User blog comment:TombRaiser/Hearthfire now available on Steam./@comment-129.130.18.61-20121005035817/@comment-68.48.230.6-20121005042515

Your comment makes no sense. The PC version is likely profitable since Skyrim has been Steam's biggest seller to date. Close to a year after release, Skyrim regularly charts in Steam's top 10 most purchased games. The number of PS3 customers is likely many times the PC install base. There's easy money on the PS3 table but Bethesda can't get to it because of technical problems. Bethesda has smart people. If this was purely a software problem they would have patched the game by now. This is a hardware limitation. This is about memory. The PS3 doesn't have enough resources/memory to handle Skyrim. Perhaps, with a lot of software rework and algorithm redesign, Bethesda could make the game run well and bring all the DLC to the PS3 but that would take years of rework and lots of money. It isn't worth it, not when new consoles are seemingly due to arrive in 2013. Not only that, Bethesda is probably well into development of Fallout 4. They're not going to divert their engineers to rework Skyrim's game engine just for the PS3. It's too late. This is not Bethesda's fault. Sony skimped on memory and split the memory into two groups instead of making it one shared memory pool like the Xbox 360. This is ultimately a Sony screw up. It's on Sony not Bethesda.