I thought it would be cool to talk about some games for a change.

So, I have preordered Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed and played some of the game with a friend on his PS3. One thing that really upsets me are the long loading times the game has before every single race. So I did some investigating and found that the Wii U Version of the game has significantly lower loading times.

360 footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqsv92fE9aQ

Wii U footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzVwqd4Bp7c

From one blackscreen to the other, the Wii U version needs about 11 seconds to load (0:11-0:22) while the 360 version needs about 24 seconds (3:20-3:44). 

Now the comparison is between 2 different modes (race vs. boost rush) but I don't think that the result is too heavily skewed due to this. But maybe I'm wrong. I for one am pleased with this, although 11 seconds is still a little much for my taste. What do you think?

It has more ram..

much more RAM so that should be obvious.

It's BluRay drive is faster than PS3's BluRay drive.

A good port!? How dare you say something like that. We all know third parties make lazy games for the Wii U

More RAM and a faster disc drive should also help with texture pop in and yet other multiplat games have managed to fuck this up. I just have a hard time right now to take things for granted that SHOULD obviously be better.

I still find it incredible nintendo fans are actually gloating over a console that is so far showing to be slightly more powerful than the 360....... when the 360 is 7 years going onto 8 years old..

Yes, a BluRay drive.

that doesn't play blu ray discs..

The WiiU's Discs aren't blu-ray. They're just WiiU proprietary discs and they have a read speed of 22.5MB/s. PS3's blu-rays are 9MB/s. Xbox360 varies from 7-15MB/s depending on number of layers and disc drive. Fast load times are to be expected with Nintendo consoles. That's one thing they've always tried to keep down.