PS5 Doesn't Have Quick Resume, But Loading Is Lightning Fast

Quick resume is a neat feature that would be nice to have, but ultimately I don't think it's much of a loss considering how fast loading up a game is anyway. Being able to swap between 3 and 4 games is cool, but I can't imagine many practical scenarios where I'd use that.

Yes but that’s not why I want Quick Resume. Xbox games also load very very fast because it also uses a (slightly slower) SSD, the tests are on the internet for all to see. This is just missing the point, retaining the game state is absolutely a big part of why Quick Resume is such a useful feature, especially in the backwards compatibility games from the original Xbox that lack an auto save function. If you have a family who all play different games at the same time, being able to have their own games open at once and ready to jump into the exact moment they left off is a huge advantage. That’s the power of Quick Resume, not loading quickly.

Its great that games load so quickly but Quick Resume is a feature I will certainly be jealous of from the X/S. Here's hoping they blatantly copy it in the future lol!

Not all that surprised or disappointed. I also wouldn't be surprised if we see the feature in some form in an update down the line, but ten second load times are more than adequate.

Sorry, I'm a bit confused here, isn't quick resume the ability to start a game where you left it off, you know, like in the PS4?
That for me is a very important feature because sometimes I just have to bail in the middle of a play session, and picking up exactly where I stopped is awesome.

Suddenly for some gamers quick resume is the most important feature ever lol. Oh well I'm sure sony will implement this sometimes in the future.

@nessisonett Can you point me in the right direction of these comparisons? I am very curious about these.

I've never come across a situation where something like quick resume would matter to me. What matters to me is the games. DA GAMES!!!

@get2sammyb Is it possible to put the PS5 into rest mode and jump back in right where you were like you can on PS4 though?

@nessisonett hardly slightly slower the ps5 ssd is twice as fast

That does surprise me!

Xbox can do 4/5 quick resume games.

I'm sure Sony will sort this out in an update at some point?

@Athrum No it means like how Xbox Series X will let you close a game but leave it in a saved state, so if you boot up another game then you finish with that you can switch back to the other game and it continues back up where you were.

Sorta like imagine if you ran 2+ games at the same time on Windows 10 but the game that isn't in focus runs in a really low resource mode till you bring it to front.

Quick resume is a neat feature, but PC gaming doesn't really use it so I'm not that worried about it's absence on the PS5.

Unless you count emulators but that's a whole different topic.

@TechaNinja I see. Thank you for the answer, made me sweat a bit there hahah, not that I'm buying one in the near future.

@DualshockInfinit https://www.gamespot.com/amp-videos/playstation-5-vs-xbox-series-x-load-times-comparison-or-next-gen-load-times-comparison/2300-6454169

Just BC games for now but Xbox Series X loads every game they tested quicker. I’m honestly shocked, I expected the PS5 to load them quicker by a good few seconds. I still expect full PS5 games to load quicker though.

@get2sammyb Okay, cool! Thanks for confirming!

A little disappointing (& not entirely surprising since I'm sure they would have confirmed it (even if it had a different name) by now) as the more I'm reading about Quick Resume the more useful I think it can be but it's not a deal breaker by any means - if the SSD can load a game in 9 seconds then that's more than acceptable (not exactly an inconvenience to resume play from a checkpoint when applicable since that's what we've all been doing for years anyway)

Very disappointed, I would have settled for quick resuming 2 games. It's honestly a incredible feature if you live in a household with multiple gamers.

@Orpheus79V I think it’s a huge loss. Majority of the time I don’t even save my game anymore manually, and can fire it up at literally any spot in the game. This is disappointing.

I would have thought that "activities" would be an almost alternative for quick resume given you can jump to many different checkpoints in games , but there doesnt seem to be any talk about that so far. Does it not work as expected, is it just embargoed for some reason?

@nessisonett Oh my gosh that is very eye opening, thanks

Quick resume with many profiles loaded into memory over and over just increases the risk for datacorruption in savefiles.
I rather have it the PS5 way with quick loads and clean memory management to be honest.

That feature would be useless to me tho because I own all my games on disc so it wouldn't work anyway??? But I guess it sounds good for people who own all their games from downloads.

@nessisonett check out the switcher function as detailed in PlayStation Access' latest video. Not quite quick resume but seems a useful feature for multi-gamer households and could be expanded in the future perhaps.

