It’s beginning to feel almost like DICE is harbouring some sort of hidden resentment for the console versions of its upcoming shooter, Battlefield 3. It was announced a while back that the PC is the game’s lead platform, which essentially can be interpreted as saying the game is being developed primarily with PC in mind, much to the delight of long time Battlefield fans.<\/p>\n
“PC is the leading platform, conceptually, for this game, definitely. We are going to make this game on 360 and PlayStation 3 as well, [but] we need to scale it down to those platforms,” Karl Magnus Troedsson told <\/a>the latest issue of PC Gamer.<\/p>\n “The PC players are going to love to hear that, but it’s a fact. The hardware specs on the console are limited. At the same time, for each iteration on these console platforms we can utilise the power of them better and better, so what we do on the other platforms is going to be amazing, and look much better on the PC too.”<\/p>\n “There’s going to be unique features on the PC version of this game, some of which I think people are going to be very pleased about. I can’t reveal all of them… but I can reveal that there will be a lot of extra love put into the PC version of this product.”<\/p>\n We were also told that the PC version would support up to 64 players on a single multiplayer map, while the console versions would be capped at 24 players. Fittingly then, DICE has now revealed<\/a> that console gamers will have to live with smaller, more confined maps than PC gamers.<\/p>\n