When we say they are smaller, it's not that we have cut them in half.

The biggest difference between the PC and console version of Battlefield 3 is that we have 64 players on the PC and 24 players maximum on console.We tried to get more players in but then you need to scale down all the graphics, scale down all the destructibility, and sometimes you need to scale down all the map sizesĪlterations were also done on the maps themselves to make them work better for smaller numbers of players: Limitations caused by hardware requirements causes the maximum number of players in a game to vary between versions:

Currently, Battlefield 3 does not support cross-platform multiplayer.Īccording to this article, which quotes the studio head, Robert Bach, there are numerous differences between the PC and Console versions of Battlefield 3: