Battlefield 3’s awe-inspiring tank battle demonstration at E3 was run on a PC, and it wasn’t to make a statement about mouse-and-keyboard superiority. The game, according to developer DICE, will run at 60 frames per second on the PC—but 30 fps on the Xbox 360 and PS3.
https://kotaku.com/battlefield-3s-tank-battles-will-blow-your-damn-socks-o-5809191
Call of Duty‘s latest entries run at 60 fps, both PC and console, to deliver that smoove gameplay. Of course, Battlefield 3 is touting a higher level of visual detail, including fully destructible environments, larger maps, etc.
While 30 fps sounds pretty crap, this isn’t unprecedented; Crysis 2 ran at 30 fps on consoles. And Battlefield 3‘s PS3 demonstration, in Luke’s eyes, was still pretty good-looking.
https://kotaku.com/battlefield-3-looks-just-fine-on-console-thanks-5812902
To repeat, Battlefield 3 is 60 fps on the PC, which it had better goddamn well be. I don’t want to imagine the rioting if it were anything less. Such things matter intensely to the glorious PC gaming master race. Do they matter for the console peasants?
Battlefield 3 to run in 720p, 30 fps on Consoles [Battlefield 3 Blog]
