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Sep 01, 2011 - 12:07 pm

The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim: Xbox exclusive content alienates PS3 fans

Nobody likes feeling left out. This is basic human nature. However, one of the most effective marketing approaches is to make a small group of people feel exclusive or appeal to the human desire for exclusivity. This is the dilemma Bethesda Softworks, the developer of The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim, finds itself in. When it announced that Xbox 360 users will be the first to get access to DLC content for
The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim, PS3 users felt left out. Bethesda should have known better – it should have seen this coming. It is not like we haven’t seen this before.

Whenever a publisher announces content which are to be released on one console platform earlier or exclusive content for a specific console, console rivalry between PS3 and xbox 360 fans inevitably flare up. Maybe if Skyrim wasn’t such a desired and anticipated game, PS3 fans’ feathers wouldn’t be as ruffled. However, given that The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim is one of the most heavily anticipated titles of the year, many Playstation fans are feeling left out. This seeming Xbox 360 favoritism has provoked a few fans to start a petition at PSU for PS3 fans to boycott The Elder Scrolls 5 – Skyrim. Ouch. Not exactly the reaction Bethesda’s marketing team wanted to produce.

Screenshot of The Elder Scrolls 5 - Skyrim (Credit: Bethesda Softworks)

Screenshot of The Elder Scrolls 5 - Skyrim (Credit: Bethesda Softworks)

If I were Bethesda’s marketing manager, I’d get on the phone now and get the marketing team together and strategize how we can turn this to our advantage. Given the stakes involved, we’d want to soothe frayed nerves while riding the buzz this generates. Turn the sentiment of “boycott Skyrim” to “Bethesda cares for all fans.” With every crisis, comes opportunity. Bethesda needs to move quickly though since hesitation might bring about a branding/public relations meltdown.

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  • Mornelithe

    Indeed, if I ever get Skyrim, it won’t be until the ‘ultimate’ edition comes out, with all DLC on-disc. However, I’ve never played the timed exclusivity game with any developer (ps3 or 360), so this isn’t a new thing for me.

  • TSOJaybird

    Is it really that big of a deal for companies to do this? Do the payments from the console makers really make up for the lost sales to those alienated? I am not even considering the boycott which is a farce to begin with. How about those who wait the extra time only to be sucked into the next game and never come back to the DLC for the game in question? What happens when they don’t? They may sell the game or give it to someone else and that is more lost revenue. The longer a publisher can make a game stick the better. That means more new copies sold. The exclusivity arrangements must be huge.

  • dan

    Totally agree, as a ps3 user I do feel alienated. Maybe Bethesda have something in the pipeline?. A psn exclusive armour or weapon would suffice!. Anything has to be better than being left in the dark.

    • jango

      You know alot of ps3 games get exclusives that never release on the xbox 360 and ps3 owners only have to wait about 30 days for the Skyrim dlc. Is it really that hard to wait?

  • Mr. Gamer

    PS3 owners are not being left out they will eventually get all of the DLC as it is just a timed exclusive. The latest Call of Duty games also had timed exclusive DLC in which the PS3 owners had to wait a month after Xbox360 owners. While i understand that waiting an extra month may not be ideal PS3 owners can be satisfied in knowing that they will get the exact same content as Xbox360 owners.

  • Alex

    Are ps3 fans serious man they got ff all this years and all we have are DLC first thats all this is why ps3 is sucking ass since the release of the ps3 and all the psp shit i really feel bad for those idiot!

  • Mr Shawn

    OMG Cry me a effin river. Wah I feel alienated because the xbox users are going to get the expansion before me…wah wah. How pathetic you PS3 users are to complain about something like this. Bethesda wants to make their money just like Sony does…so if Microsoft is willing to pay them for exclusive DLC time then let the dummies do it. Its not like it is exclusive content ONLY to be released on xbox…it just means you have to wait longer. So in my opinion microsoft is wasting their money and we should all get a laugh at that. I am a xbox owner and I am laughing at microsofts stupidity.

  • DarthDiggler

    That’s OK let Xbox get their Horse Armor first! LOL

    It will be a cold day in hell before they are playing God Of War 3, Killzone, Resistance, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper, Uncharted, (shall I go on?)…

    On their Xbox. :) Let MS blow their money on stupid shit like this. I could care less. More money they spend on this crap means less money for full exclusive games. Which is where they are really hurting, this is a move of desperation.

    • John

      Crackdown, Dead Rising, Fable 2, Forza, Gears Of War, Halo, Ninja Gaiden 2, PGR, Too Human… Shall I go on?. Until you start paying for an online service, you don’t have the right to bitch about lack of content. I’ve lost count of how many times PSN has been hacked now so instead of crying at other companies and developers, take a good look at the people who made your console and get off your fucking fan-boy throne.
      BTW can’t wait for Skyrim :D (and the early DLC which Xbox users PAY for).

