lol, the lag PS3 users are experiencing (while higher than 360 and PC) is still a MINORITY issue for most players.

So you make a thread complaining about something that hasn't even happened to you?

First off, 30 hours is nothing in a Bethesda game and the problems will just continue to get worse. Second, the user having to find such workarounds (which will be rendered more and more useless as saved data files grow ever larger, anyway) is not a permanent solution. If you can live with paying full price for a broken product which is blatantly inferior to its contemporary console version in framerate, problem support, and visual quality despite its respective platform being every bit as capable as that other platform, fine... but that doesn't make it acceptable.

i have a ps3 the game is fine...must be specifically your console or a bad disk possibly have you tried swapping out the disk at whatever store sold it to you before you began raging?

Most PS3 users are not experiencing these issues.

To all those saying it's fine, what are your saved data file sizes and how are you fine with a factually lower fps (average of 25 as before, dips down further at some points... all aside from the eventual issues brought about by increased saved data file sizes)?

I don't think people understand that this only occurs after the save file gets to 8+mb. So yes it doesn't affect anyone till they hit 8-11mb+ so no not everyone will have it, but they will it didn't occur till 11mb for me.

I had the Oblivion and Fallout 3 issues on PS3. It's a safe bet I'll suffer this, I'm already getting some lag.

5 times happened in the most recent 20 hours I've played. If it should be getting worse the bigger the file gets, (it's currently over 9000!! kb), then in the next 20 hours I should be experiencing more than 5 framerate issues. We'll see eventually what happens.

Generally speaking, of course I agree with you. But for me, it's not a problem. (yet)

^This. It seems that this may start happening at any point after 5mb. I haven't experienced this myself yet, but i'm only at ~4 something mb. Still, this is definitely cause for concern.

there are definitely entirely too many people crying like babies...its almost like they purposefully look for things wrong.

(not saying the guy who started his thread is) sarcastically obviously.

The file size seems to differ a bit for everyone, but I can say I miss how smoothly the game initially ran. It ran beautifully, at first... how could they let this, whatever it is (Memory Leak? Caching problem?), eventually mar the experience after doing so much work to get it seemingly running very smoothly?

Regarding the Oblivion issues...

by the time the PS3 came out Bethesda had completely finished with Oblivion both patching and DLC, at the time PS3s online content provider was a troublesome affair and would of demanded considerable code re-writes and would of taken the dev team away from other projects which at the time due to low PS3 sales and indeed low Oblivion sales was deemed a lot of work for little return (they are a business after all)

i do think that they should of fixed the bugs though which should be considered good customer service

you might be anti xbox but its worth considering that a decent PC upgrade would cost a lot more than an xbox

i have both systems so i am not biased

Then why show to all of us your petty rage at something thats not even affecting you?

My save file is just over 6 MB and the game IS very laggy now,almost unplayable, very disappointing.Good thing I picked up a PC version too.

Finding work arounds is as old as gaming itself, or should i be mad cause i had to blow in my cartridge to get it to work in my Nintendo. Also the only issues i've had with Skyrim on my PS3 have come after playing the game for 7+ hours in a row. If i turn it off and rest my ps3 for 20 mins and start it up again its fine. My save file is over 9mb.

Definitely a few minor bugs/oversights. Had to find out the hard way that by creating a new game file/character in Skyrim will wipe out your old game... Kind of seems excessive to have to create a new ps3 ID for every OTHER game file you wish to create.
I've also had a problem with freezing at the loading screens. Perhaps this is from overheating?

In all honestly though, with all the details Bethesda has put into Skyrim, I think we can cut them a little slack for the time being...
Still a great play.

I had the Oblivion and Fallout 3 issues on PS3. It's a safe bet I'll suffer this, I'm already getting some lag.

How is pointing out a problem that gets progressively worse being a cry baby? When you spend 30+ hours in a game and it get's laggy as hell. I've almost died from the frame rate drops personally and it's pretty lame. The fact that it only gets worse as you go on is why its a big problem. I could see this being game breaking if it's not fixed in a patch;

God there is so much ignorance in this thread.

I've been playing for quite a while, and i get some lag issues after about 4+ hours of solid playing, but if i reset my ps3, everything is gold again for the next 4hrs. Save files are currently at 8.8Mb. I honestly think having to reload after Lydia steps in front of a power attack after just getting up from gettin her ass kicked has cost me more time than the resetting due to lag lol.

That being said... it's irrational to assume gamesas is out to get the PS3... every platform had issues in every open concept game they put out, its the nature of the open world beast, the game is too big to play test everything... I mean come on, this is TES, not DA2 lol.

It must just be your system because I couldn't be happy with how this game plays on my ps3. I have seen some framerate drops every once in a while, but what do you expect from a humongous game that has good graphics and a ton of things to do?

Not bothering to read past page 1 of this thread, I will say this from what I've experienced with Bethesda/Oblivion/Skyrim/Fallout/etc....

Bethesda released exclusive content in oblivion to 360 that was not available on PS3, updates rarely-never come, and it can be very buggy. However, it seems as though they're getting better at it all because so far I've encountered very little bugs within Skyrim compared to Oblivion, they've issued a statement saying there is a patch in the works for all consoles (including PS3), and now that the PS3 has a lot of people playing it (When Oblivion was out there wasn't as many as there are now) I wouldn't doubt if Bethesda releases the same DLC on all systems now.

What's your savefile size?

Didn't they confirm a patch is coming to all systems "soon"? I mean soon could mean a week or a month, but the point is I am sure they are aware that people are experiencing this (especially if publications like Kotaku are reporting it).

One of my saves is right around 8mb and so far the only issues I have had are slight FPS drops now and again, but who knows if it will get worse. Does anyone know if this is worse on older PS3's or on all PS3's across the board?

I trust that Bethesda learned from their mistakes on FO and such. Plus there are issues on all systems right now. I am confident the patch will fix the texture issues on 360, the lag/quest bugs on PS3, and....all the things on the PC. Until they prove otherwise with this game, I will be patient and trust the company.