load times on technabob...

Check out this video clip of some of the horrifically painful load times for the new Sonic the Hedgehog game, running on the Xbox 360.

Not only are the load times terrible, the shear quantity of load screens that occur to complete even a simple task are ridiculous. What the hell was Sega thinking releasing a game in this condition?..

While using a small amount of hard disk space to cache a portion of game content is a trick long used by the Xbox 360 and pretty much all PC games, it’s been revealed that some PS3 games would be using a very significant portion of the console’s hard drive to speed performance…