. The team worked to create a shorter boot animation that would cut the start up time in half. You can see the before and after difference in the above video.The quicker times aren’t reserved for Xbox Series X and S either. Last generation Xbox One consoles are. The one caveat is that most users probably won’t notice the difference unless they keep their consoles in Energy Saver mode or frequently have reason to turn them off.
Still, it’s the kind of incremental upgrade that goes along with the overall speed of the new generation of gaming hardware. Fast load times are nice, but faster home screen startup and navigation is even nicer. Smartphones have trained me to have the attention span of a goldfish, and I deeply appreciate any and all innovations that reduce the friction between me telling a device to do a thing and it actually doing it.
Finally a relevant post on Kotaku. A day late but better than never I guess. Proud of you guys, I know it took a lot of guts to post this.
Yeah, it was really slow before.