Xbox Series X and S Consoles Speeding Up Boot Time With New Update

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Console performance is an important factor for many avid gamers when choosing between different hardware. Modern games continue to grow more and more demanding with each passing years, often requiring tens to even hundreds of gigabytes of storage. With video games becoming grander than ever, the expectation grows from players to see a high-quality experience with a console, both in game and outside of their games. Now, Microsoft has revealed the Xbox developer is making adjustments to the Xbox Series X/S in order to enable faster boot times.

Since the release of the Xbox Series X and S in late 2020, Microsoft has made frequent changes to the consoles to improve performance and make quality-of-life fixes. Xbox recently introduced the ability to instantly switch a TV's input back to the console by pressing the Xbox button on a controller. Microsoft has also added several smaller highly-requested features, like revealing details of secret achievements and installing games from PC. Now, a new update rolled out to Xbox Insiders will reduce startup times on Xbox consoles significantly.

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The newest update to Xbox consoles was first noticed by Xbox Insider members, later being confirmed by Xbox's Director of Integrated Marketing Josh Munsee. Munsee revealed that Xbox had introduced a new boot up animation for Xbox Insiders with a significantly shorter duration. The new animation takes roughly four seconds to play before getting players into the console's home screen, a five-second decrease from the nine-second original version.

Xbox Series X/S consoles were not the only benefactors from the new update as reported by Senior Product Manager Lead Jake Rosenberg. Xbox users on