Oh, Rockstar Games. The dev that absolutely loves taking its sweet time with anything and everything it does. Not that we're complaining — look how great GTA V turned out. Quality work needs time, and in the case that the idea hasn't been abandoned, then the Playstation 4 and Xbox One versions of the Rockstar Editor will be damn good, considering that the possibility of the video editing software coming to current-gen consoles was first mentioned by Rockstar back in May, and we've had no word on the matter since. Work was already well under way at the time, but Rockstar didn't give any specifics regarding when the Editor will be released on the consoles.
Due to hardware restrictions, there is absolutely no way that the Rockstar Editor will ever be released on the previous generation of consoles, so Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 GTA players will need to live out their fantasies of being a film director in some other way (may I suggest the PC and possibly the current-gen versions of GTA V?).
How much the console version of the Editor will differ from the one that shipped with GTA V's PC version, we do not know, but it can be assumed that some of the functionality will be more limited. The director mode will hopefully be present, but we cannot be sure in what capacity.
Another way in which the Rockstar Editor will be limited on consoles will be the lack of mods. What is the connection between these seemingly unrelated things? Well, if you take a look at youtube, then the top Rockstar Editor videos will pretty much be exclusively modded creations, making use of fan created content in some capacity or other. Videos of 100% vanilla GTA V will be plenty, sure, but hardly as popular as recreations of popular pop-culture scenes, for example, the best of which all utilize mods.
Do you guys hope the Editor will have an outing on consoles?
