That sense of 'shadiness' still lingers, of course. But with a passion for both platforms, "I thought I could attempt to make a bridge between them. There's a surprisingly wide variety of Skyrim mods for Switch already - and yes, that includes a few boobs. "I've always had a fascination with the idea of modding games you aren't meant to mod," Doodlez tells me, explaining that, "There's always been a sort of disconnect between console modders and PC modders since console modding has often been sort of shady". Most of this activity currently revolves around the Skyrim NX Modding Hub, run by PC mod author and self-confessed "Nintendo Switch addict", Doodlez (obviously not his real name). Yet, in a quiet corner of the internet, an enthusiastic community of Skyrim fans has picked up Bethesda's mantle, and - with a lot of dedication, and a touch of grey-area system circumvention - has managed to establish a burgeoning mod scene on Switch, entirely of its own volition.
Twelve months later and official Skyrim mod support for the console is still nowhere to be seen. "We would love to see it happen," Bethesda's Todd Howard told Eurogamer, "but it's not something we're actively doing." When Skyrim launched on Switch last year, Bethesda was upfront about the fact it had no plans to support mods on Nintendo's machine.