DICE: Battlefield 3 will use Frostbite 2.0 on consoles

Following an earlier rumour suggesting the contrary, DICE has confirmed the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of Battlefield 3 will run on the same Frostbite 2.0 engine powering the PC version of the game.

Speaking on Twitter, DICE senior gameplay designer Alan Kertz said “bull*** confirmed. Frostbite 2.0 is the engine running the game on all platforms!!”

There are, however, differences between the two versions. Speaking to VideoGamer.com in April, DICE executive producer Patrick Bach explained some of the things the PC version could manage that the Xbox 360 and PS3 couldn’t: “The higher resolution, the higher framerate, the anti-aliasing, the motion blur, stuff like that. We can’t have it to the same quality on the console,” he said.

DICE also confirmed last week that Battlefield 3 would use different infantry animations between its single and multiplayer modes.

EA Black Box’s latest game in the Need for Speed series – Need for Speed: The Run – is powered using the Frostbite 2.0 engine, and has also been shown running on consoles.

VideoGamer.com went hands-on with Battlefield 3 at E3 2011. Read the latest Battlefield 3 preview to find out why we dubbed it “shock and phwoar”.

I don’t want to accuse the website that originally span these rumours of something like, say, poor fact checking or simply making things up, but you – the humble reader – might be thinking that.