Under the Hood - PSP Load Times

[valar]

i don't notice these long load times as gamestop says.some games have brilliant graphics (ghosts'n'goblins,ridge racer,tekken) and the loading times are short.psp is a stellar device.

[NovaKane]

After my experiences with my PSP games I've decided that no matter how good a game is, if the load times are crap, I'm not buying it.

Some of the PSP games I own where loading sucks:
- Ghost in the Shell (I stopped playing it after the 2nd level)
- Gitaroo Man (this game is too short to have such long loading times)
- Burnout Legends (OMG)
- Bleach: Heat the Soul (only six characters and it still takes forever to load)

With that said I will always love my PSP, but long loading times for a portable device are very unacceptable. I think it's sad that one of questions I have to ask when considering a PSP game is, "How's the loading time?" Developers should start looking at Tekken as far as how load times should be on the PSP.

Edit: I never count loading times as far as logo/copyright screens etc. I'm talking about going from the main menu to the actual level.

[.:}<3\/!}\{:.]

hmmm....most of my games load quite fast but only mid night club let me down(probly it has loads of textures to load)

[pspuser123]

try loading one match in starwars battlefront 2
it takes for ever (but the ingame is really good)

[Adrenalin]

look at the state of PSP now! sony got carried away with their usage of a disk format, and its a matter of fact. unless the machine has incredible load times, disks just don't suit portables!

Nintendo sure knows how to own sony. n0 loading time for nintenodo portable game consoles (ds, gb, gba etc) to load some of the greatest games ever!

not only poor loading times, but crap games too.
the only thing that is ok with psp i homebrew (of which is always being fought intesly by sony- ie firmware updates) and even of that the best part is Game boy emulation LOL!

DS>PSP

Ownage!

[Mr. Shizzy]

I think most games are pretty reasonable. Yet still, others are rendered uplayable, because of horrible load times. I can't even bare to try to play The Con. Even though it's a decent game, the load times are just plain unacceptable. Sometimes, you literally watch loading screens , more than you actually play...I think disc is a better choice of format than cartrige, for obvious reasons. But only if load times can be kept to a reasonable level. (Which takes efforts on the parts of both the hardware, and software devs)