Where did you read about Konami knowing about these crashes ? I'd love to see the link and see if there is any follow up news about this ?
My PES2010 ( PS3 only problem? ) crashes as usual in the tunnel, but sometimes crashes at the very start where the camera is panning the stadium and the team badges come up. I have had the game crash once during loading ( the bottom corner stars just disappeared and nothing happened ).
I press START as soon as the stadium pan shot comes up, infact for some reason i feel a need to constantly press the start button until the game begins haha. But pressing start does not skip the entire sequence, so it moves from the camera pan, into the tunnel where it crashes again. There is no way to skip the sequence entirely, sadly !
Wish they'd at least update it with an option to turn off cut scenes, maybe that could help ? Well, actually they should fix the damn game we all paid nearly £40 odd, for :realmad: Oh and those fucking Referees whilst they're at it !