Fallout 4 mods are coming to PlayStation 4 after all

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PlayStation 4 owners will finally get the opportunity to try out player-created Fallout 4 mods on their console later this week, Bethesda has announced, ending a long-running feud between the publisher and console-maker Sony.

The announcement comes as something of a surprise, given a September blog post in which Bethesda squarely blamed Sony for the delayed promise of console mod support on the 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," the publisher wrote. "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."

Sony has now apparently stepped out of the way, though there is still one major limitation: Mods on the PS4 will be restricted to 1GB in file size. That's up from the 900MB imposed in an early beta but lower than the full 2GB that mod makers can use on the Xbox One.