Like past Elder Scrolls titles, Bethesda is on with full support for mods in the PC version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. According to executive producer Todd Howard, the PC-created mods for Skyrim “works on all consoles”, but in order to make it to retail, they need to “find a way” to get the feature approved by first-parties.
“It works on all the consoles,” Howard told Edge during a preview event in Utah, last week. “As far as the 360 and PS3, right now there’s not an avenue for us to make that available, but we’d very much like to find a way. We have talked to Microsoft and Sony, and so there’s a chance it might happen one day, [but] I don’t see it happening for release.
“We’d like to see it happen, because it works, it’s how we made the game. I think it’s something really cool about what we do, but 90 per cent of our audience is on the consoles, so 90 per cent of our audience can’t even see this thing. So if we can solve that we’d like to.”
Judging by history, we might see it happen on PlayStation 3. With Steam built into Portal 2, PC mods available for Unreal Tournament III, and MMOs alive on the console, I see no reason for Sony to be open about the subject.
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is in stores for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC on November 11, 2011.