After over a month of Skyrim’s Dawnguard expansion being an Xbox-exclusive, PC users were greeted by the DLC’s surprise Steam release the other day to help kick off the big QuakeCon sale. At the time of this writing it is the highest selling item in the Steam Store, a testament to the ludicrous popularity of the game on PC.
For PS3 users however Dawnguard has still yet to surface, and from the sound of things is still quite a ways off. In the words of the official Bethesda blog:
“We are not satisfied yet with Dawnguard’s performance on the PS3. We would like for everyone to have a chance to play Dawnguard, but we aren’t going to release it for PS3 knowing that some people’s experience in Skyrim will be worse. We do everything we can to have our content available to all; from our free updates, to user mods, to paid DLC. We’re as disappointed as our fans when that isn’t the case, but we’ll continue to push for that reality.”
Owch. PS3 users really do seem to get screwed when it comes to Bethesda games. The PS3 port of Skyrim was easily the worst of them, and there’s a long history of DLC being slow to arrive to the system, if it ever arrives at all. Granted the PS3 is notorious for being tricky to develop for, but you’d think after nearly six years major developers who care enough to make a PS3 port would have worked out the kinks. Then again, better it be released in as close to a functional state as possible than rushed out and fixed months later.
Seriously though, if you’re going to play Skyrim, do it on a PC.
The Skyrim hype has died for me. Not spending £13.99 on this.
“Seriously though, if you’re going to play Skyrim, do it on a PC.”
Or even better, don’t play it at all!
They really handled this in a weird way. From no announcement at all, to saying they haven’t made an announcement but they’ll let us know when… and then it’s just suddenly out with no fanfare.
It shows that PC and PS3 are very much secondary to them. Can’t blame them for focusing on the platform that gives them the most sales I guess, but exclusivity deals are moronic.
well the exclusivity deal is something that Bethesda signed up for a very long time ago, way before the modding scene became the main (well… only) selling point of the game
Meh, it really isn’t worth the price for me, especially with the crossbow basically being a reskinned bow and all.
If Bethesda isn’t satisfied with the performance, you know it must be really bad.