http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-vs-ps3-skyrim-lag

"A fresh Skyrim game save state up against Rimlag in all its severity as it kicks in on a 65 hour game save. It's the first time our performance anolysis tools have ever recorded a 0FPS reading."

Why have only a handful of PS3 reviewers (and only from recent reviews too) reported these major game-breaking issues? Did Bethesda give all PS3 review sites an Xbox copy of the game? Or did they only play it for 5-10 hours before giving it glowing "GOTY" review scores? Even the PS3 QA team, upon (supposedly) hours of testing, did nobody pick this up? None of this is opinion or isolated incidents, these are cold hard facts.

So many issues, so many questions, and yet... no answers from Bethesda. This isn't isolated, a lot of people are facing these problems. Shame on everyone giving this "GOTY" (not that video game awards meant anything in the first place, but this just cements any doubt on the validity of these shows), if not for the numerous other issues with the game, then the fact that it's unplayable towards the market this game is catered for.

I edited the flame out of your title,

Also, it's the Digital Foundry article from a week ago,

It seems unlikely that Bethesda would have sent XBox copies to PS3 specific magazines and sites. I suppose it's possible, but it certainly seems strange. I've seen some people mention that Famitsu had a picture of their PS3 copy in their article, although I can't personally confirm this.

From my understanding most people who encounter the lag issues do so after 100+ hours of gaming, and chances are most reviewers didn't put 100 hours into a single character before writing and publishing their review. However there are also some people who have logged that much time with a single character and still haven't encountered these problems, I've pvssyd with a few and there were some PS3 reviewer comments confirming this as well.