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Electronic Arts has announced it's aligning Battlefield 3 with the PlayStation 3 in a similar fashion to Activision's Call of Duty arrangement with Xbox 360.
Microsoft revealed a deal with Activision last year that will see all Call of Duty DLC released first on 360 through 2012. At least for this one game in the series, EA will do the same with Battlefield 3, but on PlayStation 3 -- all of the game's expansion packs will come to Sony's console a week early. A week may not be as substantial as the one-month gap that we see with the Call of Duty DLC, though it is nevertheless a period of exclusivity the 360 won't have and Sony can tout.
This one-week period will first apply to the Back to Karkand expansion, a $14.99 DLC add-on that's said to be on par with the size of Bad Company 2's Vietnam expansion. It includes four remastered maps from Battlefield 2 plus other content, and can be had for free if you purchase a Limited Edition copy of the game (which is to say, one of the first copies of the standard game that is produced).

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