When Microsoft began slipping the phrase ‘Smart Delivery’ into all its Xbox Series X / S marketing last year, it seemed like it was just a few more empty buzzwords. Surely all games will only work after you install new hardware on your expensive one, whether it supports Microsoft’s slogan or not. Not at all!
Nothing has put the gap between the standard procedure for next-generation games and Microsoft’s Xbox Series X / S Smart Delivery feature on display, just like Marvel’s Avengers. The booty RPG’s next generation version went live yesterday and seems to be a big headache for those who want to upgrade from PS4 to PS5. First, they had to make sure that both versions of the game were downloaded and updated on the console. Then they had to move their storage data. Hours and tens of GB of data later, they can remove the PS4 version and finally play.
All of this, of course, has been made a bit more complicated by how clumsy it can be to see which versions of a game you have downloaded to your PS5 and whether it has been updated. Marvel’s Avengers itself was also acting, with the option in the game not to show the migration of storage data to some players. Crystal Dynamics needs this several tweets and a dedicated Questions on PlayStation’s website to explain the process, which was intuitive enough to make many people’s eyes twinkle after reading the instructions. ‘Living in the future here at Sony,’ tweeted Forbes author Paul Tassi.
Meanwhile, things on Xbox Series X / S just worked.
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Microsoft describes Smart Delivery as a ‘new technology’ that helps you ‘get the Xbox One and Xbox Series X versions of the game in one purchase, and the best version of the game will be delivered automatically to your console, regardless of generation – no extra steps required. “” What additional steps may be required? ” many of us wondered last year when this explanation was built in. It was common for our data to be cataloged and transferred from one phone and computer to the next by large technology companies, and the idea that you store games and data would not do the same as you would from the current consoles to the latest consoles do not go. It wasn’t Nintendo after all.
And yet Smart Delivery is time and time again a real thing that solves a real problem that would otherwise plague the transition to the next generation of consoles. I take it for granted that I can turn on my Series S, browse through the Microsoft Store, Game Pass and my existing account library, and just play within seconds, without any questions. Then I go back to my PS5 and find that I already have little space because I downloaded duplicate PS4 versions of various games. Me too Ghost of Tsushima data storage has not been transferred – time to restart the PS4. Jesus Christ yes, I’m sorry I disconnected you last time without warning.
What can I say, I thought it would be for the last time.