PSP ROCKS man
but still lacking in the games title

i think the orignal psp SUCKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

me and my friend compared with gta vice city stories, and the psp slim had loaded before the origional hadnt loadded at all.
the slims loading bar was full, the orrigional was emapty!

if u have a hacked phat psp like me sum how all games umds or isos load wayyyy faster .
including old games. but hey remember how slow ps2 used to load at first? its the same thing here. they just need time

mgs portable ops and ops + dont take to long

shin budukai 2 takes time to laod

thats one thing the psp has to fix, the dam load times

well psp is really becoming so popular game... i wanna buy one XD

Its like 200 times faster with the slim (more RAM I guess..)

Guitaroo man takes a really long time to load

I dont have a psp yet but i have played many games on one...I play on my friends psp and never have a problem with load times

The only games I play on PSP are Tekken: Dark Resurrection and SFAlpha 3 Max, and they are among the shortest load times, especially Tekken! 75 and 95 respectively! Yeah! The new PSP loads much faster than the older models because of the increased internal memory (RAM).

hmm old psp loads faster right? i'm glad i have that one, i have no problem with most games, load times are all under 1 minute though Dungeon Siege might take 30 seconds for a map to load. But then when you watch Tales of Eternia it takes about 3 seconds to load world map/dungeons/ and even less then 1 second for the battle.

i've got no problem with my slim it's incredibly fast!

well, you have to weigh in the fact that all these tests were done w/ the old PSP's, not the new PSP's that cut down loading screen time significantly

Yeah well, PSP offers superior CPU speeds, video processing, screen clarity, multimedia functions, internet connectivity, screen size, screen colors available, storage, size for games, and more.

My PSP games take seconds to load, and the DS takes a very comparable time to start too. I've got all three systems, and I don't notice any real difference. Hey, which system won in the past- the PS, with it's CDs, or the N64, with it's cartridges. Don't get me started.

As mentioned by other posters, it seems like your comparing apples and oranges rather than apples and apples when you talk about load time comparisons between the PSP and the DS. The PSP has superior graphics and gameplay which can be directly attributed to its disc based design, this obviously takes more data and in some cases longer load times. If you want shorter load times at the sacrifice of the graphics, voice overs, length of games..etc. then the DS would be a good choice based on its cartridge based design. You also sacrifice the ability to enjoy your own movies, music, and until recently access to the internet ( and for that privilege on the DS you have to spend an extra $35 on a browser which must be purchased seperately ).

Sorry you guys just pressed a button when you included the DS comparison. I just don't expect to get that in an article titled "PSP load times". I would whole heartedly read, and expect it, in an article comparing the PSP and DS systems.

Peace Out

i agree

this story isnt all true...most of my games load in less than a minute... and in one case my starwars renagade squadron game loads in less than 15 seconds. too bad for you other guys!!!! ; P

i have fifa world cup and xmen legends and their load times r very short 4 me

my PSP hunts and eats other PSPs. Thats what takes so long.

i read lot of comment, hmmm that make me remember PS vs N64 loading time fight.

i dont think people will ever be completly happy with video games, it seems no matter how good the graphics get, the gameplay is, sound or all together, someones gonna find *something* not too like about it for one reason or another. u have the long load times cause it has to read the dat a off the umd and GBA and DS are CARTRIDGES, which means no moving parts, less load times but less game ( ie, speech, 3d graphics, etc.) so either play ds, gba and have good gameplay for some games ( zelda, pokemon, metroid ) or play your psp wait a little longer, and have that much better of a game.

why is everyone saying: "My psp takes onjy XX seocnds to load". ITS NOT YOUOR PSP, ITS THE GAMES. just because u say ur psp loads fast doessnt make it special. They r all the same thing.. and i like my psp but sometimes u just have to face it "PSP NEEDS BETTER GAMES AND DOESNT HAVE GOOD LOADING TIME"...the only game i actually had fun with no loading problems is Daxter, SF: DR, takken and marvel nemisis and hopefully MKU...

As for racing games, Initial D only takes about 10-15 seconds to load a race.

Not too shabby.

forever, im gonna just lug my ps3 around eveywhere when it comes out.

it takes me a minute to start gta: lcs and my other games!!!

When I play GTA LCS, it only takes about 10-20 seconds to load before you're playing.

well personally i havent had much problem with the waiting period but then again, i havent had the psp for a while and i heard alot of bad comment on Monster hunter, good game, but long waits and pointless quests in game, im trying to find a good PSP RPG, a good point in direction could help you know

peace

I bought my PSP a year ago, I buy a game once every few months usually play them for about a day or two and never pick them up again, the system could be so much better if there were good games on it, and they could cut load times down... also I hate having to plug it in all the time... its portable... why do I have to be stuck to a wall so much, I think I am going to sell it soon. It was just a big waste of money.

