Dice: 24 Players Is The ‘Sweet Spot’ On Consoles

By Nick Baumfeld
Posted on July 25, 2011 AT 05:56am

Dice is aiming to push every platform that Battlefield 3 is being developed for to its limit however not all platforms are equal.

Battlefield Brand Manager, Kevin O’Leary has been discussing why 24 players works best for multiplayer on consoles.

“We’re an all-platform developer, to be honest,”

“We want to make sure that every platform that we have the game out on, it’s the best possible experience for that platform.

“On console we’ve made the decision to go 24 players on multiplayer because it’s the sweet spot. We’ve seen from telemetry and testing and so forth – that’s what we know works well for our consumers and our players.”

Source: PixelEnemies

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Bio: Nick Baumfeld has been involved in the video game industry for a good 12 years. He has seen the industry from all view points and has a background in websites, website integration and social media. Nick pioneered the online video game rental business back in the day, moved forward into online video game trading and then moved viral with the well received Video Games Application on Facebook. Today, he has joined up with EGM founder Steve Harris to create something truly unique and special; EGMNOW, a community dedicated to all manner of gamers.

Gaming MO: Nick is a first person shooter type of gamer and enjoys heated bouts of Halo with friends and family (even while being schooled by his children).

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