It depends on why it’s slow. Games are complicated software, and some times compromises made in the base architecture can cause issues when porting to untested hardware.
The transfer speeds of the game cartridge is slower than installing to internal storage or even the new MicroSD Express cards. That’s a Nintendo fuckup but Ubisoft could have taken this into account and either reduce the size of data to stream or mask loading somehow (that’s why I mentioned the doors in Metroid Prime).
If you look at the 3rd party games landscape on S2, it’s clear that publishers don’t want to pay for the full storage on retail cartridges. Ubisoft are just the first to use the Nintendo fuckup as convenient excuse.
Hiding the loads would require them to redesign the game.
What I wonder is why they don’t copy the game from the cartridge on first load - that’s what they do on PS5 and Xbox Series X because the optical drive is also too slow.
Hiding the loads would require them to redesign the game.
And that’s why I pointed to Doom 2016 where the porting team placed a wall here and there to reduce the the amount of stuff that needs to be loaded and rendered. There are ways if Ubisoft was willing to but they rather keep the money than to spend it on retail storage.
It depends on why it’s slow. Games are complicated software, and some times compromises made in the base architecture can cause issues when porting to untested hardware.
The transfer speeds of the game cartridge is slower than installing to internal storage or even the new MicroSD Express cards. That’s a Nintendo fuckup but Ubisoft could have taken this into account and either reduce the size of data to stream or mask loading somehow (that’s why I mentioned the doors in Metroid Prime).
If you look at the 3rd party games landscape on S2, it’s clear that publishers don’t want to pay for the full storage on retail cartridges. Ubisoft are just the first to use the Nintendo fuckup as convenient excuse.
Hiding the loads would require them to redesign the game.
What I wonder is why they don’t copy the game from the cartridge on first load - that’s what they do on PS5 and Xbox Series X because the optical drive is also too slow.
And that’s why I pointed to Doom 2016 where the porting team placed a wall here and there to reduce the the amount of stuff that needs to be loaded and rendered. There are ways if Ubisoft was willing to but they rather keep the money than to spend it on retail storage.