From IGN's videos of newer builds, the game still suffers from horrible framerate issues. Assuming there's nothing wrong with the videos themselves causing the framerate to drop, i really have to wonder what drugs they're on to claim the framerate has been fixed in their preview... The Japanese demo also still had framerate issues, as did builds shown at TGS and such. The game's visuals have improved a bit and now look a bit better than the PS2 version at the very least, but it still seems to run like crap, a lot choppier than the PS2 version. I'll try out the demo, but i don't intend to buy this. All the real effort still seems to have gone into the HD versions on PS3 and Vita, and you get more games with those. >_>
I'd love to be proven wrong. Though even if it now runs fine, the Vita version would end up being the better deal due to the multiple games it comes packed with. You know, IF you have to have a portable version.