Thats true, people tend to think of console gamers are the simpler gamer in contrast to the PC simply because it takes less knowledge to work a console than it does a PC which requires an understanding of hardware. While this is true in part, it doesn't mean that there are not many skilled consolers out there. Similar to the Athenian and Spartan positions on war, yes the Spartans had a system to weed out the weak top ensure only the toughest Men and Women could partake in society, but that doesn't mean Athens lacked for skilled warriors too.

The way I could see it working is that every month Bethesda creates a topic and chooses the best mods suggested. The mods can get reviewed (like the indie game review boards) and then the mods could get on the marketplace for free. Since the modders don't charge for their mods to begin with.

Not even a lot of PC users read the Readme....I better not think about console users

And this is a SP game, you know, so I care little about what others think about mods (which aren't "hacks" or "cheats" btw...at least most of them. Actually, many of them makes the game much more difficult). And anyways, as I always say, nobody points you a gun in your head in order to install X mod...if you don't like it, just ignore it and go check the next one...

It's up to you to keep the game balanced and fun while using mods, not any other person' responsability (including the mod authors).

There is a really simple way to do this. This biggest problem with bringing mods to consoles is that Sony/MS want to test everything that get put on there consoles and they don't want to be responsible for them. Mods work perfectly on console, BS has confirmed this. The best way to do this:

1. MS/ Sony host the mods and add the cost into Gold/PSN+ because we pay for this anyway to get "extra" services. Could you imagine that amount of people who would pay for Gold/PSN+ just for this feature. A lot.

2. Have simple steam style, click installation.

3. Place an agreement before you can download mods that states: Sony/MS/ & BS offer no support for this service and that they have zero responsibility for the mods and that each user is using the mods at there own risk to legally not make them responsible if mods mess up your system.

4. Mods download to hard-drive were we have a mod menu in the game to select which mods we want to use.

5. Profit

So simple an idiot could do it. (not really/ jk)

Really? I don't see any "profit/advantage for mod authors" there. Not even "asking them for permission". We're the ones who actually do them, btw.

Apart from that, having in mind the draconic control they love to have over their stuff, I doubt they'll ever include such a lax agreement ever. Not them.

1. BS owns the rights, which you agree to by making mods so they don't have to ask.
2. As someone who had done modding and has been a mod user for years, modders normally create mods to better the community and the game. If it is suddenly an issue because console user get it then quite frankly your modding for the wrong reasons.

Consoles are "slowly" becoming open platforms, whether MS/Sony like it or not. It's inevitable when developers/publishers are pushing for it to happen.

It's just some lip-service from Todd. Having in mind all the "cons" console modding has, it'll likely never happen.

AusGamers: Obviously the PC community really enjoys that a lot, but have you thought about giving that level of access to the consoles?

Todd: I have yeah. 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?”.

The good news is that those things have started to happen with games like Forza 3 and sharing all your car stuff or Rock Band’s a really good example, where you can make your own tracks where you’re authoring them somewhere else then you’re uploading them to the 360.

There are still a lot of issues to solve with... because these aren’t instances like a song or a car you know, you could download a mod that destroys your game and we can’t have that. So we’re still... 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.

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.

AusGamers: Is there any opportunity going forward to actually take some of the PC mod stuff and port that to console for console players?

Todd: 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.

Actually, what Todd has said is concerning bringing mods to the consoles.

Not modding on the consoles.

All the mods are made on a pc. Mods can be used on the consoles now, if you have the dev kit needed. Talking about alternative methods of getting mods on consoles now is not a good idea, as it breaks the eula for the consoles, so don't do that. The original interview: http://www.ausgamers.com/features/read/3076322

1. Bethesda may own the rights, but I could happily stop making mods, or publishing them, or either publish them via private ways. If some more would do that, that'd mean the modding community would start tearing itself apart.

2. Can you say for certain you don't care M$/$ony making even more money out of your work? If so, it's your decision. But not the decision of every modder out there. Myself included.

Never can get enough of this attitude.

same here plan on getting for 360 as well for the ps3 i dont mind the 30 day wait. by then i will probably beat it for the xbox

I understand the problem with allowing modding on xbox but beth could easily take the top ten mods from a reputable site like nexus, test them thoroughly, and then add them to consoles via dlc or patches

todd talks out his toot though, he did it at last years e3 with things about skyrim and now he did it again