Regardless, this is something that Sony has perfected over the years. Making players wait to play their game and suffer for daring to hit the reset button is something Sony pioneered. Pre PS1 getting into a game was as simple as hitting Power and pressing any button, maybe twice. It’s the PS1 that introduced gaming to these theatrical start ups that include 5-6 company logo’s before we even see the title screen. Today this nonsense is commonplace and accepted, people seem to think somethings missing without them. I ask myself why I need to see the Subway logo before I can play my game because someone at the office got a free sub one day when buying lunch for his coworkers.

Demon’s Souls, un-ironically a PS3 exclusive, is perhaps the worst offender I’ve ever seen in this regard. A week of playing that game with give you enough time during start up to read War and Peace. All in all a very good game but leave the credits for the end kthanksbye.

At the very least, the games that require patches, like Mario Kart 7, didn’t require me to wait for forty minutes to download it, and it was only 40 blocks too.

Consoles are getting the worse of both worlds.

I’ve been tempted to do this for some of the games I transferred over from my DSi, but I really don’t think I can stomach another hour of Zenonia.

But I get it – you’re just bummed out that the game didn’t rely on scattering a bunch of holes/caves/grottos to uncover throughout the world to consume your time and play the beloved “unlocking” jingle over and over.

Maybe fans should ask Nintendo to rehash Ocarina of Time a third time to remedy the issue.