When Microsoft started introducing the phrase “Smart Delivery” throughout its Xbox Series X / S marketing last year, it seemed like a couple more empty fashion words. Surely, all games would work simply after you have installed them on the new and expensive hardware side, regardless of whether or not they support the Microsoft slogan. Not exactly!
Nothing has put the gap between the standard operating procedure for next-generation games and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X / S smart delivery feature, such as The Marvel Avengers. The next-generation version of the RPG loot was released yesterday and turned out to be a massive headache for those who wanted to upgrade from PS4 to PS5. First, they had to make sure both versions of the game were downloaded and updated on the console. Then they had to migrate their save data. Hours and dozens of GB of data later, they could delete the PS4 version and finally start playing.
Of course, it all got a little more complicated by how clumsy it can be to actually check which versions of a game you’ve downloaded to your PS5 and if they update. The Marvel Avengers in itself it also acted, with the game’s option to migrate saved data that does not appear for some players. Calia Crystal Dynamics several tweets and a dedicated one Frequently asked questions on the PlayStation website to explain the process, which was not intuitive enough to cause many people’s eyes to become envious after reading the instructions. “Living in the future at Sony here,” he tweeted Forbes the writer Paul Tassi.
Meanwhile, on Xbox Series X / S, things just worked out.
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Microsoft describes Smart Delivery as a “new technology” that helps you get “Xbox One and Xbox Series X versions of the game in a single purchase and the best version of the game will be automatically delivered to the console, regardless of generation, no need additional steps “. “What additional steps may be required?” many of us wondered last year when this explanation was launched. So accustomed to major technology companies cataloging and sending our data from one phone to the computer to another, the idea that your games and your saved data wouldn’t do the same when you go from current consoles to new ones. After all, we weren’t talking about Nintendo.
And yet, Smart Delivery has turned out to be a real thing that solves solutions to a real problem that otherwise affects the transition to next-generation consoles. Now I take it for granted that I can activate my S series, browse the Microsoft Store, Game Pass and my existing account library, and play anything in a matter of seconds, no questions asked. Then I go back to my PS5 and find that I already have room left because I have duplicate PS4 versions of various games downloaded. Also mine Ghost of Tsushima saving data was not transmitted: time to start backup of PS4. Jesus Christ, yes, I’m sorry to disconnect you without warning last time.
What can I say, I thought it would be for the last time.