      • Adam

        You lost count at 3…says a lot about your intelligence doesn’t it?

      • smarterthenyou

        yeahhhh cos you dont sound like a fanboy atall … hahaha

        i have xbox , ps3, a high end desktop and laptop and i still prefer ps3

        oh plus the fact its free to game online … paha

      • smarterthenyou

        ahhhhh dontcha just loveeee FREEE ONLINE gaming HMMMMM ?
        hahahaha

        • smarterthenyou

          im less concerned on crappy dlc , the ps3 community would of appreciated some fucking gameplay footage tho… good goin bethesda

      • smarterthenyou

        this guy ^^^ sounds soooo sore about having to pay for xbox live hahaha

        and that is why i love ps3 :D

      • Otis

        “Crackdown, Dead Rising, Fable 2, Forza, Gears Of War, Halo, Ninja Gaiden 2, PGR, Too Human… Shall I go on?. Until you start paying for an online service, you don’t have the right to bitch about lack of content. I’ve lost count of how many times PSN has been hacked now so instead of crying at other companies and developers, take a good look at the people who made your console and get off your fucking fan-boy throne.
        BTW can’t wait for Skyrim (and the early DLC which Xbox users PAY for).”
        @john
        except for gears and halo maybe ninja those games suck… why would you ever make those your fighting arguments. I own a ps3, xbox 360, and personal gaming computer. You just made yourself look like a fucking retard. Did you know that halo 2,3,Reach (fuck odst) exist. Wtf is wrong with you?
        Also Psn has been hacked once it was a mistake yea but wtf does that have to do with dumbasses paying for their internet twice and getting exclusive rights? I canceled my live account i just play story games on xbox. Who would ever be stupid enough to pay for their internet twice every month. Thats just flat out retarded. Its dumbasses like you that allow microsoft to charge 60 bucks a year for something that should be free. Way to go john typical head up your ass!

  • Akatosh

    Dry your eyes! Does it really matter who gets it first?

  • angelo

    I actually went to gamestop and canceled preorder on Skirim AND Rage…I don’t care if boycott doesnt affect them, but they will never get another penny from me…so many other good games to play anyways

    • KingOfArcadia

      Oh boo-hoo. You sure are sticking it to the man there! I imagine some Bethesda bigwigs are heartbroken knowing that they won’t be seeing your $120, I mean how are they going to feed their kids?

  • Elias

    They should fire the f***ing marketing teams and start having some f***ing standard with the people they hire. I mean how incompetent can you be? You don’t want to favor one platform over the others, indeed it ain’t worth getting boycotts for, people will buy it for whatever console they use as their primary one. There is no positive side to this, none whatsoever. Except for some idiot **** at microsoft or sony to be able to say “this is the platform to play w/e on”.

    But let’s face it the gaming industry has turned into hollywood and people are getting dumber by the day. So enjoy the dark ages of the information age.

    • smarterthenyou

      i have to say i disagree , i think boycotting them is the only way theyl learn , sucks to say but im actually considering downloading the pirated version and sayin ” HEY SCREW YOU BETHESDA , LICK MY BALLS”

      • smarterthenyou

        no gameplay footage of any other platform …. is frankly a bit shockin , MS obviously paid them off lol

        im gonna rip a pc copy sorry bethesda but you earned it .

  • LarryL

    I’m a PS3 gamer and I’m not bothered by this at all. Skyrim itself is a HUGE game, so 360 getting a DLC pack 30 days before me, doesn’t affect me at all. Plus I get an extra month that I don’t have to spend $15 or however much the first DLC costs. By the time that first DLC comes out on 360, I probably won’t even be 1/3 of the way through my first playthrough. And I likely wouldn’t even buy the DLC until I start my 2nd run anyway.

    I don’t see why PS3 gamers would even be upset about this, and I don’t think many are. I think alot of people complaining or making a big deal about this are 360 fanboys who think this is the greatest news ever LOL. For this kind of game, it hardly matters because they are so huge. It’s not like CoD where those games are the same thing over and over, so getting new maps ASAP would be more important to get upset about. In a game like Skyrim you won’t even notice you don’t have the DLC for 30 days since DLC is typically a string of quests.

    The delay of a DLC pack doesn’t bother me even slightly.

  • Steven

    This had to be expected, Microsoft have more money to dish out and are always buying Exclusive DLC or Time Exclusive DLC.

