The PS3 and Xbox 360 version of Battlefield 3 will only support 720p resolution and run at 30 frames per second which is just like “99% of all games for those platforms”.
Johan Andersson, Rendering Architect at DICE, said the following on his Twitter, “how is that a shame?” Johan said. “name a single FPS game that runs at 1080p on any of the consoles? would have to do huge gameplay cuts… 99.9% of PS3 and Xbox 360 games are 720p. and a lot of them, including MW2 is way lower than that.”
“we always do 30 fps on consoles, not possible to fit in vehicles, fx, scale and all players otherwise,” he added. “we think huge levels, lots of players, great fx, destruction, vehicles & varied gameplay is more important than 1080p.”
Andersson revealed that DICE are putting more emphasis into the level sizes, player numbers, destruction, gameplay and vehicles as opose to the games resolution and frame rate.
This could also be seen as a blow with Infinity Ward saying that their Modern Warfare 3 “will be locked at 60 FPS”.
