No, my guess is that they finally fixed it. 1.4 does solve the problem more than sufficiently. So that's why they'd wait this long.

Unfortunately, Bethesda is only following this consoles' generation trend: taking the easy way out in multiplatform developing.
Valve, Codemasters, Infinity Ward, Treyarch, Bioware (check out the PS3 demo of Mass Effect 3) and so many others.

They use the xbox or the PC (it's basically the same) as leading platforms and then port to the PS3. A console that has the opposite strengths and weaknesses of those two.
A platform that bottlenecks when it comes to memory and gpu but has a multicore processor with a different architecture that overpowers the xbox and can make up for those weaknesses as long as it is used properly.
When you port the software to the PS3 you can only tweak it around. The PS3 needs to be treated separately. You have to design the software for it, not try to force the code in making simple alterations and conversions.

The ideal situation would be to have two full teams of programmers. Those who specialize on one platform and those on the other. Each team would have to make the game for their platform from scratch. They would have to be competent and know their stuff. Unfortunately that requires resources that gaming companies are not willing to provide.

The PS3 is perfectly capable of running games at least just as good as the xbox. This is apparent in the few cases where they used the PS3 as lead platform and the end result was true console parity and in rare occasions a very slight advantage. The PS3 has the best exclusive games from a technical perspective and luckily it has a lot of them. They were made specifically for it. The xbox though has the developers in it's favour due to it's developer friendly architecture.

I hope this is not the case in the next console generation. I hope that we will see true console parity in the years to come because it doesn't matter what console you own. You should be able to enjoy it as much as everybody else.

It does seem to have fixed the game for a lot of people, but you can't call it fixed until it's fixed for everyone.

No man, my game freezes last night as usual, what are you talking about? the game is still broken.... FREEZES FREEZES and MORE FREEZES....

It does seem to have fixed the game for a lot of people, but you can't call it fixed until it's fixed for everyone.

The patch has worked on the vast majority of us. There's something in your system that the patch couldn't fix. Perhaps there's just ot much or something environmentally wrong. There could also be a less common issue affecting your game that they haven't addressed. It doesn't mean that the game isn't fixed, just that you were lucky enough to find a crack (joke).

Something in my system???? my Ps3 is perfect, I've started a new game, I've reinstalled the game. Yeah probably I'm the only guy getting freezes. You're right. (sarcasm)

I know the kind of peopple like you, always saying that the game is perfect now, the patch fixes all the problems and then comes back to say... ohhh the game is broken, I'm getting lag and my game crashes everytime I play it...

If your game runs perfect, what are you doing still here? go to play it!

All 1.4 did in terms of optimization was tweak garbage collection and shrink the LOD bubble. (get on a horse and ride and the engine absolutely falls apart...still)

Many can't even tell that the IQ is getting worse and that the same texture streaming issues which still persist on the 360 are present on PS3 and PC. Skyrim is wholly developed for a platform with shared RAM and it's at the expense of the other two platforms with dedicated memory pools.

This may have been posted but to be honest I'm too lazy to look through them all:

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1218881p1.html

I must be reading that story differently to everyone else. Even before the new addition made to the link, it seemed pretty clear that he was saying they foresaw that there could be problems with the engine on the ps3, but made changes that they thought would manage these. Everyone else seems to read it as "we knew the game was broken and didn't care". I'm sure my grasp of English isn't that bad so it seems odd that I'm not seeing what everyone else is seeing.

Whether you think he's lying or not is another matter entirely of course...

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise...er...right....of course they knew, they've always known since day one, being the same engine with a new renderer thrown on...

Todd Howard, the Grey Fox and true master of the Thieves Guild, known as Bugthesda!

It seems to read that they saw the problem, thought it'd only impact a few people and then decided to fix it post release. The problem, of course, ballooned.

It doesn't say that though. It says there foresaw the problem and believed they'd made enough changes to stop it happening. Then that post-release they saw a "small percentage" of players experiencing the problems have been working to fix it since.

Like I say, whether you think that's all bull or not is up to your own point of view, but that's definitely what it says. That's how it reads to me, and there's been a clarification paragraph added since that spells it out even clearer.

That was probably just Pete Hines wearing the Grey Fox's mask.

It doesn't say that though. It says there foresaw the problem and believed they'd made enough changes to stop it happening. Then that post-release they saw a "small percentage" of players experiencing the problems have been working to fix it since.

Like I say, whether you think that's all bull or not is up to your own point of view, but that's definitely what it says. That's how it reads to me, and there's been a clarification paragraph added since that spells it out even clearer.

I'm not sure where you got the impression they thought the problems were all completely fixed before release. I think it's pretty clear from what was said that they knew there'd still be problems post-release and had plans to fix them, but simply had no idea how serious or widespread those problems would be.

They'll never admit to knowingly releasing a broken game. They knew there "could" be a problem for ps3 users. They will never say we knew people would have issues due to memory management and released the game anyway. Do you think bethesda, a lead developer, one that is known for creating great games, a studio that has been developing games for many years would not know that skyrim ps3 users would have problems due to their error? Don't you think they have the knowledge, expertise and experience to know if a situation such as memory management would or would not cause problems?

They knew. They're trying to save face by saying "could".

This has gotten some press attention:

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1218881p1.html

This has gotten some press attention:

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1218881p1.html