Last week Bethesda announced that The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim patch 1.2 was submitted to Sony and Microsoft for certification on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, and that a patch for the PC version was coming as well. 

Until now, the only timeframe we had was a "current estimate" for the patch going live the week after Thanksgiving. 

Today, we got some more clarificiation.  Bethesda's VP of Marketing and PR Pete Hines updated fans that the patch should go live for all three updates (PS3, Xbox 360, and PC) during "first half of next week".

While the full list of bugs this patch would address wasn't released, Pete Hines did say that "improved performance for long-term play on PS3" was on the list for patch 1.2.

Hines promised that he would "provide a list of fixes once patch has been certed and no other changes will be made."

http://www.gamezone.com/news/skyrim-patch-1-2-coming-early-next-week-for-all-platforms

So there you go. If your experience is hindered by gameplay issues like texture streaming, lag, etc... Just stop playing this terrible version and play the better version next week like I am.

Im a bit skeptic about "improved performance for long-term play on PS3". They didnt fixed it, they improved it. We will know next week for sure.

Yeah, the wording has me worried as well.

Maybe now it lags after an 8MB file instead of 6MB.

I hope they don't patch out the good glitches and bugs. When I buy the game, I want to be whacked into the stratosphere by some giant.

LOL

I got a good laugh out of that as well. Mine is still sealed until the patch drops. I plan to play and open it then when the dust settles. Currently trying to play Pokemon Platinum and it's like being tortured (i own each generation). It needs to come faster.

Not a bad idea, its an awesome game but it really becomes problematic. I really have a hard time understanding they released it in its current state.

Pathetic, especially since they were gloating over pulling in $450 million. Everyone who bought a broken version should return it and hold Bethesda's feet to the fire for once, since gaming "journalists" apparently won't.

Excuse me, but have you played the PC version to come to that conclusion?

Because I've just logged my 80th hour on it and so far I've only had one crash to desktop and two graphical bugs. I could list a very large amount of games that launch with more problems than these, even for PC. Just because the PS3 got a crappy version (and was anyone expecting otherwise after the PS3 Oblivion fiasco?), you can't simply overlap that to the PC version.

Heck, the PC version of Skyrim is less buggy, more stable and less glitchy than when Oblivion and Fallout 3 launched. It took the patch 1.4.2 for Oblivion and patch 1.3 for Fallout 3 for them to be as stable as 1.1 Skyrim is to me.

Well, well. Seemed that my decision to buy it only next year wasn't really a bad one after all. Still have Star Ocean 4 and Mass Effect 2 to clear (I know they aren't new games, but I'm just catching up from spamming Dragon Age 1, 2 and FF XIII for the whole of this year)

And I have no idea why they would want to release Skyrim with all these problems. All for the sake of a 11/11/11 release? Come on.

But I still have high hopes for Skyrim.