10 Mind-Blowing Gaming Features Everybody Takes For Granted

10. Suspend/Resume

This may seem like a very minor feature, but the advent of putting a console in stasis and then returning to it the next day is extremely underappreciated. Today, it isn’t necessary to exit out of an app in between play sessions, and things can usually be picked up exactly where they were left upon returning.

In the old days, consoles simply didn’t have the wherewithal to stay running for days at a time, and, if left for too long, hardware malfunctions were essentially inevitable. That is no longer that case, as both the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 can be put into sleep mode, suspending operations until the player returns.

For gamers who grew up constantly waiting for games to load and discs to spin up before playing, this is an awesome innovation. No longer do we have to wait for a console to ready itself before resuming our adventures.

Today, the only thing standing between us and the game is the simple press of a button. While it’s still a good idea to shut a console down every once and awhile, it makes the act of actually jumping into the digital action far less laborious.