You are releasing PS3 and 360 versions: are they going to suffer a similar level of scaling-back as what we saw with BF3? Yeah, we'll maintain the 24 players. The maps weren't smaller in BF3 on console; we had the same size. But we didn't have conquest with 64 players; we had smaller conquest with 24 players - so the map size was the same but with fewer points to capture. Lars Gustavsson, creative director at DICE. It's put a bit of a spin on BF4 for current gen consoles. Personally I don't really see the point in getting BF4 if you aren't going to play on PC or Next-gen. It'll be very similar to BF3. Source Dice development team
