From 2GB to 100GB:
Console Modding Just Changed
Bethesda Game Studios has confirmed a Creations storage expansion for all console versions of Fallout 4, arriving May 27, 2026 — six months after it was originally planned alongside the game’s 10th Anniversary Edition in November 2025. Xbox Series X|S players get the biggest jump: a scalable 100GB cap, up from just 2GB. PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, and Xbox One users go from 1–2GB to approximately 15GB. Console modding has never had this much room to breathe. As the wider Fallout community waits on what Xbox has planned next for the franchise, this update keeps Fallout 4 very much alive on current and last-gen hardware.
The expansion was first promised when the Fallout 4 Anniversary Edition launched on November 10, 2025 — a re-release that bundled the base game with all six official add-ons (Automatron, Far Harbor, Nuka-World, and the three Workshop expansions), plus over 150 pieces of Creation Club content. At that launch, technical issues delayed the storage rollout. Bethesda confirmed May 27 as the new date via a social media post on May 20, 2026.
Sony platform rules explain why PlayStation users get a smaller allocation than Xbox Series X|S. Per Bethesda’s statement, the ~15GB figure applies to PS4, PS5, and Xbox One uniformly, while Xbox Series X|S gets a scalable ceiling of 100GB — a figure that puts console modders in territory previously only available to PC players. Meanwhile, the Fallout tabletop community has also been active: see our coverage on Fallout: Factions — Battle for Boston Wasteland Warfare Second Edition for the latest.
Load orders will reset when the update arrives. Bethesda has advised that players with saves older than November 10, 2025 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PS5 are expected to be affected. Saving your load order now takes under two minutes. After the update, restoring it is equally fast. Here is the exact process Bethesda has outlined:
Load Order Archive.Save Load Order to Bethesda.net, then confirm. Wait for the success message.Restore Load Order from Bethesda.net to reload your full setup.If you haven’t loaded your save in a while, Bethesda also recommends launching the game and making a fresh manual save before the patch lands. Players who use the Fallout community on Reddit to coordinate load orders and mod builds will find this step particularly useful ahead of the update.
Extra storage space opens up mod combinations that were simply not possible before on consoles. Below is a breakdown of what becomes practical once the update lands — and what remains off the table.
This update has been months in the making. Here is how the Fallout 4 console mod storage story developed from the game’s original release through to the May 27 rollout.
While Fallout 4 continues to receive support, the broader franchise conversation has centred on Fallout 5. According to a report by Windows Central executive editor Jez Corden on the Xbox Two Podcast, Fallout 5 has been fully greenlit — though who is leading development was described as uncertain at the time of the report. Bethesda Game Studios’ core teams are currently working on The Elder Scrolls VI. Todd Howard confirmed in a prior IGN interview: “Yes, Elder Scrolls 6 is in pre-production and, you know, we’re going to be doing Fallout 5 after that, so our slate’s pretty full going forward for a while.”
Howard has also said the production schedules for the two projects overlap, though The Elder Scrolls VI remains the primary focus. Fans tracking the RPG landscape alongside these developments should note our coverage of Warhorse Studios’ Middle-earth RPG announcement for context on where open-world RPG development stands across the industry, and GTA 6’s reported delay discussions for a wider picture of how AAA release windows are playing out.
Fan reaction to the timeline remains divided. On Reddit, one community member noted: “Bethesda focuses on one main project at a time. After FO4 was Starfield, then it’s Elder Scrolls 6, then Fallout. So be prepared to wait until like 2033.” Another added: “Game developers are only human and a rushed project is no good.” A third put it plainly: “You’re not entitled to another Fallout game. If they decide they never want to make another one again, that’s their choice.”
The Fallout 4 Creations storage expansion was covered here as confirmed for May 27, 2026 — a rollout first planned for the game’s 10th Anniversary Edition release in November 2025. The article covered the per-platform storage figures, load order backup steps as outlined by Bethesda, what the extra space makes possible and what it does not change (F4SE mods remain PC-only), and the timeline from Fallout 4’s original 2015 release through the Anniversary Edition to this update. Fallout 5’s greenlit status and its position behind The Elder Scrolls VI in Bethesda’s pipeline were also addressed.