Maybe its karma should have got a v8.

Will I have had only 3 freezes/crashes with the game all done within 1-2 weeks apart each time. But I also put the game down when I see it lagging too much so I dont risk it freezing, I do remember putting New Vegas up because of the problems it had. What happen there is I never touched the game again because I forgot about, ended up selling it to a friend. We never expect to buy a faulty product but there are cases of people not having problems but like many on this area of the forums I doubt Q/A didnt see this, so assuming they saw the problems they choose to do nothing. With Bethesda winning GOTY for Skyrim I dont know what to think about the problem anymore, but with reading so many threads about peoples PS3 and Skyrim I find myself wondering if I should stop playing Skyrim before something does go wrong with my PS3. I mean I seen people in this section do exactly that for safe measures even if they werent having problems. But like I said previously Id like to see the main quest through because if I put it down like I did New Vegas, I problay will end up forgetting about it.

It's possible that Skyrim taxes the PS3's hardware a bit more than some games perhaps? I dont know. If that were the case, it would speed the deterioration of your HDD and perhaps other components. Although, hardware (namely HDDs) will eventually fail no matter what. Whether it was the game's fault or simply a coincidence, that still svcks

How old is your PS3?

On a side note; The PS3 is drastically underpowered for modern games (not necessarily in processor power but in RAM). The fact that only 256MB of onboard ram can be dedicated to graphics is absurd. From all that I have read/heard, that is likely the root cause of most issues PS3 owners are having with Skyrim. 256MB system / 256MB graphics. Why Sony decided that a divided memory pool was a great idea, we'll never know, but with only 256MB VRAM there is likely a helluva lot of HDD access going on. Somebody please correct me if I'm mistaken.

Google search this, it's a problem others have had. There's even pics.

I'm sure just as many consoles "broke" while playing Uncharted 3, Batman, pretty much every game. The game in the console may/may not have anything to do with it.

Have you got any sort of theory as to how this could even technically be possible? I'm just saying, normally to establish causality you need some sort of "physically possible" explanation.

4 months old, 320gb slim model. I just don't understand how something like this can happen on only one game. Previous games I never experienced any type of freezing or lag similar to that of Skyrim. Real unbelievable situation going on here.

Too many BioWare and Blizzard trolls on these forums.

Uhhh.... next please.

-Well over 100 hrs. of game play on PS3.
-No problems so far.
-Definitely not going to stop.

It should still be under warranty. Being that new, it probably came with a defective HDD and just took a little time to finally manifest. Don't be so quick to blame the game.

Oh, you just wait until you log out 150 hours, or create an alt character.

I'm trying to warn others as well. But go ahead, roll the dice.

You didn't answer the question. Usually when a game crashes and the system screws up all your data, that's because of the system, not the game. Maybe the game crashed, maybe it didn't, either way the HDD was messed up by Sony's hardware or OS, not by Skyrim.

Unless you have a reason to think otherwise, that is.

I'm not the only one experiencing these problems. I highly doubt my HD was defective as i've played many games on this console previous to getting Skyrim and have had no problems whatsoever.

Others have reported their HDD getting blown out that have had their systems 6 months, a year even. It doesn't matter.

As I said in my previous post:


Makes me think otherwise pretty much. Absolutely 0 problems, and then I play Skyrim and my PS3 gets BLOWN OUT..... Cmon now.

The 100 hrs. is just my main guy. I've also had multiple people play, so there's somewhere between 7-8 different characters on my PS3 right now.

I've been extremely lucky so far I guess, I've seen so many posts about people that can't play anymore, but my game is completely fine.

I understand your concern, but what's most likely happened is that your PS3 bricked on you while you were playing Skyrim. (read: your hardware failure caused Skyrim to crash, not the other way round.) Regardless of whether or not "other people" are reporting the same thing, it is far more likely a hardware problem than anything to do with a game. The PS3 is designed to handle a game crashing. Games don't have enough access to the HDD to totally corrupt it.

When cooler heads prevail, you might realize that it's really quite difficult to imagine a scenario where the game itself is responsible for causing an HDD, sony or otherwise, to totally fail. You might want to contact Sony, just in case.

Besides, your system appears to still be under warranty. Ask them if it was Skyrim and see what they say. Most companies are quick to point the blame finger, but I doubt Sony will in this case.

So in short, Skyrim is responsible for my hardware failing, correct?

Appreciate the thought-out postings.

No? Did you read what I said? I said your hardware failing is responsible for Skyrim crashing. Not the other way around. Call Sony and ask them.
Edit: I see how that was confusing. Fixed.

Oh that's swell. The op's isn't and neither is his ps3, so he's here posting about it to inform others about what happened to his hardware. What are you doing here?

I think he is saying that you just happened to be playing Skyrim when the HDD crapped out. It sounds like it could be a faulty HDD or something, so I second what Eabee says.

How could my hardware be failing when every other game I play(ed) runs completely fine? Everything but Skyrim? This is a coincidence that my hardware mysteriously decided to fail when I purchased and installed Skyrim????

Replying to his post, don't be "A jerk".

If it's going to fail, it's likely going to fail while you are playing something, right? You just happened to be playing Skyrim when the HDD failed. Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying. The fact that you've played other games doesn't really matter very much. The HDD obviously wasn't corrupt straight from the factory, or they would have replaced it there.

The HDD was working fine for a few months, then failed while you were playing Skyrim. That's what the scenario usually looks like when hardware fails. Again, you can call Sony and ask them. Don't take my word for it.

I'm just saying that's the most likely scenario, given how extremely unusual it is to figure how a game could possibly cause your HDD to corrupt itself.

I dont understand some of these posts. Is it normal for ps3 to just up and stop working after a few months like the OP's? I've never heard about that before. This game is freezing his system repeatedly which I'd assume isn't good for it. So it seems only natural that the game would be a contributing factor to a new system breaking so early if no other games are causing any problems whatsoever.