First of all, thanks to Icewave for the PS4 footage used in this video!

Info about the hardware used in this test: The PC used has a Ryzen 3900x, 32gb ram, and an m2 NVMe SSD with a read speed of 2000 MB/s. The PS4 and Xbox Series S are stock consoles without any modifications.

The final stats you see at the end of the video corresponds to the loading time for the cutscene you see after selecting mission 2, then the loading time you see when pressing "start mission," and finally, the total loading time spent between the title screen and first frame of gameplay.

Unfortunately, I'm not the richest person in the world, so I was limited to what platforms I could do this test with. It would have been interesting to throw in the PS5 or the stock version of DMC5 on XSS, but alas, I am not made out of money. But still, I imagine PS5 would be in the ballpark of the XSS loading time. And Xbox Series X would be almost identical to XSS's loading times considering it uses the same SSD and its CPU speed is only slightly faster (it does have a much more powerful GPU, but that's not very relevant when it comes to loading times).

One thing which is difficult to control is the harddrive cache Windows maintains. If you boot up DMC5 once then quit the game and boot it up again, you'll notice it's a lot faster to boot up. This is because the game would have read a lot of the same data from a cache in memory rather than the harddrive. And actually, the loading times can vary quite by quite a lot if you keep repeating the same benchmark as it seems almost random how much data is cached.

I suspect the Xbox might be doing something similar as it was about 10 seconds slower if I did the same test from a cold boot. I wasn't sure how to handle this for this comparison. Considering it is fiddly to always restart the PC before doing a recording (in an attempt to minimize the cache), since this test isn't super exhaustive anyway (it's only 3 platforms), and since it's probably nice to try to show all the hardware in their best light, the footage shown in the video was recorded after booting up the game once (I haven't tested if PS4 maintains this kind of harddrive cache).

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