User blog comment:Saratje/PC release date explained - Skyrim: Dragonborn DLC/@comment-209.141.131.141-20130110205408/@comment-67.187.96.246-20130112185823

Not true even in the slightest. It's the publishers who determine what the developers work on, and how they're paid. Why do you think the developers seek out publishers in the first place? It's certainly not because the publishers themselves understand anything about games aside from what's currently popular. It's because they have the money to fund the game companies on their agendas for creating the games that we have today. So what happens when the developers don't bring the product they want to the table? And what happens when said product doesn't make the publishers any money? They take it out of the development teams hides, which usually ends up with entire development teams being laid off or merged. As for the latest anon, I refer you again to the fact that this is not Bethesda's fault. It was Zenimax that decided to go with the collaborative efforts with Microsoft, which led to Sony getting pissed off and not sharing the PS3's source code with Bethesda; forcing them to essentially write everything from scratch, on a platform that they know next to nothing about.