So I installed an SSD on my PS4 ages ago, which makes things like Bloodborne load in around 7-10 seconds, depending on the area. Same with Dark Souls 3. Do those games perform any differently when compared to a PS4 with SSD? If all a PS5 does is load things faster, I’m not sure I want to invest. Obviously a graphical upgrade is nice, and Demons Souls is a very good reason to grab the thing, as is the great backwards compatibility. It does kinda feel like the news industry is forgetting that you could very easy stick an SSD in the PS4.

@Carl-G I’m sure you may not know this, but once a game installs to the hard drive from a disc, the only time the disc is read at all is to ensure you own a legit copy of the game. Everything else loads from the hard drive, so if you want super fast load times on a PS4, just install an SSD, they made it really easy to do. All my games are discs and I get load times below 10 seconds.

I think quick resume is a feature people never knew they wanted. If you only have a PS5 it won't be a deal breaker but if you have both and get used to in on Series X it is going to feel like going backwards. Definitely feels like something that could be added in an update further down the line if it proves popular on the Xbox.
@Carl-G Games will be installed on the SSD even if you have the disc. Quick resume would be of little benefit as you would have to switch discs but would be nice if you could load the intro screen without the disc to save time while swapping discs.

@everynowandben I think you can. They showed it in the UI video. You just cannot do multiple games. I am happy as long as you go do it with one.

basically after today I realized xbox series x is the better console. Yes I will still stay playstation cause of the japanese games and exclusives but its obvious who has the better console now.

@vapidwolf at least for back compat games, Xbox is faster in SSD speed tests.

@Zeke68 Quick resume does not use save files. It is an image of the Xbox memory. It says the entire RAM space to the SSD.

I wonder if it is coming, because the amount of space used on the os I would have assumed was for resume states, I can’t imagining Sony creating an os that uses over 100gb

This is immensely dissapointing and Son should have been more transparent. They also need to say if it’s coming. Terrible communication and PR.

@DualshockInfinit same here.

I'm honestly starting to think I should have pre ordered the Series X first

In order to allow quick resume like Xbox would require quarantining large sections of the SSD so that the games can be held in suspension. I'd prefer more available space on the SSD. This is doubly true considering that a PS5 game boots in almost half the time as an Xbox game can switch. Resuming at the exact place paused would be nice, but most games quicksave constantly anyway. In a perfect world the PS5 would have the feature, but I personally couldn't care less.

One thing articles seem to be leaving out is that "Quick Resuming" a game on Xbox takes up to 15 seconds, while cold booting a PS5 game takes as little as 8 seconds. So using the "Switcher" function on PS5 is actually faster (not that either option is very slow).

This just sounds like Sony either being stubborn or lazy. That or this is on their to-do for later.

@Carl-G be good for PS4 PS Now 20 games though. But good point.

This isn't going to affect me at all considering I love to buy my games physically if I can.

@zimbogamer So Quick Resume is enough to make you realize Xbox is the better console now? Ok, I guess I'll be over here with lame PS5 since you obviously know which is the better console apparently.

Disappointed. I suspect it has to do with the SSD size more than anything, but I do hope they include this in the future. Dropping my save state at any time, save states with the power actually off, etc, absolutely is a valuable feature. I expected PS5 would have it, but even if it doesn't have it at launch I'm hopeful they'll get it eventually.

I mean PS5 wi have better exclusives and I am getting one but for the first time I am looking at an Xbox. More powerful console, absolutely better backwards compatible, auto hdr, quick resume, actually patching a lot of older xbox games to take advantage, and from what we see the Sony ssd isn't that much faster and in some 3rd party games worse(obviously depends on developer). Take into consideration all the studios Microsoft bought and they are rumored to be eyeing one or two more, then the Xbox is actually looking pretty great. I love Sony consoles but Xbox really hit it out the park this time around.

@zimbogamer yes I agree. Sony has the better exclusives which is the most important part but Series X is overall the better system that can do more.

I'm confused does it not have quick resume at all, or have it limited to one game as in the PS4 (the ps4 have quick resume where it keeps the save state for one game even if you use youtube and things like that, it's only when you open a different game that you lose the save state)

@dualwielding ps5 functions similar to the ps4's rest mode/suspend state. You can go into the menu and perform low level functions without needing to close the game and the game is suspended at the same point. This functionality is sill reserved for one game at a time and is not recoverable with a loss of power to the system. Microsoft's quick resume provides that function but for multiple games and the state is recoverable with a loss of power. Hope this clarifies stuff for you!

