Hi there I have been playing Skyrim on PC for some time and also have it on PS3.

I have a problem, I started a new game after I got bored of my mage and decided to start a new and try swordsman type of character. But this is the problem, even though I still wanted my mage character after I started a new and did a few parts of the game my saves were over written for my mage and I have now lost that character.

Is there no way to have more than one character on PS3 without it overwriting other saves?

Thanks guys!

Choose [New save]

Were you just using the auotsaves and quicksaves? Or were you making manual saves (Going through the menus to save)

Autosaves and quicksaves are always overwritten, the game only maintains a couple of each.

Manual saves should not be auto written over.

Thats what I did! My other saves on my mage were not autosaves either they were the ones I where I pressed new save but they have still been over written!

Same thing happened to me, its worked for probably 4-6 playthroughs and several hours, just keep the prisoner file the game creates just before character creation. 2800-ish kb file so no harm in keepin it.

Ive never new this could happen.

I will do this if it works then :D

It works for me so it should work for you. All else fails, get a 2.0 flashdrive, pop it into your PC to install drivers and now you got a memory card for your PS3. Even with the prisoner save file i'll backup my saves onto it as a precaution, $8 - $30 bucks for usb flashdrive is worth the investment as opposed to rippin your hair out down the line, copy saves onto it and done, couple seconds.

I wrote a complaint about this last year on the tech board. Never got a reply.

Welcome to the club. I've lost 2 high level characters this way. Thanks Bethesda.

You could always use the "try a new character" excuse that was thrown out there a lot.