That sounds unlikely. They spent quite a bit of time and money on this DLC, they're not going to see whether it 'succeeds' on 360 and just throw it away otherwise. It will be released. They've spent money making it, they want to make that money back. Limiting themselves to selling it on one platform for no reason whatsoever (since the exclusivity deal will be over) makes no sense, because they're guaranteed to make more money by bringing it out on PC and PS3 as well.

They'll probably release it as soon as they can after the exclusivity deal, it's in their own best interest. The only reason for a longer delay I can think of is if they want to deal with some bugs first, I can't think of there being any other advantage to them. As others have said, it could be that they're not allowed to mention when the PS3/PC version is coming out as part of their agreement with Microsoft, for as long as the exclusivity deal lasts.


Disclaimer: I don't work for Bethesda and have no inside information etc. etc.

Past track records go against a 26 July release infact sept seems more in line with their track record of fallout stuff, ofcourse I hope it is July as a pc player I feel left out immensely

Really hoping for a July or early August release. May not get it if it comes in September.

3 days remain until the exclusive period is over.

Anyone else been doing a majora's mask-style countdown in your head? Picture the moon's face as the rage of the other PC and PS3 players if Bethesda's still silent or if the release is way off.

Dawn of the 27th day. 3 days remain.

Exactly, I don't expect to see it until late August or early September

They'd sell more copies of Diablo by releasing it on 360 too, but they havent done that either (yet), and Diablo isnt exactly a game that pushes the boundaries.
I do agree that in all probability, Dawnguard will make it to PC and PS3 at some point. I'm also saying though that they've left themselves an option not to, if they need it.
For all we know, that might be because Zenimax dont want to push more funding at Beth to do it, and instead favour spending money on getting TES:O out.
Yes, Dawnguard will sell on the PC and PS3, but whether it sells enough to make back the cost on supporting it, patching it etc is another matter.

Another thing they could conceivably do is just wait until the end of the DLC cycle and put it all out then in one block for PC and/or PS3.

Either way though, I guess we'll hear something on 27 July.

Why would Blizzard subject themselves to the consoles online only network when they have Battle.net? Diablo 3 sold more copies on PC than Skyrim across 3 platforms. Shows there is a PC market, but it seems Bethesda is going the console route.

Doesn't really matter to me, as I'm not buying Dawnguard until some nice mods come out for it. Also, I'm surprised to see Blizzard and Bethesda in the same sentence. Bethesda is not in the same league as Blizzard.

Actually, according to the Force Feed on Youtube, Diablo 3 has been something of a flop. I'm not sure why, but the gameplay appears to be compromised in multiple ways.

Haven't bought it myself and don't intend to - it looks like D2 with a graphics upgrade. La-dee-da.

I remember I had the same reaction when comparing D2 and Oblivion. It was obvious that Oblivion was vastly more immersive, entertaining and gripping. I remember spending hours, even days, just..............walking around, and enjoying every minute of the scenery and the terrain.

That is massively inaccurate actually. In the first week, Diablo sold 6.3 million copies. Skyrim sold 7 million in its first week.
Diablo sold more ON PC.
Time will tell how many sales it will continue to generate, but I doubt it'll even get close to equalling Skyrim.

At $60 a pop, Bethesda has probably made very close to $1B on this game. That's a colossal achievement.

It is. But, my respect for Bethesda dropped to almost nothing when Skyrim was released with tons of bugs, most of which it still has, and for other reasons, but that one is the main one. When I talk about Blizzard being in a higher league, I'm talking about the quality of the game. Blizzard releases games in a much better state than Bethesda, which really does count.

D3 is, to be honest, is out of date, not by a little but a LOT! What adds insult to injury is the way it's been set up, the whole online only decision is a lesson in how to make the single player aspect of a game fail. It looks and feels like D2.5 and to be honest the graphics aren't anything to write home about. It took them 10 years or so to come up with a 10 year old game, that takes some doing, but that's just my opinion, I believe it sold on its predecessors success, not on merit.

Skyrim in comparison to Oblivion was unbelievable, and Oblivion was amazing when it was released. Bethesda are increadable developers regarding the breadth and scope of their games, no other company even comes close to what they attempt with the likes of Fallout 3 and the TES series. The only problem as I see it is the management deciding to release their games in such buggy unpolished states. A diamond in the rough is great but it's so much better, and worth more when cut and polished.

Bethesda seem to be masochistic in their decision making a lot of the time, and bad decisions can be expensive if you continuously make them.

Wrong. They used to do that. They shoudln't have merged with Activision, their quality is not the same anymore ( And please don't understand that as the typical really devoted fan publisher bashing, but a developer with such a reputation like Blizz was clearly going to suffer from publishers kicking their butts). Best example is D3 actually I could play Skyrim from the Getgo after release whereas for D3 (which for me as a Diablo 2 fan was a massive dissapointmen. stopped playing after 2 weeks) I couldn't paly the first 3 days at all because the servers wouldn't allow it. The days after that I could play for an hour or so if I was lucky. But seriously the biggest disappointment was the gameplay, I mean after all taht development time and all their experience I was expecting something that would keep me playing for month/years...

As a ps3 Skyrim player, I think the patches pretty much fixed all that. :/

But back on topic; Yeah, we're not getting Dawnguard. ;l Most likely not Hearthfire either.

I have a problem with being too emotionally attached to things, and I get very upset when I things don't go right. i.e with Dawnguard since I'm really hoping it'll be release sooner rather than later. But in all, I am realising that I am being stupid, and know that it will come out.

Sure it may not be a perfect DLC but adding some interesting bits onto an already great game make the game that much sweeter, and I'm sure bethesda will patch some bugs that crop up in dawnguard after it's being released to PS3 and PC as they'll want to have a full list of bugs acorss the consoles (can I call a PC a console?) well gaming platforms and will try and strike the bugs at their source and fix it for all.

Atleast that what it seems they've been doing with the vanilla skyrim

One thing I have noticed however, is that pre Dawnguard. Werewolves get 100+ health (aswell as Stamina) with dawnguard it's only 50 health (still 100 stamina), so I am hoping Bethesda change it back to 100 so fully upgraded we can have an extra 200 health and stamina.

Sorry if I went off topic.

We will be getting Dawnguard not sure when but we will be. Why? Because Bethesda want our money .

Which in the long run I'm happy to give

Also: WOW, I can't believe an entire month has alrwady passed...

Are you forgetting Oblivion? The Orrery, horse armor, and other crap that could have been sold on PSN

Patch 1.7 is now in beta and available on Steam. 1.7 will also include all the features of 1.6 for PS3.

Dawnguard must be soon...

if they dont release the dawnguard this july i'm grabbing the prototype,dark soul and darksiders 2 best game ever i wont bother in dawnguard expansion anymore since it has bug

Are our Skyrims supposed to update on Steam, then?

You have to check something to download the beta. It's not automatic like normal patches.

I just looked at the 1.7 patch, and pathetic is too nice of a word to describe it. Over a month of no support, and there are around seven or eight fixes? Wow, just wow.