Will Eliminating Load Times Make a Meaningful Difference? – KeenGamer Podcast Ep. 47

Welcome to the KeenGamer Podcast, KeenGamer’s official podcast! Join David Lozada, Sean Rehbein, and Tommus Gerwin as they talk about the week’s hottest news stories and dissect the latest controversy shaking up the video game industry. In the KeenGamer Podcast Ep. 47, the crew discusses whether or not the elimination of load times will make a meaningful difference in how we play games. The boys also talk about Cyberpunk 2077‘s delay, New Pokemon Snap, Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time, and Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory.

Other topics of conversation include the PlayStation 5’s size, EA’s Play Live event, and Resident Evil 8‘s cancelled ports for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Check out links and timestamps to all of our topics below:

Who is Tommus? (00:00:48)

Housekeeping (00:02:55)

Games We’re Playing:

Tommus (00:03:43): The Last of Us Part 2, Persona 5
Sean (00:09:55): Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Persona 4 Golden
David (00:17:10): The Last of Us Part 2, Uncharted 4

News Stories:

Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed from September 17 to November 19 (00:29:26)

CD Projekt Red has confirmed that a free “more robust” next-gen upgrade for Cyberpunk 2077 will arrive on PS5 and Xbox Series X in 2021 (00:37:34)

Guinness World Records has reinstated a number of classic video game world records held by Billy Mitchell (00:43:08)

A new Pokemon Snap game called New Pokemon Snap is coming to the Nintendo Switch (00:50:21)

Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time will be announced during Monday’s Summer Game Fest Developer Showcase (00:57:03)

It looks like PlayStation 5 is going to be a big console, and the main reason it needs all that space is heat (01:02:12)

Capcom may have cancelled Resident Evil 8’s PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions (01:11:48)

The biggest announcements from EA’s Play Live event (01:21:05)

Square Enix is making a rhythm title appropriately named Kingdom Hearts: Melody of Memory (01:33:06)

Topic of the Show:

Will eliminating load times make a meaningful difference in how we play games? (01:37:31)

Horizon Forbidden West director Mathijs de Jonge says that thanks to the PS5’s SSD there will be “virtually no loading screens” 

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