"We are not satisfied yet with Dawnguard’s performance on the PS3. We would like for everyone to have a chance to play Dawnguard, but we aren’t going to release it for PS3 knowing that some people’s experience in Skyrim will be worse. We do everything we can to have our content available to all; from our free updates, to user mods, to paid DLC. We’re as disappointed as our fans when that isn’t the case, but we’ll continue to push for that reality. "

http://www.bethblog.com/2012/08/02/dawnguard-ps3-update/

Well, I would rather have it delayed than messing up teh whole game. At least they are admitting it!

They're not delaying it. They're making sure the DLC is a bug itself.

I like how they do everything they can to have their content available for all: (in that sentece available for all, means not for everybody)

- Updates (1.6, 1.7 not available for PS3)

- user mods (not available for XBOX or PS3)

- overpriced DLC (not available for PS3)

That pretty much sums up available to all

Thats because us PS3 users dont exsist. Anybody that meantions the dreaded Sony or PS3 words in the Beth offices get sent to the looney bin. I bet they think Fairies & Pixies are more real than we are lol

We are trying to make it better for the PS3 folks. = We haven't even started looking at it yet; don't hold your breath we might get to it before the end of the decade.

/me predicts this will be locked. but here is a thought - if they fixed the vanilla game maybe the dlc would, i dunno, perform better?

still, who is naive enough to believe the reason its delayed is because they care about our experience?

Quite a few of us have repeatedly stated that the base coding for Skyrim on the PS3 was a quick slam over port. The game was developed using XBOX microsoft code strucures and protocols. The PS3 version is a round hole with an XBox square peg slammed in it. Bethesda DID NOT optimize the game code properly, we all know this! Any extra burdens brought on by DLC will only worsen the demands an already fragile engine, which is more or less what Bethesda is fighting with now.

As far as DLC goes we PS3 gamers were SOL from the get go. The game coding is still the same mess at it's foundations, with some cosmetic work done via patches to shore it up. Face it friends, we were sold a lemon by Bethesda. The Blog post today is about as close to an admission of failure as we are likely to see from them. They may eventually release Dawnguard for the PS3, but I suspect they're realizing that from a publicity standpoint, and a fiscal standpoint, the costs of making SKYRIM DLC run properly will exceed their returns.

I don't wish to be pessimistic, I really enjoyed the exploring the gameworld of Skyrim. But for now I'm pretty much done with the patches and so called "enhancements". Quantitatively, the improvements on the base game, as of today , are miniscule compared to what it was on 11/11/11. Often Bethesda's patches mean fixing one thing at the expense of losing or gimping something else. This mis-direction may work for some consumers, but not this one.

When and IF the game ever comes out in a GOTY edition on PS3 I'll be eager to see the reviews to determine if they've done a from the ground up re-build. Some day I'd really like to play the game as it was intended to be. But for now, Skyrim is a fatally flawed gaming experience. Out.

I could name some. But I won't as I'm lazy.

yeah, this will be locked and a moderator will post a link to the mythical "vent" thread where those Ps3 people have a voice and no one will recognize their existence

That is one oddly worded PR statement seemingly meant to somehow soften the blow of news that we already figured out weeks ago.

As we've all seen, any optimizations made by Bethesda will only delay the issue rather than resolve it so waiting around to spend $20 to further break your game is even further folly. Now if they have hired some outside help then perhaps there's a decent chance but the people which gave us a fully satisfied 0 frames per second...not so much.

Take your time, delay the problem which has gone unfixed in release after release, and then eventually plop out the results only to have the same old poor memory utilization issues creep right back in only now after x amount of hours instead of y. We've all been there before; anyone who owns Fallout 3 or New Vegas on PS3 is forever abandoned there in fact.

indeed, and its amazing how many PS3 players have popped up their with no problems...

Use this thread; http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1400801-ps3-release-for-dawnguard-2/

Also, it hasn't really been delayed, there never been a solid release date to begin with.