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Xbox Series X 'Quick Resume' Retains Around 12 BC Games on Average
- Thread starter Gareth
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It copies across the contents of RAM right? And we can assume there is a certain amount of the SSD reserved for these save states. A Series X game uses up to 13.5GB of RAM, an Xbox One game uses up to 5/ 9GB of RAM (S vs X) and a 360 game uses up 512MB. So if it can hold 3-4 Series X games then it can hold a few more Xbox one games and a shit load of 360 games.
sea of thieves is always-online right? that might mess things up.
To be fair, these loading times should be gone, no matter if you do a fresh launch of the game or if you resume from a suspend state.
You can't switch with Sea of Thieves, after some time AFK the game kicks you out
Didn't MS say a specific number for next gen quick resume games when they briefly showed it off earlier this year? I thought they said 5. Why would it be variable now?
/edit: I was thinking about this video:
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They didn't say a number and only showed current gen games... I was thinking of the list of five games in the UI and thought that was the limit.
/edit: I was thinking about this video:
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They didn't say a number and only showed current gen games... I was thinking of the list of five games in the UI and thought that was the limit.
You've always been able to get around it using rest mode (unless you play online)
Mentioned this in the other thread, but apparently this is a huge feature exclusive to Xbox Series. Not even PC has this kind of feature yet, and until announced, it's doubtful PS5 does too. Hopefully this starts to make it a norm though?
I'm the type to hop around many games, so this will be SUPER nice to have.
I'm the type to hop around many games, so this will be SUPER nice to have.
What happens when you hit the limit? Do you get a warning, or does it just silently drop the last game state (or least used?)?
I wonder how it visually represents this. (When it reaches the limit, and if there is an option to clear this.)
Does it 'wear out' the drive somehow, or not since it is not mechanical?
Does it 'wear out' the drive somehow, or not since it is not mechanical?
Wow! Damn, I was expecting around 4 and still thought that was awesome.
I doubt I'll ever use more then 3 or so either, but it's nice that you don't have to worry about it all. If it was more limited it would kind of defeat the point if you were regularly thinking "Oh wait, will suspending this end one of the other games I have on Quick Resume?"
I doubt I'll ever use more then 3 or so either, but it's nice that you don't have to worry about it all. If it was more limited it would kind of defeat the point if you were regularly thinking "Oh wait, will suspending this end one of the other games I have on Quick Resume?"
This is one area that console has a really nice advantage over PC next gen, very impressive even if I'm not sure it'll be all that useful for my own personal playing style.
Slightly OT regarding PS5: Has Sony confirmed if we can quick resume BC games on PS5 too or just new gen games?
Slightly OT regarding PS5: Has Sony confirmed if we can quick resume BC games on PS5 too or just new gen games?
That's fucking awesome. Most Series and PS5 buyers are going to be playing a ton of BC games for the first year or two and especially Game Pass members. 😉
Yeah, that part sounds great... I would just need to stop doing what I've trained myself to do for years now, which is make sure I've saved and quitted out properly so there is no chance of anything getting lost. lol
My comment was more to do with having multiple games in saves states and jumping between them, again I'm probably stuck in my old ways but I usually play 1 story based game at a time and even if I were playing another title alongside it I can't see myself switching between the two mid play as I feel that would just be disruptive to my experience.
The multiple people using the system is a interesting point that I never thought about, good shout.
Pretty insane, I'll never hit that many on purpose but I love that I don't have to think about it.
PS4 already had a resume feature single game at the time. So it should have something similar in PS5.
The first sentence says the minimum for next gen games should be 3-4. I've edited my post but I'm still wondering why that number would be variable. You'd think they would lock that down to a fixed number per generation.
It would be cool if they asked you what suspended game you wanted to "kick" if you reached the limit and wanted to suspend another game.
Haven't confirmed it but we assume it can, they've been so tight lipped we don't even know how much BC games take advantage of ps5 at all, do they even load much faster for example? They should but we want to know.
Sea of Thrives confirmed does not work with this. The game will load faster though!
This could be a great way of seeing the progression from each entry.
That's genuinely pretty fucking great. I'd kill for something like this on PC, amount of times I'll be playing one game, hop into another with friends (after I've made them wait while I finish what I'm doing and can save), then go back to my old one once we're done that I've got to boot up from start. Quick resume would be so good there.