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kitler53 on 20 November 2013
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TruckOSaurus said:
kitler53 said:
TruckOSaurus said:
The minor difference in heat generated and the power consumption don't really bother me but the 1 min 8 sec. boot time seems awfully long.


honestly though, how often are you going to cold boot?  i cold boot my vita like once every 6 or more months and only when something hangs.  there is some bug i've hit a few times with purchasing something on psn that hangs my vita so unless that happens it is always in standby.

 

the power consumption in standby mode worries me more and to be honest,.. it's not a worry about the system itself but rather the tree-hugger part of me that thinks an aweful lot of power is going to be wasted by these next gen consoles.   won't stop me from doing it but i'll feel bad from time to time.  :(  

I'm confused now, when I shutdown my PS3 and later hit the power switch is that considered a cold boot? Or do I have to unplug it for it to be a cold boot? Or do the next gen HD twins have a different way of powering down?


let's back up to a windows PC.  when you turn it off there is a "shutdown" and a "sleep" option.  shutdown would require a "cold boot" to turn back on which apperently takes 1min 8 secs.  sleep would basically be what the console makers are calling "standby" which is up and running again after only 18 secs. 

ps3 and 360 do not have a standby mode, only cold boot.  ..but vita does have standby.   a cold boot of vita is maybe 30 seconds and to bring it out of standby is practically instantanous.  in standby mode vita takes almost no power (i've left it there for days/weeks without draining the battery).  

ps4 and xbone now also support this standby mode which is new to consoles but to be honest kind of a standard feature for modern electronics.  still, it will be awesome,. i promise you.  it's part of why i love my vita soo much because i can pause and restart a game on vita at the drop of a hat which is a great feature for when my train arrives at my stop for instance.

 

basically imagine your in the middle of a level on whatever game when your wife/gf/whatever demands you come clean the dishes this instant and then you get distracted by kids and go to bed or whatever your routine is.  the next day when you come back you'll be a mere 18 seconds picking up where you left off exactly where you left off. not some check point near your most recent save,.. exactly whre you were.   if you were jumping when you paused you'll be finishing your jump when you come back.  it is fucking awesome.