Game director and executive producer at Bethesda Game Studios, Todd Howard, discussed their upcoming RPG Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with AusGamers.
During the interview an interesting titbit of information emerged. The Xbox 360 versions of previous Bethesda games are apparently capable of supporting mods developed for the PC version. Howard indicated that they have development consoles performing this neat trick, so it’s not completely implausible that console versions of Skyrim could support mods.
Howard explained the hurdles to getting officially supported mods working for the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of Skyrim: “I think our PC mod community is one of the things that is great about our games. We’ve always supported it and we want to continue to do it. But a lot of our audience is on the consoles so they’re not experiencing that. So we have talked to Microsoft and Sony; “how do we do this?”
“There are still a lot of issues to solve. You could download a mod that destroys your game and we can’t have that. So we have not solved – even on paper yet – how to handle security. How do we handle not messing up your saved games and things like that,” said Howard.
“So it’s not going to be solved for the game’s release, but it’s something that we’re going to continue to look at because we think that it’s an awesome part of the game that the majority of our audience isn’t seeing,” said Howard.
AusGamers questioned Howard on the point of using PC mods on the console versions, to which he replied: “It actually works. If you have a devkit console you can take the PC mod files, put them on your Xbox and they work. They actually worked in Oblivion, Morrowind and Fallout 3.”
“For all of those games, I can take the PC mods and put them on my Xbox. We have one system so we just need to figure out the logistics of: how do we get it there?; How do we secure it?; How do we make it safe? It’s something that we would really like to do,” Howard concluded.
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i’ve seen a vid on youtube where sum1 played w/ alotta mods on PS3