    Its not Favouritism, its a marketing decision; Bethesda will have made a pretty penny by selling this content to Microsoft and will still be able to release it for the Playstation at a later date therefore making the most out of their DLC.

    If it bothers you that much then get an xbox so that you can get this content too. Boycotting the Game isnt going to help your case, if there is less sales on a certain system then the publishers or developers are going to focus on the opposite system.

    • smarterthenyou

      its cos microsoft think that throwing there cash at dlc makes them great wen in reality it dosnt … i prefer the ps3 exclusive games to the xbox s***e

      we get works of art such as uncharted , or god of war

      if im not mistakened id say that MS is compensating because the xbox exclusives kinda suck , gears is the best exclusive they have

  • Jesse

    Wow… Cry me a Fnk river! You don’t have to wait a month to play the game. It’s a business decision nothing more!

  • randy:)cartman

    Bethesda doesn’t care about people angry about this sorry to say. Microsoft gave them a lot of money to release dlc first to xbox. It’s already like this for many games like CoD. If someone wants this game to play and doesn’t get it because a dlc is going to come out a month later than the xbox then your just being ridiculous lol. That is just a selfish reason do not buy a game. I can understand you being upset though. If your really that angry and pissed off buy a 360. You can get them refurbed for 100 bucks. Most games are made for 360 anyways and ported to ps3 so games look better on 360 anyways. You would benefit greatly doing so and would open up more choices for you which is better for you. You could play games exclusive to 360 like halo and gears of war which is amazing and many more. If your a ps3 fanboy and refuse to get a 360 then that’s just your own stubborn selfish fault no one else’s. I always favored Sony and first bought a ps3. I later bought a 360 and now I never use my ps3 anymore. I spent 600 for it now mine is worth prob 100 bucks and i can’t sell it. I wish i never even bought it. I basically bought a 600 dollar blu ray player lol. That’s about all its good for now. 360 !

    • smarterthenyou

      the ports are usually identical haha! you are sucha fanboy , i have both but for example i play red dead on xbox and ps3 , ps3s rez has greater clarity and xbox is dumbed down with motion bluring ….

  • Buy an XBox360

    Buy an XBox360… simple really.

  • AdamJensen

    Screw Bethesda. I’ve gathered usually 10-15 ppl in RL to boycott games before then turn around later on and by them used on gamestop and not bother with any DLC, this time will be no different. I was considering getting Skyrim new day 1, now it’s down to used (dev gets no money yay) and no DLC. Seriously gamers have to unite and make it felt to these companies that do this crap.

  • Megatron

    I’m a ps3 user, and I’m not so worried. The exclusivity of xbox is like 2 months before everyone else. I’ll probably be too busy playing the original game for those 2 months to be bothered. Skyrim’s creators are obviously putting a ton of work into this, and if they wanna make a little extra cash by giving 2 month exclusivity rights to xbox I couldn’t care less. Already preordered the game, and I can’t wait till 11/11/11

  • Kid

    I guess it’s OK. It’s some business stuff we have to get used to. I don’t see any reasons not to buy Skyrim.

  • amano

    Nice, now I won’t buy the PS3 version, I download the PC version instead. You just lost a sales Bethesda. But its alright, its only 1 sales.

    • smarterthenyou

      im doin the same amano ^^^

      and its not cos of dlc , its cos those **** havent shown a single clip of footage of ps3 which i think is f***ing outrageous …

  • vizsual

    Its funny how some of you who are crying about this timed release are probably not even planning to buy the game in the first place. You just feel some silly need to jump into a some console debate. Shut up and play.

  • KingOfArcadia

    Umm doesn’t this happen all the time with timed exclusives on the XBOX 360? You would think that the PS3 folks would have figured this out by now.

  • Cthonic

    I love how you crapbox users only can name Halo and Gears for exclusive, while someone already named SEVERAL PS3 exclusives. I’m a PS3 fanboy and noone has yet to come near convincing me the Xbox is better in any way. I agree while you xbox users get DLC first you won’t even be done with the other quests so let MS pay Bethesda so Sony doesn’t because they got the money dish out for something pointless and they wanna pay the developers then let them me however I’m going to be stuck on the main quests and side quests and leveling so I won’t be bothered with the DLC until I’m done with everything else. It just shows how stupid and selfish MS is and they want to TRY and convert PS3 users but sadly there sales are still higher for PS3. While I have collectors edition of Skyrim on pre-order I can sit back and wonder about the next Elder Scrolls instead of being worried about DLC on a already LONG game.

