User blog comment:Bovell/Battlefield 3 maps to be smaller on consoles, news on player fly-zones/@comment-1531880-20110330200045/@comment-1439572-20110330231007

The game is still in pre-alpha. Anything might change.

But as you probably know, for performance it's the more the better. Better build a PC for something else and wait until BF3 actually comes out.