I have a DS, and while I haven't spent much time with the PSP, the load times listed do seem a bit large... On the other hand, most of my DS load wtihin 10 seconds....

I love my psp too much to notice load times... you can just stare at it through the whole loading time, its so impressive

My PSP doesn't take that long at all.

ok you people definding the psp, i own both the psp and nintendo DS and i can tell you that the psp is a better system hardware wise, but DS is a better system software wise, plus touch screen =) and just so u know, the psp doesnt have many good games coming out for it, which sucks, it has a couple good games a year, where as DS has 20 or so outstanding games a year, which is why DS sells more units, and makes more money then the psp, but none the less i still own the psp, and i think it does have some great games, grand theft auto liberty city stories, amazing, and with GTA vice city stories coming out, prolly one of the only reasons i kept my psp and didnt sell it, well yea as for load times, psp blows, and all that has to do with the software, that is determined by the developers that make the game, so dont blame sony, or anyone else but the game developer forload times!

Now do a feature about the DS loading times!!!!

To Akruan

Defending a PSP? Hardly. what most of these comments are saying is the load times posted here are extremely judgmental, overstated, and wrong.

And your price structure is also outdated.

This is Garbage.

I own a lot of those games and those number are WAY overstated.
Who on earth did these "tests"?

Don't own Smackdown so can't judge that one,

Maybe you should make your article about the the Updates and DevHook. than scaring people with this crap.

It takes too long

i dont know i have a nfs most wanted it takes secs to load from umd but i dont know now i load my games from the memory stick and it takes secs to load WWE Smack Down! vs. RAW 2006

This article is BS and full of crap, remove it GS and stop being so ****** biased

I don't own a PSP, and load times around five times quicker for the DS makes me cringe at what owning a PSP must be like from those results, as the 25 second avarage for the DS doesn't actually feel that fast when I'm playing DS games. In fact, I grow impatient of how long it takes to get going on Animal Crossing: Wild World. Having timed it myself (total nerd, I know) it was 35 seconds. It seems like ages to me.

There have been a few angry comments... and I don't see why. However incorrect the results may be (and there is a disclaimer before the test stating that this may be the case), calls for foul play are not necessary. In fact, the defensive manner of many comments seems as if the PSP may be vulnerable to tests like this, for whatever reason. It's just a test, and do your own if you're not happy with the one Gamespot has done. You are acting as if they are stating that those are the official load times above. Not for one second do I believe a game takes 4 minutes to load though. The PSP is a powerful piece of kit, so it will naturally take long to load things, but not that long, surely?

I agree... this is an article written with a biased agenda. What crack was the writer on when measuring these load times? Granted, the PSP is slow-loading, and some of the games do take way to long, but I call a major "shennanigans" based on the Tekken load time in the article. It's at least half as much as what is claimed by the article. GameSpot, get your facts straight before posting a BS piece of "research" like this. Remember, crack is whack.

Does this include the introduction to the game? Like how they usually have some sort of movie showing off the characters into the game and whatnot.

make a backup and run it from memory card. it works so much faster and better and now that 4mb card are available you can have a few games on it . but only if on certin firmware

This arcticle is utter bull crap. I got several of the games and they load up ALOT faster then that. It hink the writer is hateful to the psp and does what he cane to make it look like crap. I think we shoudl e-mail gamespot and file protest. and to you babys bellow and above me:

PSP= great graphis mp3 player movies ( I dont buy the umbs to watch movies thats retarded)
DS= Medicore games, innovation, some games are fun but seme kiddy and price. But I'd take my psp over my ds. I got 10 psp games to my 1 ds game. I need to get mario kart ds and star fox command but still the rest dont seem fun.

Of course the psp owners are going to defend their sticky machine. They payed 250$ for a mediocre media player, 100$ for extra memory, 20$ for every movie the could've gotten for less on a DVD and 50$ for every game the could've gotten for less on the PS2. That's a lot of dough dog, you gotta defend that sh*t no matter how crap it is.

Jimbob_007 I totally agree with every aspect of that comment ^_^ Some games are so much fun to play like Syphon filter that it's a definite worth-waiting-for experience.

if PSP have no duo processor, how would it be?

Wow... Smackdown 245sec... and I thought Burnour took long enough...

My kid's PSP beat up your kid's DS.