    • randy:)cartman

      Lol crapbox that’s very intelligent. You sir are a moron and dumb. I love how you act like ps3 just shit on the xbox maybe in your dreams. The truth is the xbox has sold more units worldwide up to present and in the last 13 months only 1 month did the ps3 manage to sell more units. I think that speaks for it self. The ps3 also were forced to lower their 120gb model to 249 in hopes of selling more units to not lose money. That also speaks for it self. And haha again ps3 exclusives. They really all suck pretty bad man except for one arguably grand turismo is the only good one and it took way too long to make. Forza 4 is coming out for 360 very shortly and looks better than turismo which took twice as long to make. Wow the ps3 has a bluray player I don’t think many people care cause its a fact over half of the people who own a ps3 doesn’t even own a high def television lol. Second sony knew xbox was going to kick ass and would allow Microsoft to put in blurry in their console. Smart move by sony because then ps3 fanboys couldn’t say well ps3 has bluray and that’s all you have to fall back on. You fanboys are too funny at times really you are. If only you actually were smarter in life you could make good decisions and not buy something based off loyalty. STUPID

      • smarterthenyou

        u come off as a bit of a fanboy cartman lol …

      • bulletprooff

        yea….thats why uncharted 2 and gears of war 3 got goty…..o and they are ps3 exclusives. im proud to be a ps3 owner and honeslty it looks more expensive than the “crapbox”. and if you think that sony is getting hurt by not having more consoles being sold ur wrong. sony has more money because they bought way more exclusives than microsoft. and yea fable 2 did get goty and i never played it but a lot of people think that it sucks. and sony got more goty’s exlclusive games than microsoft.ps3 is more proffesional. im a kid and feel smarter with my ps3 than a “crapbox”. so we win. THE END.

    • randy:)cartman

      You also imply in your post about console exclusives that someone already mentioned several ps3 meaning ps3 has more you are very wrong. Google all game exclusive and look at wikipedia. They show all exclusives for each platform. 360 has about five times more than ps3 and has about five times more great exclusives than ps3 has great exclusives. I own a ps3 and I have played many of thier exclusives and they are crap. Don’t even look that good either like fanboys insist. I use to love ps3 but they were really the only console out to buy. I bought the first xbox a liked it a lot. Games were great and graphics were def better. Once 360 came out 300 bucks cheaper than ps3 that’s curtains on Sony. I don’t care about bluray I don’t watch movies and a lot of people most actually dont care about bluray. If you do care then you can buy a bluray player for 100 bucks. I don’t care ps3 had wireless built in at launch personally if your a game you should be using a wired connection because they are 3-10 times faster and more reliable than a wireless connection so thats crap too. I have my slim connected with a patch cable cause my download speed is 50 mb/s and if I used built in wireless probably more around 5-10 and crappy signal strength. Ps3 is a flop

      • Glitter

        You mention that the Xbox 360 has five times more great exclusives, but these are most likely titles that came out a long time ago, that only certain people would still be playing or care about. It seems like the PlayStation 3 keeps getting more and more exclusives and the Xbox 360 is mainly focussing on games that can also be gotten on PlayStation 3. It is understandable that you do not like most/some of the exclusives for the PlayStation 3, but that doesn’t mean they are bad just because you don’t like them. I mean, atleast the PlayStation 3 has had alot of exclusives this year, where as the Xbox 360 has had little to nothing. Yet people still want to defend it like it is something special. There is proof as to why it is nothing special and you still blindly defend it, which is sadly not at all surprising.

        Even the exclusives for Xbox 360 that wll be coming soon, it is only a small ammount of exclusives. Mean while the PlayStation 3 has many exclusives for 2011 and games that can be gotten on both consoles. Just because you don’t like the exclusives, doesn’t mean that the console is a flop. What is even more sad is that you have to PAY just to have ACCESS to things that you have to PAY for. For example, if a person wants to use NETFLIX etc on their Xbox 360, they have to PAY just to have access to LIVE in order to have ACCESS to those FEATURES.

        People like me who would only casually game online wouldn’t be able to support Xbox 360 anyways because we would be paying for something that we would only use now and then.

      • D-Rudster

        360 came out before ps3, they rushed it because they didnt wnat to get into a console war with one of the biggest console company in the world and that left them with a crap huge console that after 10 mins of gameplay became a paper weight i had oblivion on xbox and it couldnt even play it. The only reason Xbox made a new one was because of the amount people complaining about broken consoles. I personaly think both consoles are now the same and couldnt care less about the DLC it will be useless until ifinnish the game anyway

      • Pedantic man

        Um, excuse me randy:)cartman, but (I am being pedantic here) you have stated: “download speed is 50 mb/s”. This says that your download speed is 50 milli-bits per second, which doesn’t make sense. That is equivalent to a twentieth of a 0 or 1. Be careful of units.
        Also, I must agree with those who state that Skyrim is a big game, and will therefore take more than a month to complete, so the fact that I will have to wait a month (I have a PC) for the DLC doesn’t really matter.
        Bethesda FTW!