I'll be getting both Xbox and PS5 but more likely Xbox first. Microsoft have made some pretty smart choices in the lead up to this gen whereas Sony have made some strange choices and u-turns. BC was completely irrelevant to Sony at one point and now it seems like they've done the bare minimum to get it working just so that Xbox don't have that USP. "We believe in generations" died the moment people saw the benefits of Smart Delivery/cross gen upgrades and Sony decided most of the flagship titles would also release on PS4. I HATE the design of the PS5 and will definitely be waiting for a, no doubt inevitable, slim console. In black.

I cannot wait to try out the DualSense however and hope that it continues to be properly utilised by developers. Everything I've heard about it sounds amazing and a genuine selling point compared to the gradual refinement of the Xbox pad.

@get2sammyb @zimbogamer @Juanalf @nessisonett
One feature of Quick resume that not many actually talk about is, that if you unplug the xbox series x/s you won't lose your Quick resume. Not that is amazing! Image turning off after a trip resume 4 different games from where you left it.

@Ridwaano My fusebox tripped today while I was playing the PS4 on the last fight of a Multiverse run in Injustice 2 and the power went completely out. After the several minutes it took to boot back up, I had to start the entire mode again as it doesn’t save. Needless to say I understand the importance of that feature now!

Although its a nice feature to have, it serves no purpose and only acts as a gimmick.

1) 90% of gamers use physical hard disks which need to be removed and rebooted everytime anyways. Quickresume is useless in such case.

2) I can't recall a situation where I've played a game, Decided to pause it, Randomly decide to play another game in the middle...and then suddenly decide to go back in the 1st game again. That's what you do to your burger and chips when they're too hot. Not console games.

It's like sitting home on a Saturday evening, deciding to watch Lord of The Rings, suddenly precisely 48mins in, during a battle, suddenly you feel horny, pause LOTR and watch some Porno instead..and once you're done you decide to finish the epic battle with the orcs in Lord of the Rings...nobody does this..ever.

3) Some claim it's important for family gaming. One member plays one game. Another plays the other. Firstly everyone has their own user. If you have to switch user you'll have to boot the game again anyways. Even for argument sake...if you decide to use same user for some weird reason, who actually stops playing during their game...lets their brother or whatever play...then suddenly decide to cut through again and want to play his game again? Generally people would like to finish their turn, and another person starts once its their turn...instead of switching turns like intervals back and forth as if you're running on 10min time slots to play.

4) its only really for some who buy the digital only version.

5) PS5 probably will include it towards launch. The proof is that when the PS5 UI demo of sackboy was shown, the game was switched to another game.. yet there was no indication of sackboy ending. In PS4 there's a warning that the other application will close. Also in rest mode it says "suspend games". Not "suspend game".

Something i dont care cause im getting both consoles. Console wars mean nothing to people who can afford any system and we have no brand loyalty cause if something sucks we just play our other consoles. Also own a nintendo switch and pc for times i dont feel like ps or xbox

@SAR97 quick resume works for physical disk games as well, removing
the disk has no impact on the saved state. The game does not have to boot again either. As mentioned above it still holds the state when the powered down, think of it as hibernate from Windows for a console.

It's a really useful feature:

I could be mid game and then dinner is ready, or I need to go out, or my fav TV show is starting, or the football or sports game is starting, or need to take call, or work emergency, or I want to
take a break and I could then turn off console go do what I need and go back and carry on an hour later or a month later when I choose with out needing to re start at check piont or save.

I would not so no to have this feature on my ps.

@zupertramp

I think it has something to do with the storage requirements.

Quick Resume eats up a ton of storage on the Series S and Series X. They capture the entire state of the game, aka what’s loaded into RAM, onto the SSD.

The PS5 is already struggling for storage space compared to the Series X (the Series S suffers even more; I honestly think they should have pared QR in two slots instead of four on that system). That’s extra space the PS5 needs for game installs.

@TheRedComet yeah I didn't really think of that. good point.

@nessisonett

I agree.

That’s one thing I love about my Switch. The power died at the house during a storm a few weeks ago (we got a nice hurricane) and I was able to just pull it out of the dock, keep playing for a bit, save and power it down.

QR is like a much more sophisticated version of owning a Switch in terms of power loss.

@TheRedComet Yep, when my power blew I heard the beep come from my Switch’s speakers to signal it was running from battery! I do love my handheld consoles for situations like that.

