Hello everyone, I'm completely new so I apologize if I am beating a dead horse here or if I am inciting some flame post, however I am rather curious as to why the Xbox version of Skyrim has been doomed to purely vanilla Skyrim. Of course the original game itself is incredible, however the creation kit is such a massively INCREDIBLE tool for this game.

Is it due to its immense power that it is not on the Xbox? Possibly that it is too expansive to download/buy?

Honestly, I would love the ability to construct a house, dungeon, fort, or even possibly a town through the creation kit and would even be willing to pay the 20 dollars or whatever a DLC costs these days.

NOTE: As said before, I am in no way attempting to troll or anything of the sort. Please don't bite my head off.

I'll leave this to one of the PC guys to explain i think...

It's not impossible, it woulnd't be as advance as the creation kit for PC but it could happen. Look at Infamous 2 and the UGC... sorry ps3 exclusive. But you can make your own levels, so it could work in the sense that it would be just missions... or something. and knowing bethesda, it would be Xbox only to...

dont hold your breath

The creation kit will not run on xbox. even if Beth could do it, Microshaft and Sony still say no.

The XBox lacks the hardware capability to run the CK in any way shape or form. Plus, Microsoft does not allow user created content as it can destabilize the system and they dont want people calling support because they ruined their console doing something stupid.

I dont know but "doomed"?.The game is great even without any mods.And as far es we know they are working to bring mods to consoles ergo Xbox360 but there are still alot of problems with Microsoft and Sony beeing very protective.We have to wait and see what happens.But i personally doubt that we will se any mods on XBOX or PS3.

Hi and welcome to the forums I'm sorry to say, but the Creation Kit will not be available to the consoles for a number of reasons.

1) Bethesda created the Creation Kit to build the game world. They build the game world on the PC, just like how they use Photoshop and 3DS MAX on the PC and not on the consoles. So the main purpose of the Creation Kit is to be a tool to make the game development easier, that they then can give away their tool for free is just an added bonus.

2) Sort of related to 1, it's a waste of money to develop a Creation Kit that they will never use. They already built the game world on the PC, why would they develop specific console versions? It won't benefit their game development in any way.

3) The Creation Kit is a Windows program and heavily use the specific Windows APIs that aren't available on the consoles. To port it to the consoles would not only take a lot of paid development time, it wouldn't be easy either.

4) The Creation Kit use noticeably more RAM than the game itself. The consoles doesn't have enough RAM to run the Creation Kit.

5) If there was a crippled console Creation Kit (why on earth would they release a crippled product!?), it would still eventually run out of RAM because the town got too big or whatever, and cause the console to crash. While a PC practially can't run out of RAM, it will just increase the pagefile.

Then there are the extra work on how mods should be distributed on the consoles and so on. Not to mention that a lot of PC people who try mods make their games unreliable and the PC starts to crash noticeably more, so more support is needed as well, not only from Bethesda, but from Microsoft and Sony as well.


So yeah, if you want to play around with the Creation Kit, you need to buy the PC version, sorry.