The DeanBeat: The consoles have a tall order in bringing joy to the world

I used to sit with a laptop or iPhone beside me when I played a game on my consoles. That was because I could look at the second screen while I waited for the game to load. I did that with the PlayStation 5 while playing Spider-Man: Miles Morales last night. And it instantly loaded where I left off. I didn’t have time to check on anything else because my game was ready for me. I can’t tell you how much joy that gave me, and I hope that all of you will soon experience that feeling as well.

It’s a such a small thing, but the solid-state drives (SSDs) on these machines enable such fast restarts and that will save us so much time. Joy is what these machines — the Xbox Series X/S debuting November 10 and the PS5 arriving two days later on November 12 — deliver on a daily basis.