@Athrum not exactly, I think you'll still be able to pick back up where you left off like you can in the PS4, the difference is on xbox sx you can pick back up where you left off between multiple games at the same time without having to cold boot the game. It's a really neat feature that doesn't currently exist on current/previous gen

@vapidwolf twice as fast lool
Made that up your self

Can almost taste the tears
from PlayStation fans 😂

@Jarobusa
"Quick resume does not use save files. It is an image of the Xbox memory. It says the entire RAM space to the SSD."
And how do you save that om an SSD? Yes, as a file. Datafile or savefile. Call it whatever, you Still copy data back and forth increasing the chance that those data will be mixed up and corrupted.

@Zeke68 likely event of any data corruption is very very slim and unlikely to ever happen these days, if it were old standard non ssd then maybe then it would be a slight risk due to its moving parts that increase the risk of R/W error.

While it's nice to have feature this will not impact your ps5 in game experience so no problem.

@InvaderJim
"likely event of any data corruption is very very slim and unlikely to ever happen these days"
Tell that to my Ubisoft games on my Pro.. 3 different games ... Saved by my PS Plus cloud backupsave each time.

@Zeke68 that's completely different to this, this is a local hardware transfering data on the same system board, not transfering data over the internet where there are lots of variables that out of the systems control.

@Total_Weirdo that the thing so much of the Playstation feels like it was half baked and the excuse to fix it later is a lazy one and shows Microsoft really is bringing the proper hardware/software mix while Sony is feeling behind.

@BansheeNorn I'm buying both (both are are on their way to me now and my extra dual sense is laying in a box across the room right now.

Doesn't change the fact that Sony is positively showing how not ready they were for this launch. So many things are "hope they add it later" or "they say it'll be ready later" or "should be fixed later"

It's kinda sad that Sony was supposed t launch before xbox originally last year and yet they are still so far behind.

They got some better games and a new fancy (and maybe gimmicky) controller.

But other than that Microsoft is the one doing EVERYTHING else right!

@SAR97 the fact that you make up all those excuses as to why it don't matter but then point out how you're sure it will get added later definitely points to you just defending Sony. Many people have legitimate reasons to want / need it and your excuses are flimsy at best or just fkatout wrong.

I'm sure switching users won't break it and I'm sure a person with an Xbox series will confirm it soon enough.

@AdamNovice xbox is a console setup to properly be a powerhouse and fully supported console for the next generation. Not just a couple quickly thrown together tech demos stretched out or a way to play upscale dlc sold to you while making you buy the game again. Oh and demon souls is just ANOTHER Sony remaster like their enitre last generation.

The fact that the strongest game they have is their tech demo really shows they were betting on gimmicks more than delivering a proper system built for the next 5-7 years.

@__jamiie yep at this point the controller is the strongest selling point the Playstation has for me and I'm really glad they did it but I have to pray support from third parties sticks around without it then it's nothing more than the rumble triggers the few xbox games have supported for 7 years now.

@Nepp67 you're truly sounding like the salty loser here... Anyone with an objective point of view and a checklist of pros/cons can see that micorosft really has more positives in its columns Sony has 2 things exclusives and a next gen controller every other category goes to Xbox.

I agree both of those are incredibly important but it doesn't change the fact that everything else is a win for Xbox.

I'm not going to run down the enitre list but if all the features discussed up to this point either xbox has them and Sony don't or Sony does them worse.

Any rational person can clearly see this.

Sony is relying on their games to keep people happy but I know many many ps4 owners never bought an exclusive (only 14.8% of ps4 owners even bought the highest selling Sony exclusive of the generation).

So for many it may not matter that Sony has the games if all they care about is the best place to play their 3rd party title of choice.

@KippDynamite only with games we've seen so far and ones that are likley made to make that inital load as fast as possible to show it off.

Not only that but none of this negates the fact that the exact state of the game is saved on Xbox while Playstation will have to load your most recent save and in certain situations that could massively detrimental.

@nessisonett I expect Sonys first party titles will really show off the fast loading but I'm not so sure if the 3rd party cross platforms will only time will tell but if Microsoft not only has the more powerful console from a graphics standpoint they also end up with the faster loading console (when Sony put so much into their "faster" ssd tech) it's really going to say a number of things about how smart console design decisions matter.

@vapidwolf in theory and on paper but there's much more to speed than just the numbers on paper.

We will have to see but I suspect the "balance" may be leaning towards the Xbox setup and it comes out in games just being ABLE to load faster on Xbox due to things beyond the speed of the ssd.

@zimbogamer yes for myself I've seen it since early on amd have proclaimed it "since day 1" that the Playstation will have its exclusives amd that's enough for many but overall the Xbox is the better setup and more powerful console amd now its just starting to come out that I was spot on to begin with.