      • smarterthenyou

        lol yeah sure thing randy …. im sure you have a million ps3′s lol ….

  • Shade

    Xbox 360 has
    Halo
    Gears of War
    and MINECRAFT !
    thats all we need. dont get me wrong i like some PS3 exclusisve but we bought are systems for a reason. its not like i didnt have a choice to get PS3 or 360. i chose 360 simply because i like Halo and Gears over every PS3 exclusisve and you cant deny xbox has a much larger online community. i mean who talks about resistance online or Uncharted multiplayer compared to Halo? they just simply cant compete lol. your never going to see those games in MLG tournaments. Halo practicly makes up MLG and Gears is starting to get very popular in MLG. those two franchises are lush and have so much content and modes to them. i love there storys and multiplayer. i always prefered Xbox and its exclusisves over Sonys any day. dont take it to offense its just simply our choice and we have our reasons.

  • pstripleFTW

    Exclusive? LMAO! now let me show u what “exclusive content” really is:
    killzone 3
    lbp2
    socom4
    motorstorm 3
    yakuza 4
    inFamous 2
    Resistance 3
    Uncharted 3
    gow: origins
    team ico collection
    etc.

    now thats what i call “exclusive content”
    timed bullshit dont bother me none
    anyway dark souls=GOTY

  • Borngunslinger

    ^^^^^^^^^
    One reason why xbox is better hmmm Probably its crap because of a certain PSN hack and i don’t like to lose my personal info to hackers and the servers are crap thats just off the top of my head im sure some others could tell you far more

  • destro2012

    Man, some of you console fan boys are just stupid. I have both 360 and ps3. I have them both because I like to play video games if they are fun,no matter what system it’s on.If I have a choice to get it in either sytem,I choose 360, better online service. As far as ps3 fans wanting to boycott something, why not Sony. Aren’t they the ones who sold us a 600 dollar system that has only produced a handful of good exclusive titles. Which dosent really matter any way, considering they have the worse online service in the world. How many times have individual games been out of service for weeks on end, or the servers getting hacked, or just have to create 100 differnt accounts and email settings and go through a half hour of bullshit just to be able to click “search for game”. I’m just saying,it may be free, but time has shown that just like anything else thats free, you get what you pay for. So dont get mad at MS because with the money they have made from their support, they created on of the best things to happen to video games since the button. XBOX LIVE.. Dont hate, participate..And if you are stuck hateing XBL beacause you have to wait for you DLC… Just remember that it was XBL commited to online gaming on a console, while Sony apparently didnt think it was gonna be worth while. Leading XBL to what was basically an idustrail revolution for video games on every platform, that lead to all sorts of cool new innovations and standards like DLC.Hence the reason Sony doesnt feel the need to charge for onlne service, hence the reason you have to wait for your DLC.Hence the reason your playing the smallest violin in the world singing nobdy gives a s***.

  • Johnathon Westwood

    I have both a PS3 and a 360 and whilst the PlayStation was my original console, I mostly play the Xbox now because all my friends are on Live and I enjoy cross-game chat. That doesn’t really matter though.
    What’s annoying me are the 360 fanboys on here assuming that every PS3 owner is sitting in their room crying because of some 30 day DLC exclusivity. The majority of PlayStation’s Skyrim fans couldn’t care less about it and the half-wits planning on boycotting the game obviously aren’t true Elder Scrolls fans because if they were they wouldn’t be passing up on a gaming experience that only comes around every four or five years.
    The PS3 commenters on here are right; most won’t even have made a dent in Skyrim by the time DLC is available, so what’s another month going to do?

  • Anonymoose

    First sentence: No one likes being left out

    PC not mentioned in entire article.

  • juto

    ive had 4 xbox 360s and everyone has red ringed me even the elite thats why they are cheaper than ps3s because they were made to break so ms can get more money off you

  • Glitter

    What gets me is that no one with a form of intelligence is correcting people like you. Do you not realize that the console you claim is better is lacking in exclusives for this year? Do you not realize that the console you claim is better has had an unexceptable defect rate throughout its time on the market? No, I don’t care if you claim that the problem has been fixed, in my eyes it will never officially be fixed and even if the problem has been fixed, they shouldn’t have waited so long to fix the RROD, it should have been immediately taken care of when first found and it wasn’t. They kept making chip after chip and there were still problems.

