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The PSP may look sleek but a preliminary hands-on @ lik-sang.com shows the device takes an exorbitant amout of time to load titles. They’re saying 30+ seconds from power-on until you’re actually playing - that’s a lotta freakin’ time.

From lik-sang.com:

Loading Times

Loading time and battery life seem to be the big factors which decide about the PSPs success or failure in many gamers eyes right now. While we can’t comment on the battery life as of yet, latest reports from Japan about loading times on demo units that actually have access to the games are as follows:

Ridge Racers:

• From power off to Namco logo and title: 16 seconds
• From selecting car/track to start the race: 14 seconds
• Exit the game back to car/track selection: 10 seconds

Dokodemo Issho:

• From power off to PSP logo and title: 20 seconds
• Starting game from title screen: 10 seconds
• Going back to title screen: 5 seconds

They hope that it’s due to testing a prelease unit (the final product may fix this issue?) but uh, usually things like load-times are hardware specific. Having worked with embedded devices I’m SURE the giant corporation Sony nailed down their hardware a long, long time ago.

Yikes. *Shrug* Oh well. Heh.