Unless I'm mistaken, don't many console-only gamers cite how "everything just works" as one of the reasons for their platform choice?  Mods are complicated and I'd bet you a lot that many people have no idea what they're getting into.  Conflicts, load order, bugs that require a clean save, even trial and error to find out which mod is causing the problem, those are just some of the things that come with using mods.  It requires that you do your homework or it will bite you.  Is every 13 year old with a PS4 going to be up for that?  I highly doubt it.

If I were Sony, I'd allow mods due to popular demand.  However, on the day they went live, I'd put up strong disclaimers that put every single bit of the responsibility on Bethesda for not doing a single thing to check a mod's viability.  

It's really a very poor precedent, though, and goes counter to everything that has kept console gaming stable since the Crash.

If you say so. Perhaps I imagined PS4 console units sitting right next to XBox 1 console units at retailers.

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Just to confirm: #FarmingSimulator17 mod support on both #XboxOne AND #PS4 will be available when the game comes out.

— Farming Simulator (@farmingsim) September 12, 2016

I know i cant believe the replys in this thread about this. But why i like threads like this is it shows me whos opinion on something i could trust and who i just shouldnt listen to at all. But i find it even more amazing that some of the very same people (Karaton) who was praising mods coming to fallout a few months back as being one less reason to own a PC, are now defending Sonys choice here lol Quality control lol great excuse!.

I dont think they really understand why using this excuse is making Sony gamers look bad. Its pretty much the same thing as saying "Hey guys see xbox and PC users can have mods since they are more smart about choosing what mods to install and how to follow other user ratings. However since PS4 users are not as up to date on things like this we cant allow mods on our system without having someone to hold their hands and make sure they cant install any bad mods".

By using this excuse for Sony about having "Proper" QA on "USER" mods, not paid dlc or forced updates/patchs but Free user mods that you have the choice to install or not to install is the very same thing as saying what i said up above. The whole bases of proper user mods makes it impossible for any company to have proper QA on them and thats why its always fell back to the users and the mod makers.

And hey ya know it seems to be working very well like this for years on PC and is doing great on XB1 so whats the problem with PS4 users??.

That's a pretty bold statement. 

It is. I can't comment about the Atari situation since I didn't live it, but how does it compare to our current situation? Don't we live in a pretty much lack of quality-control situation already, and things doesn't seem to go down, but up? (as far as market sales are going around, even if they swap from platforms to platforms so much, including mobile).

And then again, even if this were to attempt against the pure essence of quality-control, in what sense does this pose a threat to anyone? They're mods. Meaning they're not part of the original, quality-tested (Bethesda games? Who am I kidding here) content. Heck, they're not officially made by the developer himself (that'd be DLC or whatever you wanna call it). Sure, there's gotta be a control in the sense that content isn't stolen or plagiarized, but ultimately it is the player the one who has the option (and chooses so) to download and install them. It's not part of the game. It won't cause any videogame crash to modify your game (heck that has been done ever since videogame's existence, where people simply modified versions of an already existing code to cause something entirely different).

It's not simple, but I'm not sure Sony's issue with this is just copyright infringment.