We already knew about Quick Resume -- the feature that allows you to resume multiple games on Xbox Series X without losing progress -- but today, we've been treated to more details on the feature courtesy of Eurogamer's Digital Foundry. At its core, it'll support a minimum of three games at once, with potential for more.
Microsoft have also released a video (which you can see above) showcasing Forza Motorsport 7, Ori and the Blind Forest, State of Decay 2, Hellblade, and The Cave (an Xbox 360 game) all running at once. The feature will require just a few seconds of loading between each game, and if you're playing games that demand less memory, it's assumed you could theoretically stack up more games as part of the Quick Resume feature.
All of this is possible due to the 1TB Solid State Drive included as part of the console, which caches system RAM every time you leave a game. We don't yet know the size of the cache available to Quick Resume titles, but it's guaranteed that Quick Resume will support a minimum of three Xbox Series X games at once.
Are you excited for Quick Resume? Let us know your plans for the feature in the comments below.
[source eurogamer.net, via youtu.be]
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To be honest, its a feature that I don't think will matter to me at all. I play 1 game at a time and don't want to jump back and forth. I also buy on disc so would have to keep swapping discs...
If others like/want it - great - but I can't see it being of any use to me...
It's things like this that mean I will probably go digital next gen.
@TheNewButler Nothing wrong with having features that you don't or won't get the benefit of - its still a choice. I prefer to own physical media and whilst that may not benefit from this feature, even if I were to move to Digital only, I would choose not to use it - I don't use the quick boot-up on XB1 and prefer to switch off fully. I tend to play a game for the duration of my time, not constantly chopping and changing too so I cannot see myself utilising this feature at all.
At the end of the day its better to have and not need than need and not have. If just 1% use it, that's still a worthwhile addition as it doesn't have a negative impact on those who don't. Its not like having to pick between this feature or backwards compatibility for example...
Eh, not that big of a deal. Nice feature, though.
Honestly who plays 3 games at the same time??? This just seems like an unneeded feature.
@Tasuki think about rest mode now and how we may have thought that to be unnecessary. You might not be playing all these games the same day but how convenient is it to just choose a game to play and be instantly at the point you last played?
Ordinarily I buy all games physically so on any other console, it wouldn't mean much.
But with Gamepass, it makes all the difference to me.
Most of my games will be from the service and will be downloaded (obviously) which means I can chop and change in a flash, lovely.
@carlos82 They have that now, it's called a save point.
@Tasuki true but this works anywhere and save points don't depending upon the game
This sounds fantastic. I’d love to easily switch between A couple games at once. That’s an especially nice feature if you like to play online with friends as you could jump to that game quickly rather than waiting to save your current game and then closing and opening the New game.
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