Can This Possibly be True - PSP Load Times

[Griking]

This movie (http://leenks.com/link35183.htm) can't possibly be true can it? If so that it's just completely unreasonable.

[Xexyz]

Okay, first off, calm down. This is not the hardware's fault, but rather the developer of the game. Yes, Smackdown vs. Raw 2006 has horrendous load times.

EDIT: My origional post there was reffering to your F*** the PSP comment, before you edited it.

[unwinddesign]

To be fair, every time you skip a video/cut-scene in almost any game, be it for a home console or the PSP (i.e. disc based media), the game will have to load. Many games load up the next scene/section of the game while the cutscene is being played.

Also, 30 seconds to load up a game from the system's menu is not all too uncommon for games these days.

Still, for a portable game, it's a bit ridiculous that it will take you 1:30 or so to get to the menu, and probably at least 2:30 to get started in a [continued] season mode match.

[stressboy]

The developer needs to be shot. There is no fucking way a game should take that long to load up. I think the longest loading game I have on my PSP is GTA, and that feels faster than the GTA games for the PS2.

[neuropolitique]

But somehow the Benny Hill music makes it all better. Maybe they should have included that in the actual game.

[Nez]

Hmm and i thought the NeoGeo CD had bad loading times.

That shit was bad and the benny hill music looped how many times 6 7?

[tholly]

that was pathetic / hilarious.....pathetic on the part of THQ for shipping a piece of shit like that.....load times over 1 minute are too much for a portable..... and the guys comments in that movie were friggin hilarious..... i love when he mentions that it had to load the loading screen....ahahhaha

[Mr Mort]

Yeah, I've played it before, and even just loading a quick exhibition match takes a ridiculous amount of time. The video is legit, I can attest to that. As far as I'm concerned, load times like that are truly unacceptable in a handheld. I don't care how nice the game looks (and it does look amazing), or how well it plays, load times like that defeat the very concept of a handheld gaming device.

It's part Sony's fault for the system's design, part the developer's fault for not finding better shortcuts and techniques to shorten the load times.

[Mayhem]

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=81063 ;)