  • deetydoc

    Seriously? I mean… seriously? Are people actually THAT upset over this? Even at the PSU forums it seems like there’s one post that created the poll and about 3 billion posts right after that saying it’s not a big deal. We’re talking about 30 days… that’s it. Personally, I’m getting the PC edition… so I don’t care much about the 360 or PS3. It’ll look/play a million times better on my PC anyway. I’ll still have to wait the 30 days for DLC too, but with over 300 hours of content to explore (and a day job) I think I’ll somehow manage to live out those 30 days without any permanent scars.

    I mean when it gets right down to it… think about ANY fan of Oblivion. 5 years later… I’m STILL playing it! Talk about a game having some freaking replay value… 30 days is a drop in the bucket. Quit whining!

  • steve

    i was going to sell my xbox before this game came out and get a ps3 but i hesitated and then i realized, wait its only a month, i think i can wait a month which everyone else should be able to do too.

  • Tony

    Neither the xbox or ps3 group will ever have the content the IBM compatibles do. The thousands of mods that have been made and are being made for the Pc realm has made Oblivion 4 arguably the best rpg game ever made. And I was there when Ultima 1 and Might and Magic 1 were released. I have the cloth maps from the games (in those days you received cloth maps) on my walls. In any case, if you are truly serious about total immersion nothing beats the Pc version with a couple hundred mods and three monitors used in 3072by 24 with Dolby 5.1 . Highly recommend it.

  • randy:)cartman

    Check it out and see the list of all exclusives for each console. Xbox kills ps3 with way more overall which means more choices for the consumer and also majority of xbox exclusives are def better than ps3. Another thing its sad when ps3 people have to boycott and sign petitions over games like call of duty black ops. Give it up games are crap on ps3 compared to xbox its a known fact. Stop sticking up for an inferior console it is only hurting you not me.

    • smarterthenyou

      more dosnt mean better haha … dont kid yourself .

    • smarterthenyou

      xbox users have always been sore about having the least powerful machine lol

      ^^^ u sir are proof

    • smarterthenyou

      sorry but the quality of the ps3 exclusives speaks for itself …

      uncharted 1 ,2 and beacuse its so frikking good they came back for more BOOM 3 ! then theres warhawk , not the best but fun ! and its successor starhawk which looks shit hot … killzone’s 2 and 3 which take a massive dump on halo lets be honest halos just cod in space … lol

      then you got metal gear solid 4 which is a masterpiece , the singleplayer is in a league of its own and then the multiplayer is a dream aswell

      then theres god of war which completely shits on gears tbh … for sheer action packed gameplay it run circles around gears , altho i love gears aswell dont get me wrong , as i have both consoles i can say that ps3 is better ….

    • smarterthenyou

      wats with u cartman your like a frakin xbox advert ,

    • smarterthenyou

      haha inferior , xbox is inferior everyone knows that.. xbox couldnt even run god of war or metal gear solid or killzone for that matter … paha

  • DudemcDude

    My ps3 got murdered by my brother:( hearing that skyrim dlc is coming early for 360 is probably gonna sway my next system purchase to 360, i personally dont care for the system, i care for the game. And Bethesda makes the best game series there are. I think this war over systems is for people who have nothing better to do than argue. People should get over thier obsession with systems, it is stupid and pointless. If either system was truly better than the other, then the other would be out of business:) Food for Thought

  • DudemcDude

    randy guy has a sick obsession with his 360 in my opinion.

  • Jim

    Wow, fanboys on both consoles are so sad! Personally, I feel that while Xbox has more exclusives, PS3 has far better ones. Uncharted just says it all tbh…but I don’t want to get embroiled in sad arguments and the topic is Skyrim. 30 days is nothing. All I’m worried about is if the PS3 version will be a port of the Xbox (like Oblivion) which means that the PS3 version will be limited to the power of the Xbox. Oh well, it’ll be a heck of a game and 30 days for something like horse armour is quite sad honestly. Anyway, I hope I see no more hating fanboy comments, lets just get back to the matter of SKYRIM!!!

