4. Instant-On Mode Causes Problems
The concept of having a console that's essentially always active in the background - even if you weren't actively using it - sounded brilliant before we all actually went out and bought the Xbox One and discovered that, in actuality, the idea was terribly implemented. Whether it's due to poor infrastructure or because the console's internal RAM struggles to hold so much temporary information is unclear, but putting the Xbox One into instant-on mode brings with it a whole host of irritating latency and performance issues. It's nice to know you'll never have to deal with sitting on your couch like a lemon as you wait for game and system updates to install (as you would if you using energy saving mode), but when that comes at the expense of total system crashes and weird bugs that cause games to not even run properly, if at all, you have to wonder if it's really worth the hassle. Hell, head over to Reddit and you'll find a bunch of posts complaining that the progress bar for their latest download didn't even budge an inch after they left it on standby. You can fix all of these issues by doing a hard reset of the console, but that's hardly a long-term solution now, is it?
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