So about the same as having an SSD on One X and PS4 Pro. But that was no surprise considering there are no optimizations yet.
Does the game still drop to a single digit framerate every time you pause or check the map though?
That is legit for real. Hoping the 5 has similar improvements. Exciting times
I dont think PS5 will have that on BC. if it does that is insane. You could believe it for both systems on games that take more advantage of the architecture.
Doesn't seem impressive to me and then people quote me then I respond. What's your beef?
We'll know when we actually see tech breakdowns for PS5. Any day now.
I'd love to see Mass Effect 2/3 tested. I sat with my brother as he played through those on the 360, after he watched me plat on PC. We clocked his load times after death in part 3 around 1 minute 45 seconds. He was getting massively irritated after having seen me load in under 10 seconds.
These Xbox series x load times you're seeing here are just backwards compatible games, without any patches at all.
The more instant load times, I assume, will be there for games developed specifically for the new systems.
This is so nice to see. I'm mainly excited about how SSDs impact in-game menus. This may seem wild to PC players, but simply bringing up the menu in Destiny 2 or Red Dead Online can feel like an eternity while you're in combat. Watching PC footage of Destiny 2 makes me jealous, as (and this is an overstatement, but honestly not by much) it seems like a PC player can go into their Inventory, change gear and get back into the fight before a console player's Inventory fucking loads.
I would love to see some more footage of travelling between the zones. Cutting the main load down to sub 10 seconds is beautiful!
Same, but i think it's fair to say it'll be fast. Character menu to hub was often one of the longer ones so i have high hope!
Pretty sure that's what most people are doing at this point, since we're having another somewhat anemic launch window. I'd like to play Spider-Man: MM and I'm looking forward to The Ascent, but I'm really somewhat lukewarm on both of those. Playing current-gen stuff like RDR2/TLOU2/Cyberpunk 2077/etc with improved performance and (perhaps eventually) graphics is much more appealing at this point in time.
I bought my first SSD in 2009. I couldn't play on consoles since then due to the abysmal loading times and it was always funny how I can never read loading screens on PC, it's too fast. Funny how this is big news now, over a decade later, but good anyway. One more bottleneck of consoles closed. Makes sense, since they are now mostly indistuingishable from PC architecture anyway.
Serious question: Why are the loading times of RDR2 in IGN's video 1:04 but The Verge tested it at 0:52? How can there be a difference of 14 seconds?
But, what about people on submarines?!?! :P
Loading different zone?
Storage speed is not the only bottleneck for game loading, the CPU still needs to initialize all the NPCs, scripts, dynamic objects in the enviroment, handle the level load, initialize player, etc.
Nice improvements! I compared a little bit to Stadia (only games in that list in the OP that they share are FFXV, RDR2, and Destiny 2).
Destiny 2, loading a planet:
XSX: 30 seconds
Stadia: 30 seconds...if after loading your character. It takes around 50 seconds if you're already on a planet and going to another one...so not sure exactly what they were doing for their comparison or if it's the same across the board for Series X.
RDR2, resuming your game:
XSX: 38 seconds
Stadia: 24 seconds
FFXV, resuming your game:
XSX: 13 seconds
Stadia: 21 seconds
Destiny 2, loading a planet:
XSX: 30 seconds
Stadia: 30 seconds...if after loading your character. It takes around 50 seconds if you're already on a planet and going to another one...so not sure exactly what they were doing for their comparison or if it's the same across the board for Series X.
RDR2, resuming your game:
XSX: 38 seconds
Stadia: 24 seconds
FFXV, resuming your game:
XSX: 13 seconds
Stadia: 21 seconds
When Stadia first launched that was what I tried to explain here lol. The almost non existent load times make it a new game.Me after seeing the Destiny 2 load times.
I let me Pro sub expire and tried to play via xCloud on Sept 22...and let's just say I am at peace with waiting until my Series X arrives in November to play again
what in the world?from The Verge
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is this the nonsense you console players have been accepting? never in my 2,000+ hours in this game have I seen a loading spinner for the character menu on PC.
On the SSD? No, they are not. SSD are wonderful for loading, streaming data and level designs. This are just BC games, calm down until you experience optimized games on your console at home.
The demo showed fast travel, which has most assets already loaded.
Sony is claiming almost instant loadtimes on optimized games. Not BC games.
yeah this is beyond horrendous, I didn't realize shit was that bad
Series X games will be able to take advantage of DirectStorage which is designed to load in data more quickly.
Ah okay didn't know that. What kind of difference are we expecting from that? I thought the big deal was the speed of the SSD.