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The release of the PC version of EA’s Battlefield 1943 has been delayed until early next year, developer DICE has confirmed.

The download-only World War II FPS was expected to make its PC debut in September 2009, but its launch has now been pushed back to the first quarter of calendar year 2010.

“We haven't released a Frostbite [DICE's game engine] built game on PC, so going into this project we lacked a starting foundation we had on console,” Gordon Van Dyke, the game’s producer, told G4TV. “There are also many different and unique only challenges to the PC that has lead to us pushing the release even further to Q1 CY 2010.



“This was a hard pill to swallow, but it was absolutely needed to ensure the features and functionality that PC Players have come to expect from Battlefield on PC are not missing,” he added. “Things like support for DirectX 9 and 10, higher player count (up to 32-player matches), wide peripheral support i.e. Joysticks for flying, VoIP, and ranked server provider hosting. So it was and still is the absolutely right decision, for quality sake, to not release until it is ready.”

Battlefield 1943 broke a number of download records following its July release on PS3 and Xbox 360, and has sold over 600,000 copies across both platforms.

You can read our review of the game here.