We all knew it was coming: console versions of Battlefield 3 won't match the leading PC platform for frames per second and resolution, EA DICE's Rendering Architect, Johan Anderrson has revealed via Twitter.
When asked during a Q&A session if Battlefield 3 would run at 60 frames per second, as it does on PC, Andersson responded, "No we always do 30 fps on consoles, not possible to fit in vehicles, fx, scale and all players otherwise."
He then went on to confirm that consoles have been capped at 720p resolution rather than 1080p, before pointing out that the vast majority of console games run at 30 fps and 720p anyway.
Given the amount of computational power required to run the destructible environments of DICE's impressive looking Frostbite 2.0 engine alongside the amount of action that the Swedish developer typically likes to put on-screen, this news is hardly surprising.
"We think huge levels, lots of players, great fx, destruction, vehicles & varied gameplay is more important than 1080p," Andersson stated. Epic agree as far as we're concerned.
Thanks, Battlefield 3 Blog.
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