The Xbox Series X Can Quick Resume Anytime, Anywhere
Microsoft’s Director of Programming Larry Hryb recently confirmed that the Xbox Series X offers a feature called quick resume, which lets Xbox Series X owners resume games after the console has been rebooted. The Xbox One uses a similar feature to resume games, but the Xbox Series X will be able to resume multiple games from a suspended state whether gamers are rebooting their console, switching games, or resuming from standby. The Xbox Series X is set to release in the holiday season of 2020.
“I had to reboot because I had a system update, and then I went back to the game and went right back to it,” said Larry Hryb during a recent Major Nelson Radio podcast. “So it survives a reboot.” Microsoft’s director of Xbox program management, Jason Ronald also mentioned a feature known as audio ray tracing during the podcast. This new type of audio will apparently add more depth to the audio experience and provides spatial audio for true immersion. Microsoft also recently confirmed that the Xbox Series X will include 12 teraflops of GPU performance, which is apparently twice what’s available in the Xbox One X.
“With the introduction of hardware accelerated ray tracing with the Xbox series X,” said Jason Ronald. “We’re actually able to enable a whole new set of scenarios, whether that’s more realistic lighting, better reflections, we can even use it for things like spatial audio and have ray traced audio.” With this ability to reboot a system and be more immersed in the game that’s using quick resume is a combination of features that make us salivate for the upcoming generation of consoles.
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Source: The Verge