Was curious if there was a reason for the split? Also was wondering why loads are left in for console if they're accounted for in PC?

Loads in console are consistent and so have been left in. Loads on PC vary quite a bit depending on PC. Another reason for the split is there are a couple of tricks that work on PC but not console. (The car reset back to sewers entrance is a big one).

Interestingly enough there are also some difference between N America and European console releases (the main one being you can’t grab the ledge to climb up to the first dynamite in police station on European console version) but it felt like that was enough separating by that point.

They seemed to do updates for every release roll out and left the current release versions as is which is odd.

I was seeing a lot of variation in load times comparing between xbox/playstation/switch. Just the first three load screens alone load could vary from slowest to fastest by up to 20 seconds per load. So over a full run, assuming the rest follow suit, that'd be a huge difference.

From what I could tell it was looking like xbox (series x was the playthrough I was looking at) loaded fastest, followed by ps5/switch (surprisingly, switch loaded relatively quickly), then ps4 coming in last. I'd assume xboxone would be close to ps4 maybe?

I'll try and throw a quick comparisons video together. That's interesting about the N. American & European console/version differences.

Whenever Hitfilm decides it wants to work and export the video, I'll add it here. Maybe having 6 playthroughs going at the same time is a bit much. Until then, the time differences for the first three loads are looking like :

Initial load xbox series x - fastest ps5 - 6.3/6.4 seconds slower switch - 2.3 seconds slower ps4 - 8.7 seconds slower

Second load after cutscene xbox series x - fastest ps5 - 15.5/15.6 seconds slower switch - 19.3/19.5 seconds slower ps4 - 20.3 seconds slower

Load going into sewer xbox series x - fastest ps5 - 11.4/11.9 seconds slower switch - 9.2 seconds slower ps4 - 14.8 seconds slower