Xbox Series X|S Quick Resume Works Even After Unplugging The Console

The most powerful next gen XSX and best value XSS consoles just keep getting better. Roll on 10th November for my XSX.

Must admit this is pretty cool. Suspend mode this gen is my favourite thing but this is next level stuff!!

Excited about this feature. Over the last few weeks I've been playing a single-player game, then when my buddy jumps on we'll play Wasteland 3, then when the next one comes on we jump to 76. Quick resume across those games will be very nice.

I just hope the games handle it well. My Witcher 3 really didn't like being quick resumed after being in standby, it wouldn't save

Wait...what? Even if I unplug it it will still “quick resume” my game(s)? Damn that’s cool af 👍

@graysoncharles do you know if it works when using physical games, ie discs? Eg: can I take a game disc out and still leave that game in a “quick resume” state when putting in another game disc?

This quick resume feature may be my most looked forward too. Sounds awesome. A little cyberpunk, then a homie hops on for some DRG, then I go back to cyberpunk, then yakuza?!? Picking up where i left off? Gaming overload!

This feature is really the whole world right here. Screw the GPUs and CPUs, this is what next gen gaming is all about. POWER YOUR IMPATIENCE

I do assume PS5 is getting this feature as well. At least I hope so. Seems silly for the machine with the even better SSD to skip such an obvious feature.

That's some next level ***** right there.

@AJDarkstar It's still a big deal. Loading the game is only part of the lost time. Then there's mandatory logo screens, main menu, load save, and getting back to where you were from a checkpoint vs just turn it on and there it is wherever you paused it. (And not having to "get to a save point" first.). 50gb i presume for XSeX for the 5 images.

This is great news, as I'm tempted to shift the console around different rooms at times. It's going to be a really good feature. Cannot wait to release date !

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Will be interesting to see if PS5 has something similar, but they've not shown anything of the OS yet, so who knows.

@blinx01 If there's one thing Sony is traditionally great at, it's copying whatever everyone else is doing. If they don't have the feature at launch, they'll have it eventually because XBox does, and then they'll talk about how they have the first truly instant resume feature ever due to the brilliance of the custom SSD controller.... And it will technically be true, conveniently masking they just copied someone else's feature.

Then again it took them like a year and a half to implement the suspend state they advertised at PS4 reveal while X1 added it in the first update a few months in.

@AJDarkstar Fair enough. For me, 3DS and Vita made me love suspend for one game. Suspend for one game was my single most desired feature last gen, and while it's kind of wonky with the memory suspend state, at least it works and is far better than nothing. I'm positively giddy for multiple instant suspend states - finally a feature that makes a console more convenient even than a handheld!

@AJDarkstar I'm curious how you can play Switch and only "occasionally" suspend a game. It's suspended every time you put it down if you're not switching games. Switch more than a tethered console I'll suspend multiple times an hour just by its nature! Recently due to ACNH I've been switching games a lot (that load screen...) so I'm losing some of that convenience. But otherwise I'd put a game in and it would be in a suspend state for weeks and months at various places.

For the big consoles, you're probably having longer sessions so it may be of less utility depending on how you play, at least with the current gen, but since it covers switching games, that's a big improvement even over Switch. Remember it's not just "boot" time into the game, it's the forced wait time on logo screens/intro animations many games have before you can even load your save, and then backtracking to wherever you were rolled back from where you left off.

And it's not just the resume portion. It means you can put your game down just before a boss battle or some such event and not be beholding to "let me just finish this" before walking away or switching games, saving it for another day.

That's one thing with games like Elder Scrolls that always let you just save in place wherever you are that used to be common among PC games and seems to have vanished entirely from the gaming landscape that I missed. This kind of forces it back in at a hardware level (but minus load/logo screens!)

That said, even for just one game, I already used it heavily on the current consoles, so if you didn't you may have different play habits that don't benefit as much from it.

@AJDarkstar I've been doing a similar routine on switch. I think of this feature every time I have to wait for that internal acnh load screen! Mario 3das loads super fast though, so yeah no real advantage there. Then again sunshine makes you walk back from the plaza...

Edit: and i always use quick start/rest mode. It's the way the console war designed to be run, and auto updates, push downloads, remote play (or whatever ms calls it) don't work without it, do suspend is automatic. You have more patience than I SQUIRREL!