Microsoft is reducing the boot time of the Xbox Series X/S consoles

The Xbox Series S/X consoles are Microsoft’s claim to fame with how quickly they can boot into games or resume sessions when coming back to them. Both consoles are fantastic with the series X taking the (winning) cake, hands down. They also bounce quickly right into the dashboard when turned on if you don’t have them set to shut down completely (making sure that Standby Mode is enabled for background updates, faster boot, etc).

However, if you do have it set to shut down completely every time (Energy Saver Mode), the boot process isn’t so quick. You do have to wait a little longer for everything to boot and for the console to reach the dashboard. It’s not bad (literally seconds), but it is noticeable and Microsoft is working on an update that will shave off about 5 seconds. You wouldn’t believe what the culprit is, though.

You’d think an update like this is doing something on the back end to speed things up. Or that a lot of the bootup is the intense operating system and interface that needs to be loaded. However, it is none of this. It is actually the intro logo that you have to wait through. It isn’t necessary to have but is just something fun to stare at (sometimes). Every single time you fully boot the console.

So the company is working to reduce the startup animation to around 4 seconds instead of around 9 seconds. Simply changing the logo duration is enough to shave that time from the boot process.

Companies sure love to look at their own logos. This isn’t always the same for users. Especially impatient gamers that can’t wait to jump into one of their favorite titles. They don’t care about that fancy logo. They just want delivery of what they are there to do — get their game on. Or to watch a film, or a TV series, etc. Or a Youtube video, which is why our own intros are so quick and simple within any of our video content. We aren’t fans of drawn-out intros ourselves. Let’s just get on with the content!

So the new update will roll out once it makes it through the preview chains and to the public. Maybe, in the future, the company will offer a setting that can be switched on or off to include the logo (if it doesn’t have anything to do with what’s going on in the back-end). For now, though, you will continue to see the logo every time. It will just be a little shorter (soon).