Now, this selling point only works… kind of. Shut down your games on a moment’s notice without worrying about saving. First, this was a selling point for the system. Now, there’s nothing criminal about this. I confirmed this when I contacted Xbox Support on Twitter, where an Xbox Ambassador (the unpaid support staff employed by Microsoft to answer social media questions in an official capacity) told me that “some apps will now close suspended games,” following up later to note that there wasn’t any announcement about this change. It was a big deal when Sony added it, and a big deal when Steam removed it. Companies like Microsoft, Apple, and Google have worked to make rebooting phones and computers a near-instant experience because that boot process is such a drag on productivity and valuable time spent on entertainment. We spend millions of dollars and gigawatts of energy (1.21 gigawatts, roughly) keeping our game consoles in suspended modes to cut out the minutes of waiting to get into games. It’s a feature I’ve used almost daily for the last five years. Right from launch, one of the biggest features of the Xbox One console was the ability to instantly suspend and resume games, saving minutes of loading time each time you wanted to play a game. Microsoft has quietly started allowing apps to close suspended games to capture more memory. It turns out, that’s not a bug it’s a feature. I’d have to reboot them from scratch each time, going through long loading sequences far more often than I remember doing. My suspended Xbox One games kept closing. It’d been bugging me for a few weeks, maybe a month.
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