Er waren drie filmpjes gelekt waaronder een filmpje van de gameplay van de pas kort geleden aangekondigde Jet. DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson heeft vanavond verteld dat dit niet de manier is waarop ze footage aan hun fans willen laten zien, of zoals hij het zei:

 

DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson schreef:
As people have probably noticed, when we show our games - we are very proud of what we're doing - we always want to show it in the best light. We want to show the product as good as possible. Watching the game in crappy 320x200 resolution on YouTube is not the way that we want people to experience the game. We'd rather have them wait for us to show it in its real HD glory. There are a lot of hard hours that have gone into this from the team, and naturally we're disappointed. But, yeah, things happen.

 

 

Het lek zorgde voor veel vragen over de reden dat DICE zo weinig footage laat zien van de console versie van Battlefield 3, behalve het kleine beetje dat je kon zien in de Amerikaanse talkshow Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (zie hierboven).

 

DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson schreef:
I understand you mostly see PC footage. It's all part of what kind of strategy we use for what we want to show and when, and what the lead platform is. People shouldn't worry. We play the 360 and the PS3 version every day in the office. I don't expect people to be disappointed by this. We always want to show a platform that we have chosen to be our lead platform. In this case we did choose PC as the lead platform; it's the one that has been, mostly, driving development forward. That is the reason why we have spearheaded a lot of the key assets with this as well. When the beta goes live people will be able to play it on console and they can make up their minds for themselves if they believe we've been hiding something.

 

Ook heeft Troedsson duidelijk aangegeven dat Jets gewoon speelbaar zullen zijn op de consoles.

 

Battlefield 3 zal vanaf 25 oktober te koop zijn, maar in de schappen zal je hem waarschijnlijk niet vinden. Als je hem meteen wilt hebben kan je dus maar beter pre-orderen!