Players who have taken part in Battlefield 6’s open beta were found to be playing with the minimum recommended specs, and that it could hit its goals if it casts as wide of a net as possible.
Speaking with Eurogamer, technical director Christian Buhl said a “substantial number” of the millions of players who took to playing were doing so on lower-end hardware. He also touted the minimum specs to be the most important as it kind for both the commercial and business perspective. Any good developer would want as many people to play its game as possible, and the team did a lot of tests with hardware to find out the absolute bare minimum that it could recommend for people with lower-end PCs.
“Min spec is certainly one of our most important specs […] it’s super important from both a commercial and business perspective – we want as many people as possible playing the game.
We did a lot of analysis, we did tests on the game on a wide range of hardware above and below our minimum and recommended specs. We figured out what we can hit, what we need to hit from a business perspective, and that was to capture a wide audience on PC. It’s been super critical.”