  • randy:)cartman

    I dont have an obsession with xbox its a known fact the xbox has a faster gpu in it than ps3. It’s a KNOWN fact. No fanboy talking here just going by FACTS. Who cares ps3 has faster cpu thats not what visually makes a game good the GPU is what matters. Ask anyone wih a pc who runs a core 2 duo but has a 6970. Now as anyone with a core i7 2600k with a 6970. They will tell you both the games look the same. Now ask someone with a 5650. They will tell you game doesnt look as good because settings have to be turned down. I hate this fanboy debate too but I go by what the facts say. I also go by which console has a better user experience. Paying under 5 bucks a month for me is no problem because i get incredible onlive experience. Anyone who has owned an xbox doesn’t care about the fee because the money goes toward the experience. The only people here who are selfish are ps3 owners who wont admitt xbox has better gpu when it is truly a known fact. You can look up specs of both gpus. A gpu is what 95 percent makes the game your playing. If you want to reject the 360 go ahead but thats only hurting you. I dont care what you do with yor money y would i. It’s stupid though when these ps3 fanboys don’t have a clue of hardware in either consoles and say ps3 kicks ass outt of 360. They both have pros and cons. Both consoles are better at something. But the truth is people design more games on xbox largely because it has a better GPU. Thank Sony for that one. If the next ps4 has a better gpu then it will most likey be the platform designers choose to make games for as long as there are a lot of people who buy the ps4. Everyone says xbox has inferior hardware which is rubbish the cpu is not as fast as sonys but gpu is faster. Why would designers make their games on 360 first if it were inferior. That would make their games inferior then. It’s not because xbox sold more units Sony is barely behind in the numbers count. It’s not because xbox is easier to code gsmes for either. Sony has been around plenty long enough that designers know how to efficiently code games quickly for ps3.

  • Jim

    Yes i agree and all BUT, it’s well known that a large reason for Bethesda developing on the 360 is because if they did it on the ps3, and ported it across, the 360 would not be able to handle it and would suck. Therefore they would have to spend MORE time dimming down the 360 version. I know its not that far behind (which I’m making it sound like) but it is true. And I agree that the 360 online experience is better. Bu only SLIGHTLY. Personally I feel that it is not that much better to warrant paying for it but hey thats just me. Oh, and this is aimed at nobody in specific, but people complaining that PSN is always down are just dull. It is a ridiculous statement. In my 4 years of owning a ps3, it has only benn down 3 times (admittededly one was the PSN hack). Oh and saying PS3 is inferior is absolutely unbelievable! You clearly let your fanboy side pop up then and forgot how stupid those word are. It is all a matter of opinion and my PS3 doesn’t get RROD. Oh and saying having the PS3 is ‘only hurting us’ is stupid too. IMO it’s a better console and it’s not hurting my wallet unlike 360. In 1 year you have lost enough money to buy a new £40 game (or about 4 cheap but good games e.g Dead Space 2 £15)And once again, can we please get back to the subject of Skyrim? Not stupid con soles :/

  • randy:)cartman

    Your points aren’t good jimmy. I don’t care about spending money on xbox live as I stated. It costs me one game a year which is something I don’t care about unless I was poor. I suppose your poor for bring that up even. Lol if your poor incantations understand that then. Skyrim will look better on 360 cause it has a better GPU than ps3. If they designed it originally for ps3 it still would look better on 360 cause it has a better gpu. The CPU doesn’t matter much when playing games if barely at all. Anyone who games on a pc know this by now. But I suppose most ps3 fanboys don’t play pc games either huh cause pc is inferior to ps3 right. Ps3 is 1000000000 times faster and has 98689876897655 times better graphics than pc games right. Bf3 on ps3 is going to be 9765594784938748 times better than on pc right. You guys are truly ridiculous and need to get hit in the face by your dads cock.

    You guys are selfish assholes that pretend to know what your talking about. Any developer knows about cutting edge game design and technological limitations. If they know how to write the most crazy code they know basic shit like that. Your ps3 sucks your dads cock and you touch your ps3 afterwards. Just get over it for once and stop being crying babies cause your dumb fanboyish brains screwed you over. Maybe if you were smart you would realize there’s more to being a fanboy and you’d buy a 360 or the new “720″. And if Microsoft is holding back with “limitations” on games name one game and state an example from it. Yea that’s what we thought. If anything Sony is holding back like in black ops. That game has more features for 360. Sony ps3 sucks your dads cock and then you touch your ps3 and get Goo on you.

  • Jim

    Wow. Wow. Wow. YOU, my friend, are probably the biggest fanboy known to man. Are you 13 lol? That last post is SO pathetic!!!!! You seem to think that everybody else is a fanboy when you clearly are a whiney kid who screams abuse on COD. You believe that it is a fact that 360 is better when it’s not. It’s just a matter of opinion. And I brought up the cost because you were mentioning many flaws of ps3 and so I mentioned a 360 one. And offensive language shows how young you are. I was expecting a well thought and good conversation but you became angry and went mad on me. Calm down mate. Lol I actually can’t get over how much of a fanboy you are!!! I just stated that my favourite thing to game on is a PS3 and you claim i’m gay, the ps3 is worse than your xbox and that im a stupid idiot. Did they name the game ‘RAGE’ after you lol? And FWI it’s well known that Oblivion on PS3 came out much later because they could do more and that is why the PS3 version was better. And if you deny it then go look it up or just have another ill-informed rant mate. And as a it goes I believe that on some games, xbox has better graphics, but on others ps3 does. All of my mates do too, and most of em are xbox fanboys (though not addicts like you). Please don’t get all angry again and embaress yourself again.

