How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard load faster

Re:How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard lo... by hot_gril on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @02:14AM (#34335940)

> At the same time I don’t think there’s anything preventing you from ignoring 90% of a console and just launching disc-based games.

It takes longer to run the game ever since the 360/PS3/Wii gen, and the 360 is notoriously annoying about user sign-in, and there's that center button you accidentally press mid-game to bring up the hub. Wii has probably the worst dashboard cause you need to set up the IR transmitter and Wiimote to get past it even for games that only use GC controllers.

I get the media center thing as a selling point for other people. I just have never used a game console for things besides games.

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Re:How Microsoft attempted to make the Xbox 360 dashboard lo... by doublepg23 on Thursday January 12, 2023 @10:45AM (#34355209)

It’s certainly slower but in absolute terms it still only take tens of seconds on a cold boot.

When sleeping (how most people use the console) it’s practically as fast, especially with Instant Resume on the Series X/S.

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