Bethesda Wants Skyrim Mods on Consoles

[ninja51]

Itd be the first game to ever do that... I play TES on the Xbox... Ive seen the power of Morrowind mods... Id shit myself if this happens...

 

[Wolcik]

That would create a new era in gaming XD

 

[Kelethor]

DO WANT NAOW!

 

[PettingZOOPONY]

Current PC users barely appreciate them, and from the looks of things console players would.

Ok, last comment.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

The mod below has more views than the game page on the same site.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/call-of-pripyat-complete

You know that Red Orchestra was also a mod and is currently getting a sequel and the original made its money back on pre-orders alone?

You know that developers barely support mods so how in the world do you expect great mods to come out and people to appreciate them if the games are barely moddable?

Great mods are becoming more and more scarce...but don't sit here and say that it's the fault of the users. It is not.

It is the fault of the users, I used to be a part of a huge mod team that did mods since morrowind, after dealing with the shit users we stopped releasing mods after oblivion for public use and only do private now. I can tell you have never done a mod because it is the users that drive modders mad with stupid ass comments and general shitty attitudes if you don't cater to them and them only.

As for Dev's supporting mods most still do really well, some have jumped ship but the games that have a strong history of getting modded are still getting worked over.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

Dammit Bethesda, why do you make me love you?

 

[scorptatious]

YES. YES. Make it happen. YES.

Now if only Valve would do the same with games like Left 4 Dead. I only own the 360 versions of those games and I kind of envy the PC players for having access to user created content.

 

[Aphroditty]

500k versus 300k.

Not a chance in the world the PC version sold so little.

Definitely more than a million, most likely closer to 2 million. Of course without hard figures it's difficult to say. It seems fairly unadventurous to say that more people bought Oblivion for both consoles combined than just for PC, but to claim that the proportion of console to PC players is 90%? I would say that is fairly ludicrous, even for an extemporaneous, off-the-cuff comment.

 

[ToxicOranges]

Hah. IT would be nice but this will not happen, or at least, not on the 360.

Sony seem ok with supporting other platforms (a la Portal 2), but Microsoft supporting the modding community? Unthinkable.
Plus, even if they give this the go ahead, it'll be

1) Exclusive to 360 and 360 ONLY. This includes PC's as well, y'all.
2) Made to have a price tag. Who cares about the wants of the consumer when they can make oodles more cash? (I point only to 1200 map packs on Call of Duty as, an example here).

OT: This won't happen, or it won't on 360.

 

[captaincabbage]

Wha!?? YES PLEASE!!

If mods like Nehrim for Oblivion are any indication, we should hopefully have some damn good extra content for our copies of Skyrim!

 

[Tdc2182]

sounds too good to be true. But really hope that happens, at any rate.

I'm with this guy.

But yet again (me being a console player and Oblivion being my favorite game ever), I at least appreciate the thought. If you can do it, please do.

I will love you even more.

 

[Wolfenbarg]

Do want. Make this a reality people.

 

[DayDark]

I somehow feel like 90% is a drastic overstatement...

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/04/10/oblivion-records-record-sales-1-7-million-and-climbing/

The game only has 1 million 360 sales and 2 million PS3 sales to date (on vgchartz anyways, which doesn't have PC data).

So by their calculations the PC version only sold 333,333 copies? Despite topping the charts at release? Despite me going to 5 game stores and having every PC copy (but one collectors I finally found) sold out?

I like that they're bringing mods to consoles, but why do they have to downplay their immense PC fanbase?

This was back in 2006, obviously numbers have risen since then, Consoles could easily be 90% of the market. the xbox version alone has sold 3.5 mio. to date. With ps3, it above 5.2 mio. (VGChartz)

 

[Darks63]

Wonder if they will ban certain mods like the nude patches and children killing patches?

 

[Risingblade]

OH skyrim I would leave my wife for you!

 

[Zydrate]

As long as we don't have to pay for every single little mod.

 

[voetballeeuw]

Holy shit yes! I'm not sure Microsoft will approve though, but maybe Sony?

 

[binvjoh]

I really hope this works out. I'm a PC gamer myself and I have no real interest in Skyrim, but letting fellow gamers on consoles take part in the awesomeness that is player-created-content sounds like a great idea.

 

[Laxman9292]

What I really want is access to the console. No more glitches leaving me incapable of finishing a quest! No more having to restart from hours ago before the glitch happened! Seriously, the mods are nice but give us the console!

 

[BlackEagle95]

Really hope it works, some of those Oblivion mods look just plain awesome.

 

[The Imp]

What I really want is access to the console. No more glitches leaving me incapable of finishing a quest! No more having to restart from hours ago before the glitch happened! Seriously, the mods are nice but give us the console!

And how are you going to type the command lines? It might work with stuff like TCL or TGM but as soon as you are trying to create an item, summon an actor or moveto you'll be begging for a keyboard.