Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 ‘s PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions have no campaigns. You don’t get any story mode. For $50, you’re pretty much paying for the multiplayer experience. Treyarch’s Jason Blundell, the campaign director, told the Official Xbox Magazine what happened.
The key is in how the campaign works. Treyarch designed it to be a cooperative experience. Since people can customize weapons, this means a certain amount of system memory must be available so the person playing is aware of the partner’s loadout. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 didn’t have that kind of memory. Blundell’s exact quote is as follows.
“So it’s a co-op game. Let’s imagine I have my customised weapon and I’ve made it with a stock and all this extended mag and so forth. For you as a co-op player to see what weapon I have, you have to have loaded in the memory – in resident memory – every single weapon customisation. Current-gen memory just can’t do that. You’d have to have everything loaded otherwise you just can’t see what I’m carrying.”
Rather than compromise or have a campaign experience that isn’t up to snuff, Treyarch decided it would be best to omit it altogether. That’s why only the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows PC offer a campaign.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 will be available on the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Windows PC on November 6. If you want the full experience, play it on a current generation system.
Source: GamesRadar