Bethesdas current gen actions can have a negative effect on them next gen

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What people purposefully ignore about the Elder Scroll games, and the Fallout games is that Bethesda uses its own in house proprietary engines to run those games. A engine that works poorly with the PS3s hardware. It isn't that the development community really came to grips with the PS3s hardware. They just licensed engines from those that had, and if you think that was easy you would be wrong. The premiere provider of game engines Epic spent like a year getting their engine to work on the PS3.

Yes the PS3 is actually that different from everything else. So Bethesda has a much bigger mountain to climb in that regard, and the overly ambitious design of their games only increases the angle of that slope. From what I have seen of the new expansion, and what I know of at least the first expansion. I think Bethesda hit a real hard limit on the PS3s technology, and they haven't found a satisfactory work around. The previous expansions were fundamentally altering the over world in Skyrim, but the newer expansion takes place in a new over world. So it is less like they are trying to add something on top of a already stressed capacity.

Anyway if Sony is developing a new console. Hopefully these problems won't carry over, because Sony is going to have learned from the PS3, and will give developers like Bethesda a better ram usage scheme to work with. It is probably a case of their games being more ram intensive due to their design concept. From what I understand the 360 uses a unified ram set up. While the PS3 uses dedicated ram. So while they are equal overall. Developers on the 360 can basically borrow more ram if they need to. Which is what Bethesda probably does with their own games.

Hey look at the bright side. Bethesda is probably getting the absolute most they can out of the hardware. They just need a bit more then what is available. As for his arguments about the developer on computers. I think it is more of a case that there is low demand, and rampant piracy. There is nothing in the previous two expansions that can't be effectively done already through mods, and there isn't enough there to encourage patronage, or to even discourage piracy.