Xbox Series X Now Reportedly Uses Less Energy In 'Instant On' Mode

I didn't want to keep the system on always so o don't use it, I did change the settings that the system will turn off after 4 hours vs the 1 hour standard i believe. I haven't had any game show me it's over 4 hours to download as of yet. If I do I'll switch it over perhaps bit for now there's no need for instant on in my life. Remember that reduce is the first R in the 3R's.

Reduce, re-use and only then recycle.

This PSA is brought to you by a guy sitting on the porcelain throne at the moment.

With great power come big electricity bills! Joking aside, I always keep my XSX in instant-on mode so this is welcome news.

It was useful on Xbox One but Series X boots up so fast that it's not needed. Quick Resume (doesn't need instant-on mode) is also much more helpful than I expected, allowing you to continue your gaming session instantly and not paying much attention to checkpoints. That, Game Pass and the performance boost for older games makes Series X the best console I've had.

It’s a joke the little energy that will save.
When massive cities, office blocks, bill boards, car show rooms etc etc are lit up 24/7 even when nearly everyone is in bed.

@AJDarkstar

For once, we completely agree. I also rarely use “Instant-On”, but I just used it last night to download all of the Rare Replay games, Killer Instinct, & Sea Of Thieves.

But like you said, going into the settings just to do it is clunky.

Whoah, the fan doesn't run 24/7 now?! That wasn't in the patch notes! I stopped using instant-on expressly because of that!

I never close a running game before going into instant-on. I'd like to see an option to use quick resume instead of memory suspend for teh game if doing instant. PS5 needs to use memory suspend like the old consoles did, but XSXS could take advantage of quick resume. But I might start using instant-on again if it's not running the fan. I haven't been using it, so I didn't even notice!

OTOH, XSX boots so fast there's hardly even a need for instant on anymore. But I do find a lot of downloads and updates getting cut off if I don't leave it ready to update. And of course the OS patch itself I ended up manually downloading and installing rather than it just being magically up to date. It's kind of nice having the machine really more or less off, though.

@NEStalgia yeah there really isn’t a need for Instant On unless you like me and want to stream your console :/ but with Xmas lights taking so much juice I’ve been power striping it off as well.

@mousieone What the heck kind if Christmas lights do you have that you're competing over a console with a 300w or so psu??

I'm picturing vintage incandescent C9s....Or the Griswold home

And i thought I was a menace with lights!

But yeah i probably will take up console streaming at some point, it may become useful... And the darned updates should be automated. If the fan is really off, i may well use instant on again. Ps5 is on rest, if only because it lacks quick resume. But i swear xsx boots from eco to in-game from qr faster than x1x booted in instant on. Xsx instant on is more like Switch or a phone... No real value since the screen takes longer to handshake than the console resumes!

@NEStalgia I don’t think the fan is off completely the system is still slightly warm again I only know because my room is cold so I can feel the ever so slight difference in temp but is not as great at all. Not even close. But I can’t hear anything so I don’t know what they did but it’s a big change.

There are at least 600 lights on the main tree and another 300 on the three little ones altogether. Also another 300 in the main den. I know the power bill will be up already with that; we don’t need an always on console as well.

@NEStalgia actually I think there is more than 600 on the main tree we used 6 stripes of 100+ 1 strip of 300 oh yeah 900 lights on the main tree my bad.

@mousieone the x1x used to be pretty warm when in instant on, but it never ran the fan. Ps4 launch ran the fan, people complained and they eventually fixed it and it stopped running the fan 24/4. I was shocked when I realized xsx was still running the fan. I'll have to give it a try and see if i see the fan spinning at all. The lower power use matters, and I'd rather it not be warm as x1x, but the fan was the deal breaker.

1000 isn't so bad as long as they're led? I remember the days as a kid of the actual incandescent c9s stapled to the house.... Probably 400 medium light bulbs..... In retrospect you could probably watch the dial on the power meter spin in real time.... And people don't staple lights to the house anymore.... It was festive though!

@NEStalgia pretty sure they are not LED. If you don’t hear from me at some point, you’ll no why.

I don’t mind the not stapling it the house as I like the moving yard characters best but please don’t do that either :c

@mousieone lol, if they're not led, then yeah.... Adding an SNES will probably trip the breaker, let alone the XSX!

Mines all led, even the c9s, but they cost a fortune up front. Almost free to run them through. Which I'm sure people appreciate come February . Winter sucks... Needs some lighting.

I tried the moving yard characters but the weather here is so hostile for them... They end up glassed under ice, breaking motors, and the inflatables end up in weird ice-welded positions that are equal parts funny and sad looking. And that doesn't factor in the random 50+mph wind days. So i went back to just the lights. Not as elaborate as i used to do, but the lights cost more and are a lot brighter

@NEStalgia hmm we don’t get snow like that as often. We do get snow and cold ._. And ice rain lots of ice rain <.< and cold :/ I hate winter.

Anyway the moving yard object do mostly okay here unless it’s a particularly bad winter. But considering we can get wildfire until December around, Snow usually lands in Jan or Feb.

@mousieone oof, wild fires...i hate the weather here, but that's a whole other thing over in the west. I'm convinced no place in the us has tolerable weather.

And Ice storms are a special evil of winter. Snow and cold are bad, but the sheer destruction of ice storms rivals hurricanes. I've developed a sort of paranoia about those!

Every year I'm convinced i want to move to Florida. Then hurricane season reminds me not to do that.