  • randy:)cartman

    Jimmy – Munch munch munch thats the sound that your ps3 makes when you put your little wiener in the cd slot. Pathetic as it sounds, your right it is, it is true…xbox all the way

  • Cerldo

    You’re all stupid. It’s just a game. Buy it, play it, replay it. I mean seriously, shut up. Maybe all the whiners should get a job and better society. It’s just a freaking game, for crying out loud. Both consoles rock, and both consoles suck, accept your differences and move on. Skyrim will be an amazing game, so stop the useles debates.

  • Jim

    Ok fanboy I hope you get banned from this site for your pathetic behaviour, and I am bored of you now as you cannot hold a debate. Enjoy thinking the Xbox is better when it’s clearly not.

  • randy:)cartman

    Aww jim is pissed lol … Munch Munch Munch haha.

  • randy:)cartman

    Where are you fanboy Jim I miss talking to you …

  • randy:)cartman

    I think I hurt fanboy Jim’s feelings.

  • Loba

    The way I see it this is no big deal since the main game takes well over 300+ hours to complete according to bethesda, you won’t even touch the dlc until after a month anyways.

  • connor

    I don’t care too much about the DLC coming later I want to buy it all fir this game eventually because this will be one of those games where I really want to get the most out of the 300 hours I will be playing it for, but I’m going to get it on PS3 mainly because I’m not XBOX 360 last 300 hours. I recently checked the fail rates of the two and it was
    PS3: 10%
    XBOX 360: 54%
    And I have way too many friends who have XBOX 360 that a shit themselves, my PS3 is 6 years old I have left it on all night and played all the next day, and I have done this many times and I still do it even more now then ever and it runs as good as ever. My XBOX 360(as much as I do love it)sounds like it wants to die as soon as I turn it on.
    Anyway as for the DLC it doesn’t bother me I will get it eventually and besides where the point in getting DLC first if your XBOX isn’t working and the game wont be very online sort of game(if it has online)so XBOX Live wont beat it there either.

  • connor

    Oh and Jim and Randy I think it is, stop fighting over which console is better your both fanboys and also both very good at making a dick of yourselves, PS3 is good XBOX 360 is good, PS3 has more exclusives and XBOX had better and faster online, it’s all about the fun each console has different games there may be games on PS3 that you like and same with XBOX 360 there might be more XBOX games you like so you buy that. My only concern with XBOX 360 is they are not very reliable they just die to often PS3 is a much more solid console however you do get XBOX Live with the 360 and that is huge XBOX Live is the best online by far and if your an online person then thats a good reason to buy the 360. If you like online and being a bit slower doesn’t bother you then PSN works fine and PS3 would be a good choice. There are a lot of reason why each one is good and then there are reasons why each have bad points there is no better console they do the exact same thing they even go about it the same way, just each has some strengths in areas which the other one may not. So shut they fuck up BOTH of you and just play your game and who cares is PS3 gets DLC later for this, you will get it first for Assassin’s Creed Revelations.

  • Adrian

    Who cares? So XBOX is getting some content earlier. Big deal. PS3 gets exclusive characters in games I own on the 360 (Kratos – Mortal Kombat, Joker – Batman Arkham Asylum) all the time! You win some, you lose some. And in this case, it’s not even a matter of not getting the same content, but getting it a little bit later. Move on.

  • tyler

    Well what i think is that it will be better on xbox 360 and I have a ps3 and xbox and psn is good online but xbox sure you pay like what 8 dollars a month its fun either way in my opinon xbox is for gears of war fallout and skyrim and ps3 is for mw3 and bfbc3

  • Bill

    Look first of all you guys have to stop beeing so immature about who has the better console, now i’m a ps3 owner but i don’t have anything against the xbox 360 infact i think it’s a great console. I dont’t care about waiting 30 days to get the DLC i just need to know that the PS3 version is getting as much attention by the developers as the xbox because i love this game and i don’t want to have to buy an xbox360 just to enjoy it at it’s full potential(even though the only way to do that will be on a top notch pc). All i’m saying is it would be good if we could see some gameplay from the ps3 version that’s not too much to ask right?

  • TkA

    The solution is simple… delay the xbox 360 release until the ps3 one is ready, even more time to fine tune it.

  • Poetz

    Both the xbox 360 fans, and PS3 fans are annoying. shut up.
    Can’t read a damn single forum about anything game related without you yelling at each other.
    I own both, and a pc. Its all good man, just video games.