If you feel that way about console gaming why are you in this thread? Some of us can't use PC so your advice is useless anyway. I have a PC more than capable of running Skyrim but it doesn't help me much. It is irritating when people think that buying a good enough PC will fix all our problems when that isn't true.
To tell people to buy cheap PC and play this game.
And consoles are junk, worthless hardware. Because of this games devolve, especially open world games like Skyrim.
As a modder i saw many solutions implemented in this game which are so bad. And this is because of consoles.
People expect all elements in games to be better, but on the other side they buy games for some pre-flood platforms! Unbelievable!
Another major part of the problem is the engine: it can still trace its roots all the way back to 2001 and the NetImmerse technology that powered Morrowind. Over the years, Bethesda has added and added and added to that codebase but never bothered really to optimize. The result is now, in 2012, we have a game running on a highly dated and horrendously bloated codebase which cannot garbage-collect to save its life. This, in turn, results in bloated saves and more and more needing to be loaded to memory the longer you play. The PC version, like the PS3 version, had memory problems early on, but Bethesda was able to hide the issue on the PC by making the en...
Engine can be tweaked to work a little bit better. But nobody likes to develop for PS3.
People like John Carmack or Gabe Nevel has said this long ago.