An article recently surfaced about the use of DICE's Frostbite 2 engine for Battlefield 3. It's been long suggested that Frostbite 2 will be the power behind BF3 and was also used in BF:BC2. The problem however is that the engine can do so much more than a console do, so DICE is building Battlefield 3 in such a way that it is optimized for the PC or each console.

This is something that us PC gamers will be very happy about. Because of the fact that FB2 will probably pushed to its limits on the PC, we will expect the utilization of multi-core processors, 64 bit-OS's, and advanced lighting. With all the extra power and utilization of FB2, it can be expected that we'll be getting 64 player matches again (or more!)

For consoles, given that PS2 has the MAG game which supports up to 256 players, we could see player counts on the console, rival that of the PC. It should be taken into account, that when released the xbox 360's video card had the power of an nvidia 7800gtx video card. We can expect that Battlefield 3's console performance will be similar to that of BC2's

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lol dude in your quote there is a mispelled word well its not a word just instead of bf2 it says fb2 twice

This is inaccurate. It has many mistakes in the article, and I don't believe this to be a reliable source of information.

The only new Battlefield that's been announced is Vietnam. xD

If anything, they've expressed a possibility.