We all knew it'd happen in some form or another: DICE has confirmed at the C2E2 conference in Chicago today the console versions of Battlefield 3 will see scaled down maps from their PC counterpart, at least partly to accommodate for the smaller player count.

Aircrafts will still be in, and will actually have larger flight zones versus on the PC where "out of bounds" zones will be in place. It's not confirmed how exactly this works at this stage, but presumably there will be more unused land and sea areas those in jets and such players will have to fly over, requiring roughly the same amount of distance to be covered as on PC for balance purposes.

On the upside, word from the show is the PS3 version is looking just lovely despite the advanced nature of the PC version we've been seeing in trailers. DICE have a history of keeping their titles on all platforms to a high standard, and it sounds like this case won't be any different.