In a welcome reminder that we aren't alone in the world, it appears the PlayStation faithful are evenly divided on the subject of Rest Mode.
About 50% opt to power down partially after each gaming session, with the rest choosing to cut the connection completely. Getting lost in the weeds during a recent conversation with Game File (thanks, IGN), ostensibly about PS5's Welcome Hub feature, Sony Interactive Entertainment's VP of game, product, and player experience, Cory Gasaway, revealed the divide that exists within our community.
Gasaway is speaking about U.S. PS5 owners specifically, but we imagine the same behaviours are bound to occur wherever PlayStation fans congregate: «We gained a lot of insights about how players interact with their PS5 system between play sessions.
A small example is we had an internal hypothesis that far more people would put their console into Rest Mode than fully shut it down each time between their play sessions.
It turned out it was about 50/50 between the two options for all our players. So, what that meant was for about 50% of our users, when they booted up, if they were in the US, they were landing on our Explore page.