Whilst I agree with MrDouglas, but then, when it was first released, there weren't many games, and at the time loading times may've been just been thought to have been down to developers getting used to the hardware, its only after this amount of time can the loading times be fully taken as fact.
I don't have a PSP, but I am very familar with them. And to be honest a game taking over a minute to load seems pathetic compared to being in a race on Mario Kart DS with 30 seconds of turning the console on. Sure the loading times are there because there's more to load. But on a handheld do you really want to have to plan around playing a game? Tony Hawks takes 2 minutes on the PSP! TWO minutes?! Okay, you expect that from a home console, but if you're on a train, do you really want to be satring blankly at a big shiny screen while a little bar slowly moves across the bottom of it? In the time it takes to get into a PSP game running and in-game i could've done a lap or two on MKDS, or be in the thick of a Tetris game. The times my mates have handed me a PSP to "have a go of this, and you'll be impressed" before i have to endure the infamous loading screen, before being faced with a game that suffers from a clicky jerky controller, on an uncomfortable piece of tat. Sorry if this is turning into a general rant, but the game disks themselves, these "universal" media disks, are small yes. but they are also CDs, and CDs are not reknowned for practical durability, sure most of the thing is covered by a plastic sheet, as though damaging the uncovered part won't have a negative effect anyway. And after having to make massive room for your "portable" device and its "universal" disks, and after sliding them into a flimsey disk storage space on the PSP, that sounds like its going to shatter whenever it flicks open, you've then got to endure the agony of loading times, before realising that the two games you can fit into your pocket sized disk carrier aren't actually very good, before realising that the console you spent £180+ doesn't actually have any decent titles that you haven't already played to death on your PS2.
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