Why isn't streaming used more predominantly in GC/PS2 games?

[AlNom]

Yeah, I can really hear the HD doing some work when I load up DOA3. After about a few minutes it seems to stop and every level loads in about 2 seconds.

It seems quite slow though when displaying the characters in the character select screen (only at first I think).



Question about Max Payne 2... whenever there's a cut scene during the level and you skip it, it goes to a sort of loading screen... is that loading the next part of the level or something? I've never seen anything like it before.

 

[Tagrineth]

Question about Max Payne 2... whenever there's a cut scene during the level and you skip it, it goes to a sort of loading screen... is that loading the next part of the level or something? I've never seen anything like it before.

It's probably the same as what Eternal Darkness on GC does... it pre-loads the next area little by little as the cinematic progresses, so that by the end of the cinematic, the next area will already be in RAM - but, if you skip the scene, you have to sit through the rest of the (now accelerated) load anyway.