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Mr_No on 03 May 2015
Shinobi-san said:
I think its because of the open world design that the load times become so long when a break in play is needed or an area that's not loaded in memory needs to be loaded instantly.

That's exactly what I thought. That thing happened to me many times on lots of games. When you move away far from the starting area and restart, the game takes its sweet time loading the start area to the memory. Not this long, though.



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Mr.Playstation on 03 May 2015

40s wow that's a long time to wait , it definitely slows down the pace of the game.



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Aeolus451 on 03 May 2015

I hope that it fixed in a day 1 patch or before but honestly, I don't how much that would affect me personally since I like to use ssd in my playstation consoles.



vivster on 03 May 2015

Why are there PS4 load times on a PC game?



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teigaga on 03 May 2015
SvennoJ said:

I guess this will be a trend as the generation goes on. 4 to 16 times the data to load compared to last gen, same speed HDD, no help from the blu-ray drive this time.
Next gen better come with fast SSD drives and SATA 6 GB/s
I know it's not comparable to open world yet those 15 sec load times for DriveClub start looking more and more incredible.

I don't remember dying a lot in the Witcher 2, so it shouldn't be a problem.


Theres no reason why the PS4/X1 slim can't come with faster HDDs aswell. Would be a nice selling point similar to the N3DS



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Shinobi-san on 03 May 2015
Mr_No said:
Shinobi-san said:
I think its because of the open world design that the load times become so long when a break in play is needed or an area that's not loaded in memory needs to be loaded instantly.

That's exactly what I thought. That thing happened to me many times on lots of games. When you move away far from the starting area and restart, the game takes its sweet time loading the start area to the memory. Not this long, though.

I think its because of how massive and detailed the Witcher 3 is that the load time will be so long. Once you in the game you probably wont see another loading screen, and thats pretty impressive too.



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Shinobi-san on 03 May 2015
SvennoJ said:

I guess this will be a trend as the generation goes on. 4 to 16 times the data to load compared to last gen, same speed HDD, no help from the blu-ray drive this time.
Next gen better come with fast SSD drives and SATA 6 GB/s
I know it's not comparable to open world yet those 15 sec load times for DriveClub start looking more and more incredible.

I don't remember dying a lot in the Witcher 2, so it shouldn't be a problem.


Costs will need to increase though, I'm not sure how they will add a SSD and keep the cost of the console in that $400 - $500 range.



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Ultrashroomz on 03 May 2015

Great, it's like Bloodborne all over again.

Hopefully, a patch comes along to resolve this.



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daredevil.shark on 03 May 2015

I need a SSD for my PS4.



Ultrashroomz on 03 May 2015

I guess to also add to my thoughts, considering how big this game is, I guess I'm not too surprised.

I'd be impressed if they somehow managed short loading screens.



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