would be allowed 2gb, plus if the game isn't performing well on ps4, some mods wouldn't help.

[peewee11016]

Yeah thats what it was. But i was hearing that that wanted alot. IDK if alot is 2gbs but idk. Its not all on SONY.

[starrman1985]

I think it means they wont get mod support..

[Summons75]

It's 2 games, it means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things since gaming is about gaming and not breaking the game to get all the weapons at the start or making all the women nude. The appeal mods on Fallout 4 Xbox One lasted about a month then they became boring and made the game run poorly. Mods aren't a bad thing but it's also not going to affect the industry either being on consoles or not.

[madmonkey01]

it means nothing at all. no one cared until bethesda failed to get them approved.

[Sam Fisher]

Wtf are talking about, speak for yourself i supported fallout 4 just bc they announced mod support, skyrim was going to be an other but thank the higher ups said no, they lost my future sales

[Tobsesan]

One Company gives bethesda everything they need, from Support to new way more powerfull hardware to the only place that can run theire games in vr on consoles. The other one just ignores bethesda.

[boing1]

Pretty sure it doesn't mean anything in the long run.

[lex-1020]

Anyone that is surprised about the apparent Sony/Bethesda row hasn't been keeping up with the times. This is nothing new. Lets look at Oblivion, the first Bethesda made game on a PS system. It was released years after the Xbox and still contains many game breaking bugs removed from the Xbox version. Jump to Fallout 3. Time exclusive DLC for xbox and a broken GOTY edition for Sony. Skyrim. We should all know about the issues getting DLC onto the PS3 for that, but also the glitches that cause the game to crash when going underwater, frame rate issues, etc. Now Fallout 4 and the mods.

Bethesda and Sony have never really played nice together. Bethesda doesn't adapt their development to accommodate Sony's architecture and Sony won't accommodate Bethesda. Anyone could have predicted this would be the end result, in fact I did predict it when Fallout 4 was announced. I told my friend, "Don't get it on PS4, it's never going to get mods." Just take a look at Sony/Bethesda history and you'll realize you should never get a Bethesda game on a Sony console.

[esmittystud101]

90% of the community like the fact that mods stay on PC and not on consoles. Don't get me wrong. I had a Game Genie for NES back in 1990.......................but this day and age I'm glad mods are not on consoles.

Mods separate the console and PC environment for ages and hopefully sticks to that. If you want mods, buy a PC where the mods are actually worth a sh*t. Console mods suck anyways. I'm glad Sony made the decision they did because they have been striking out for a while now on a lot of decisions.

[Sam Fisher]

You sound like a guy that self sucks, you sus

[esmittystud101]

What? I can't tell what you said to save my life, LOL.

Anyways, Vote Trump - Make America Great Again and have a nice day. :)

[kaizokuspy]

A few games with mods isn't going to make me go out and buy an xbox one. You need a robust library to do that

[phantomexe]

Yea ms was so open on the 360...there a reason ff14 isn't on xbox one. Im not happy about the know mod support on ps4 like so many others but I just won't buy it. Sony and bugseda need to work something out.