Two more of my friends are mentioning their PS3's died after playing Skyrim for multiple hours. At first I thought it could just be coincidental, but now I'm not too sure. In my own experience, when my save file reached 12 MB I couldn't exit the game at all properly anymore. The system would reset entirely and would make those PS3 beeping system sounds, even if I went PS Button > Quit Game. Upon restart it would say the system has encountered an error. So I reverted back to a 9 MB save and it doesn't do it anymore.

Just a heads up in case people's PS3's act funny after their save gets bigger.

Thanks for the heads up! Glad I didn't desperately try to get any amount of enjoyment out of the game after experiencing the problems.

No problem. Just be careful with the game, guys. It could break your PS3, and Bethesda won't care. You'll be out $200+ for a new one, and that would not be a fun day.

I don't see how a game can break your PS3 indefinitely... Chances are your friends PS3's were on the way out anyway, and then Skyrim's awesomeness was just like..

"IMAFIRINMALAZOR!!!!!!!!"

lol could be a ps3 assassination plot planned by Microsoft who payed off bethesda. Resistance is futile!

Considering that there were over 500k copies sold in NA for the PS3 I'm going with this being coincidence. Otherwise the number of failing consoles would be massive, especially if you take into account that there are a lot of people out there that don't dust out/clean their PS3s at all.

I know lot of people wont believe a game can cause a ps3 to get broken, but if a game forces too much stress to memory/cpu and constant writing to hard drive there is a small chance the ps3 cant handle it gets way too warm and either shuts itself down or, when the stress peak is too high it could damage components.

Crashes dont only occur because of faulty engine coding, it can also crash due to overheating (especially when its older or collected a lot of dust).

Well I am careful, I sometimes have a fan blowing on my ps3 to keep it cool. Seems to work because I feel the PS3 every so often to make sure it aint getting too hot and I am really into the game and would like to continue playing it lol. But I have noticed Skyrim lags when the PS3 is hot and also if the game starts jumping, just save and quit by continuing to push through it your asking for something bad to happen with your ps3. My 360 died with The Force Unleashed, I blamed the game at first but it truly didnt make sense and Microsoft not really knowing how to fix the problem at that time told me it wasnt the game.

It can't be overheating... this game barely makes my PS3's fans sweat.

Did your friends get so raged off with the games bugs that they assassinated thier consoles ?

More likely than this game in particular causing a failure by stressing the hardware to breaking point, I'd suspect Sony's product testing was far more comprehensive than the effort Beth put into the PS3 version of Skyrim.

We paid 60$ so that the game could kill our PS3. funny isn't it ?
Bethesda do not care about PS3 players, they even gave the development of the game on PS3 for the new recruits so they could learn. People WE are test subjects for Bethesda, nothing more.
''improved performance for long-term play'' Wtf does that mean ? It do not say that the patch will fix the lags, and it won't.

Correlation does not imply causation. People have said this about GTA IV, Fallout 3, MW2, and a host of others. Just because you were playing Skyrim when your PS3 died does not mean it was Skyrim's fault. Consoles were not built to last forever. Some will break down after a couple of years (or less if your unlucky), while others may last a lot longer.

Yes and as a newly released game is most likely to be in the drive at the time it is the likely suspect for blame.

I am not gonna' say that Skyrim broke some PS3s... innocent 'till proof. Many things could have done that. Yet, software can indeed break hardware. Even new hardware. Anyone that says it can't, does not know enough to make that claim.
I on the other hand, can prove, that software can indeed break hardware in many ways. Depending on the hardware, software can even blow up batteries... and of course, rewrite, or corrupt firmware.

It is also true, that certain software, can rapidly wear out old hardware; or quickly shorten the life of new hardware.
Again... there are also many reasons outside of software, that could have ushered in the end of his friends hardware. But none of us know for certain...

Not a chance.


The only problem is the freezing of a game and if you don't do the safe power down. If you turn the gizmo off with the power switch, you could harm your ps3, but other than that, not likely. Could also be heat related and I guess if you are lame you could blame that on a graphic intense game like this, but it's more because you don't give your machine enough air to breath or you live in a dust bowl.

The game will NOT cause system damage. Stop trying to scare people away from the game.

Hey, you're that troll from before. Well, there is no proof the game can break the system, but there's no proof it can't. So far there are many cases of this happening, and it's happened enough times to raise an eyebrow.

I wouldn't be surprised if the memory leak escalates to be so severe that it cripples the PS3 when it tries to play the game. If the memory leak bogs down the game exponentially the more you play it, then at some point something has to break. In this case, it's probably going to be the hardware trying to run the game, i.e. your PS3.



Memory leak leaked memory all over your PS3 and now it ironically forgot how to work.

Yes and you are that guy from before trying to tell everyone not to play the game, first because it will lag and frustrate you (not might mind you, but will), and now because it will destroy your system.

Get real.

The internet is full of wankers that blame whatever game they are playing when their sysem wears out. Usually because of heat damage from poor circulation or just plain old bad luck. Computers (yes even consoles are computers) wear out. Fact o life.


Look on the software/hardware issues thread of any big game forum and you are going to find goofballs claiming the game killed their ps3 or xbox.


When the game freezes, it's not trying to do anything anymore. Just power down with the front panel, not the back switch and you will be fine.

I was playing mine for soo long that it caught on fire and blew up and in the midst off all that my dog caught a piece of shrapnel from the disc itself and lost an eye Do you think Bethesda will comp my vet bill? The saddest part of all of this is that gold old Roy loved Skyrim so much and now he wont get to enjoy the beauty it beholds no longer.

i like how this guy thinks.

and it aint trollin if his point is the truth.

At least I bothered to provide evidence and thousands of gamers are backing up the claim (about the first issue). Trolls like you need a warning from the moderators.

Take a tip from the forum officials.

"If you are not having these issues- don't bother to post. It's great if your game is running fine. A lot of people experiencing problems don't give a damn about your game. Got it?"

You aren't supporting the claim... do you not understand? The claim is the game IS broken and you WILL have lag problems if you play it (about the first claim). There ARE people playing the game just fine, without problems. This makes your claim false! Yes, the game is bugged and has problems that will affect players. However, never will all of the bugs affect all of the players. The game is not broken, it is bugged. It may not work for you, it works for me.

I claim the game is broken for many, not all, as some are obviously playing without issues. In another thread you just agreed the game is broken for some as well. Again, if you are not having problems with the game, kindly stop stepping on the people who are.