Battlefield 3

I've had the luxury of looking at Battlefield 3 over at DICE in Sweden and was highly impressed by the way the team is working on that product," he said. "Of course, that's not [coming out] in the fiscal year, but that is a product that is looking very good.    

Battlefield 3

I've had the luxury of looking at Battlefield 3 over at DICE in Sweden and was highly impressed by the way the team is working on that product," he said. "Of course, that's not [coming out] in the fiscal year, but that is a product that is looking very good.    

BF3 will not come out on consoles, that's why they have the Bad Company and Modern Combat series. 
 
I think it'll be the same story as BF2, no single player with a tactical multiplayer focus. BF3, like BF2, would be too technical to port to consoles.

I' ve kind of been thinking along the same lines as you. The Bad Company series is more console focused (notice Onslaught Mode is only coming out on consoles), and Battlefield 3 will be their big PC game in a year or two. Of course, to appease the console players who don't get to play BF3, they'll have to release Bad Company 3 soon after it (or at least announce it as coming soon).
 
Oh, and I agree with you about that quote from Pleasants...the more time that passes, the more I think he was looking at Bad Company 2.

No...............no this cant be............................... 
 
Howl ! Howl ! Howl ! Howl ! ( which play is that from)
 
Why is god so cruel.

Alright... so it seems to be official.  
 
BATTLEFIELD 3 EXISTS!

Not only that, but it's multi-platform! Didn't see that coming before, especially as there is no allusion to a special version (like Modern Combat for the consoles, as a watered-down version of BF2). 
 
I wonder if they started on  it after 2142, with a handful working on through the release of Heroes and the two Bad Company games, and after MoH the non follow-up support people will be fully committed to 3. What this all means, of course, is that details should be coming out soonish.

Yea I really figured they wouldn't make another PC exclusive BF game...

" BF3 will not come out on consoles, that's why they have the Bad Company and Modern Combat series "

Technically, BC2 is an evolution of BC1, which adapts some features of BF2, but it's not supposed to have the same direction. BC is designed to be more infantry based, whilst Battlefield is, you could argue, the 'truer' experience where vehicle warfare comes into its own.

Hm. If they make the graphics a bit better ( artstyle wise ) en add jets / planes. That would be nice.

I think  DICE has found some other options for fitting the BF3 experience onto consoles. In a forums post a while ago, one of the devs said that the current limiting factor to player caps on console is bandwidth, which is restricted on PSN and Xbox Live by Sony and Microsoft respectively. The big bandwidth eater in Bad Company 1/2 is the destruction, which is why the console player caps were restricted.
 
The upshot is that if DICE decided to simplify or entirely remove destruction for BF3, they could significantly bump up the player cap on consoles, and improve connections on PC. I think this could work for them, keeping the Bad Company games with a focus on infantry and destruction, while maintaining main Battlefield games as larger scale and vehicle based.

I really hope they put prone back in the game and up the player count. Destruction is cool but I want to play against more people. Battlefield 2 had awesome 64 player matches and I miss that.