You seem to be unaware of the extent. 

Many PS3 users can't even enjoy the game by itself without crashing, infinite loading screens, reduced texture and sevre pop-in, etc. 

This issue goes beyond the DLC. The game in itself IS unplayable. 

PS3 fans: I'm not buying another Bethesda product until they fix the lag/framerate/etc and bring it up to par with other systems!

Bethesda: Ok, well then I guess we need to delay the DLC until we think the quality is high enough. We aren't going to release until its 100% functional. We don't want to further the label of Bethesda as "half-assed"developers.

PS3 fans: Why is the DLC not coming out waaaaaaaah!

this, this is the issue;

last gen should have had 1gig of memory  avoid all kinds of issues and limitations we hit with the crappy ram limits in both consoles.... you can see the choking points in dead rising , draw issues in just cause 2... and minecraft... im still surprised it works well on 360... i cant imagine it working well onn the ps3 with 256... the draw distance would have to be reduced so much 

I may be spoiled ive been using 6 gig of ram in PC since 03  (32 now for one PC and the other 16)....felt last gen should have had a minimum of 1gig of ram .... just imagin what could have been done... 

Pretty much to the point.

Nope.

If PS3 has only 218 MB RAM for games none of the multiplats would have even worked properly on it. GT 5 1280x1080 wouldn't even be possible on it.

PS3 can use both memories for the games, it has been stated by devs themselves.

Did you fail in language btw?

edit : I just noticed. You said PS3 has 218 MB RAM for games and then go on to say that it is 45%. Nope, according to you it is 55% less RAM than the 360, further proving you are both sh!t at maths and language. It is 45% of the total 360 RAM, but 55% less

Further showing how absurd your point is.

could it be due to them pushing the limits of what hardware can handle at that point in time? graphics are not the only way to push hardware, AI can be very ram consuming. objects location tracking cn be as well. id say active quests would be the major issue for skyrim if they capped it on the ps3 they may be able to improve performance, or shurnk the active area and allowed for vast load screens and hidden walls, the active area is vastly cut down on the 360 version vs pc 

and yes on both consoles the game is ram limited, and gpu limited vs the full version but as console players we have known, or should know this when buying.  

closest you could get is using an SSD but on a sata1 interface you will have limited the gain a bit. most ssd are designed for sata3... ssd loads better than hdd in terms of speed, but massivly out classes by ram...

i think to be more accurate it would be like if you were looking into breaks to use on your care and you bought a pair that was is rated for X use  and X across all other cars, where it gets x on your car but exceeds X on other cars  due to the other cars having needed subsystems to make X perform better 

it still works, just not like you imagined, but only to the minimum level required

Oh guys... this thread is full of misunderstandings.

Let's talk about technical aspects with memory:

Point of view from a processor:
 A modern processor is extremely powerful and fast in calculations but obviously it needs *data* to calculate. The first location to get data from is (cpu!-)cache. This is extremely fast memory but sadly very small in size. When the cpu does not get data from the local cache there is a cache-miss and the data has to be fetched from bigger, but slower memory. Few years ago this was ram, nowadays there is l2-cache (or sometimes even l3-cache) to close the gap between l1-cache and ram. While data is gathered from "external" memory the cpu is in a "stall"-state. This is called "io-wait". It should be obvious that fetching data from an hdd (this is, when data is not even present in ram (so we had several misses by then) takes almost forever if you imagine the processor. swapping is an absolute unwanted case in *every* computer-related case. what makes an hdd extremely slow is especially the access-time - a ps3 has a 2.5"-hdd which usually has an access-time of ~12ms. This is the time some packages need in the internet to reach other servers, in comparison. And this is where the hdd just begins to transmit data!

so, using the hdd in ps3 to circumvent the small size of ram is... well, let's say, not a good idea.

PS3 just required a different technical solution, which is to only render items in the immediate environment of the player. That way there's a lot less demand on the RAM, despite there being hundreds or even thousands of item movements and placements across the entire game world. The only thing is that would require Bethesda to make major changes to the game engine, which would increase the cost of making the PS3 version immensely, and thereby make the game much less profitable.

Of course they could have started out by looking at the architecture of all the machines they'd be putting the game onto and design the software accordingly, rather than design the software to work well on 2 out of 3 of rhe machines and be sub-standard on the 3rd.