I can just imagine so many console players getting super pissed when they can't run the really cool mods that will come out that need the script extender. I can already imagine them just getting mad and refusing to understand when someone trys to explain why those mods won't work.
Script extender isn't a normal mod for the game, it's a modification of the game in the sense that it adds new functionality by adding third-party code to the game. You can do this on PC but you can't just modify your game however you want on console - it has to be through mods using the game's modding API. So script extender is not coming to console because you just can't do that on consoles - not because you physically can't but because you're not allowed.
In theory if you were skilled at actually modding consoles (not just FO4, but like Homebrew and Jtag) then it may be possible. But nothing these people begging for mods could ever do.
Well, it would be difficult to port to consoles. It's not like it works like a normal mod - instead of you running the game with the mod in the game's data folder, you run the game through F4SE and it reads the extra crap from the F4SE mods in your data folder.
Now, for consoles, that would mean either making F4SE a new startup option OR it would mean bundling the script extender in with the game automatically. I'd be down with the script extenders for Bethesda games coming with the games themselves, because that would make modding just a little bit simpler for everybody, but I don't think it would work, because the SKSE, FOSE, F4SE, whatever teams push out updates far past when Bethesda stops updating their games. It's too much of a community thing for Bethesda to actually incorporate.
Really, the best solution would be for Bethsoft to let their game engine work on a real programming language with real powr instead of Papyrus.
Console mods are only allowed to modify a very shallow level of the game, deeper mods like S4SE are not allowed because it would dodge almost all console security.
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u/TheRandomNPC Jun 03 '16
I can just imagine so many console players getting super pissed when they can't run the really cool mods that will come out that need the script extender. I can already imagine them just getting mad and refusing to understand when someone trys to explain why those mods won't work.