Battlefield 3 is being heavily promoted as a PC release, but last week it was shown running on the PlayStation 3 during an episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The game looked great—we've embedded a video of it in this post—and now DICE has shared more details on what we can expect from the console version. No, it won't look as good as the PC version, but it's still going to look great.

"DICE developers confirmed via Twitter that the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions would run at 720p, as opposed to 1080p, which both consoles support. Furthermore, console versions would run at 30 frames per second, which is considered the bare minimum frame rate for first person shooters," an unofficial Battlefield 3 blog reported. "The news comes after DICE developer Johan Anderson confirmed via Twitter that the game will run at 30 fps on consoles, and later confirmed that it will be in 720p as well."

The framerate limitation is a compromise to get the level of action Battlefield 3 demands on a console, and was expected by the development team. "We always do 30 fps on consoles, not possible to fit in vehicles, fx, scale and all players otherwise," Anderson stated on this Twitter account.

Ignoring the raw numbers, the footage from the Fallon show looks great. Still, we'll be sticking to the PC for this one.