@InvaderJim You misread my comment. Read again please. The corruption was in the hdd/system level.
But fortunately I had a backup online. That save was NOT corrupted...

This thread is turning into a bit of a troll fest, my ignore list is getting bigger.
Why does every thread have to turn into a console war?
Sony have dropped the ball on a few things, which is frustrating, but I really don't care if the XBox does things better or not. Go to the forums and start a new thread! Let's keep this to a discussion about what we like or dislike about the PS5 and what we'd like to see happen.

@SJBUK
Wise words. ✌️

@SaltlakeCity no its a fact, the xbox series x ssd is 2.4gb per second and the ps5 is 5.5gb per second, as an xbox fan i understand how you'd have a problem with simple maths but trust me thats over twice as fast.

@DualshockInfinit there's been a lot but if you go to gamespot they have a good video on it

I usually only play 1 game at a time so I would never use quick resume on multiple games but it should be an option for other gamers. What I do like about the xbox is that if the power goes out it still will continue where you left off, that I wish the ps5 did.

https://press-start.com.au/news/playstation/2020/11/06/the-ps5-activities-feature-playstations-answer-to-quick-resume-and-its-also-a-game-changer/
What about this?...

@Orpheus79V
Activities Feature
https://press-start.com.au/news/playstation/2020/11/06/the-ps5-activities-feature-playstations-answer-to-quick-resume-and-its-also-a-game-changer/

https://youtu.be/_hsTNRDm5TM

If you all are confused about the PS5, it's still pretty amazing. Buy a PS5 and a gaming computer. No one needs an Xbox

Sounds ideal for people who share one console and want to carry on etc but its not essential if your just gonna play it yourself, I'm just happy with the whole implementing faster load times, ill probably miss long loads times one day 😆

It it saves a huge file of the game state every time u suspend it, wouldn't that reduces the ssd's life significantly faster?

@Oz_Momotaro Might want to scroll down a bit, I’m the one who shared that link of Xbox Series X vs PS5 for BC when it first broke 😉

@Cybrshrk you sure ps5 was supposed to come out last year? Ive been following leaks and articles for a while now and its the first time i heard of it. Wheres your sources?

@wiiware I use it all the time on ps4 and leave my console in rest mode and resume where I left off, it's baffling that the ps5 doesn't have this!

This is a legitimate downer. If you play a lot on the switch you’ll know how big of a deal this is. I can get back into the game I’m playing in under two seconds with two button presses. It’s a big reason why I don’t play on my PS4 very often. It takes so long to get back into a game.

@huyi
Um are you talking about standby mode? Cause i think ps5 has that as well. Quick resume is different. Its like how the pc stores ram and remembers what it last played before it was powered down. Its pretty much putting your pc to sleep mode then waking it back up to resume what it was doing.

@BansheeNorn I don't have anymore sources than what rumors and others over the last year have said but many others have said or heard that the ps5 was originally designed and intended to release in late 2019 early 2020 and delayed when they found out Microsoft wasn't going to be launching til now.

Again supposedly that's why the disparity in power numbers and why it was originally a 9tflop box based on leaks but was then suddenly a 10.2tflop one.

When they found out ms would be later and more powerful they delayed and set about trying to recoup some more power from their system to get it closer to the Xbox.

That's what numerous people had said over the last year but I don't have any particular person who reported it (not that I can remember).

@vapidwolf still even if twice as fast it doesn't mean it will be anywhere near twice as short loading times.

The facts are no Sonys insanely fast ssd tech hasn't led to "no loading times" like so many had claimed it would. And as far as the Xbox from what we've seen it's design leads to loading that's for the most part equal in speed or faster the only place I don't see this being true is where comparisons can't even be made (ie Sony first party titles using every trick in the book to make sure they load as fast as possible).

Unless assassins creed dirt 5 watch dogs legion etc load twice as fast on ps5 than xbox I would say the "need" for it is basically proven false.

Overall it looks like Microsofts i/o game loading and booting / rebooting / quick resume is the overall better approach, unless Sonys hardware truly shows 2x loading speeds in these cross platform titles.

We will know soon enough.

@SJBUK echo chambers are how things like Trump becoming president happen.

If you want to live in a bubble go ahead but Dont try and stifle people who are passionate about a product being angry that it's failed them in numerous ways.

@Cybrshrk true we will see ,also microsofts quick resume won't work with those 3rd party games you listed its just 1st party games ,whether they will implement it remains to be seen,I don't see how you can fail to be impressed with spidermans 2 second loading and demons souls less than a second.