@Killthesheep correction bf2:modern combat was for consoles (ps2, xbox and 360 to be precise) battlefield 2 was pc ONLY. Look them up they're completly different games on completly different game engines, no console battlefield has had jets yet, battlefield 2 pc had jets
@ClawedMonkey that pc player count is a lot more than the 600,000 sales figure MEDzZ3RO gave me XD. (Thank you for also proving my point he is quoting retail sales figures only and not digital sales figures)
@MEDzZ3RO "I've given you a strong source with VGChartz which although not perfect, it's the best source to find game sales. Across the board the sales figures it gives seem relatively accurate. Why haven't you given me a source?"(again retail sales only, NOT digital e.g steam, ea store, stardock, direct2drive etc) if pc sold only 600,000 and consoles 5 million explain how pc unlocked the vietnam map whilst consoles only managed the halfway point with that amount of players between them??? (Cant use "pc players are better team players" excuse thats a HUGE difference in player numbers) There is your answer to that point (although im still trying to find a link to that thing about pc outselling consoles with bc2 may take me a while it was linked on my facebook page months ago) -edit- found 1 link http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=18648 (i love it in this article they seem to think cod pc players switched to consoles XD...they didnt they, simply stopped buying cod games were the company was treating them like 2nd rate citizens e.g dedicated server support dropped, lean dropped etc...whole bunch of other stuff but would take too long to list XD)
@MEDzZ3RO sorry but it was CONFIRMED its also how pc players unlocked the vietnam map so quickly whilst 360 and ps3 had only managed to get to the halfway mark with the unlock (in the end DICE had to just unlock it for console gamers even though they hadn't earned enough team points to unlock the map). This is also why DICE decided to make BF3 pc the lead platform whilst the console versions are ported from the pc (works better that way as it scales better to the more powerful console rather than graphics being determined across all platforms for the weaker hardware) -EDIT- forgot to mention your sales figures you giving are "retail" only steam, ea store and all the other download services DONT give out sales figures.......
@Paintballman97 -sigh- gets slightly annoying explaining this, bf2 wasnt on consoles (closest equivalent was bf2:modern combat using a completly different engine to bf2 on pc), i think your referring to bad company 2 and yes the graphics were similar because it was a console game ported to pc (cheaper to just copy and paste the game than add more graphics), battlefield 3 is a pc game ported to console there WILL be differences but from what ive seen so far on jimmy fallon show (look on youtube) the differences you most likely wont notice whilst playing the game, the only 1 i see everyone picking up on is the lack of gun smoke in big firefights and possibly the lower lighting effects on consoles..the rest nobody will notice. -edit- sorry misread what you put looked like another console gamer mixing up bf2 with bc2 for a sec (ill leave this up anyway maybe prevent someone posting something like that up XD)
@Got2stoned Vince Zampella and Jason West have nothing to do with DICE or battlefield (at most id say they may have had some input into medal of honor that reeked a lot of a CoD game). Both those guys (and the rest of the infinity ward members that left) have their own studio making a sci fi shooter (all the info given atm), either way your close they're working for EA same as DICE are
@esgyear they showed it running on ps3 on the jimmy fallon show?? (hope i got that right im not american and dont get that show). The only MAJOR difference i saw was the special effects e.g particle effects for smoke and slightly lower textures on the enviroment, rest is on par with pc. Quite amazing considering its 5 year old tech....
@MEDzZ3RO your theory is sound but for one fact...its pc lead platform game. BC2 pc outsold the console versions to the point nearly half of bc2 sales are on pc. BF3 is closer to bf2 than you think all that seems to have carried over is the 4 member squads,rush (interesting fact rush was made for bf2142 but was never implemented) and destruction thats about as much of bc2 thats carried over. From bf2 we have the return of jets, fire mode select on guns, prone, large open maps (according to dice weve only seen rush multi which is still 32 player on pc), 64 player games. The 4 class system is from 2142 essentially a bf2 mod
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