It's unlikely the XBox 360 or PS3 meet the system requirements for the GECK. It all comes down to economics, not politics. But I'm betting that 99% of those people would Not be willing to pay more money for a GECK - surely not enough to offset the costs of trying to make it work. Now if enough of you get togehter by the hundred-thousands and all petition to Bethesda to make a console GECK, you might provide enough finanical incentive to make it worth their while. Its impossible for me to say, but the GECK is At Least 250,000 lines of code. I say that because the GECK is an Enormously complex piece of software (and I write software for a living), and I can just imagine how difficult it would be to port all those hundreds of functions into another computing environment. Porting the GECK to a console would be a Huge undertaking and would cost Alot of money internally to make work right - if they could even pull it off. Its not a slight against anyone, its not an attempt to make the console players mad or reward PC players - its simply that a console is NOT an open computer, and the Bethesda game engines are built on PC's for use by PC's when making the games.
I feel for the console folks, but this is one reality that isn't going to change with NV. Its not just the GECK that you need, its a GIMP, a Blender, an Audacity, a Word processor, a Nifskope and probably half a dozen other tools to make meaningful content - and consoles are just not designed to be open computers.
I'm sure there will be some other tweaks, but nothing at all indicating that modding would be possible on a console - the technology simply does not support console modding, and having done alot of modding myself now I can tell you that you Really need the resources of a computer. Repost - what J.E.Sawyer said in the recent interview is that they did not change the GECK very much, but rather went with minor changes (such as the new follower wheel, the improved LOD they mentioned and the improved dialogue system that was mentioned a few months ago).
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