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"The simplest things have very specific requirements, and each one is going to be its own undertaking" - Pete Hines "Stuff like that has to be solved it might be small, but it's important," Hines said. What happens if someone downloaded a mod that broke their game? That issue, and others, must be sorted out before mods can ever work on console. " not big fans of, 'Oh yeah, sure, put whatever files on here you want.' So that's a pretty big thing to them," Hines said. Hines pointed out that consoles are often very closed systems, in part because the controlling companies are concerned about security issues, among other things. "The difficulty is there is no real system in place right now today that allows for it in the way we're talking about it, which is you're on a PC, you're making all this stuff on a PC you're not just building a new level, you're making massive, wholesale changes to a game." "It's something that has been after, and hounding folks for, not just Microsoft, but everybody, for a while now," Hines went on to say about bringing PC mods to console. "They had some pretty good ideas about how to make something like this work." "Why Microsoft? They are a company that is in both of those spaces they're heavily in the PC space they're heavily in the console space," Hines said. He also said Microsoft had some interesting ideas about how to solve some of the problems associated with bringing PC mods to console. Speaking with GameSpot today at E3 2015, Bethesda marketing executive Pete Hines said Microsoft's history on PC helped tip the scales. Some fans might be wondering why Bethesda aligned with Microsoft instead of Sony, and now Bethesda explained.

This week at E3, Bethesda officially announced a potentially exciting new feature where Fallout 4's PC mods will be playable on console, starting with Xbox One before coming to PlayStation 4 later.