Sony Reveals Only 50% of PS5 Owners Use Rest Mode; Was a Driving Force in Creating Welcome Hub

Sony reveals that PS5 owners are at a 50/50 split when done gaming, as half put the console on Rest mode, while the other half shut it down.

[OtterX]

Almost always Rest Mode, so that I can wake it up and play via my Portal whenever I want. Also for automatic updates.

[StormSnooper]

Same. But I been putting it in rest mode even prior to the Portal.

[Cacabunga]

At the same time SSD allows so fast booting of software that rest mode isn’t so relevant compared to before.
I only put the console in rest mode if the game doesn’t have auto save feature or controllers need charging after gaming session. Otherwise always OFF

[Army_of_Darkness]

Same. I only use rest mode when there isn't a nearby save point, have plans on playing later from exactly where I left off or need to charge a controller... Come to think of it, rest mode is pretty awesome! 😁
My condo has arbitrary blackouts, which is my only concern for rest mode.

[Christopher]

I do it just for the auto-updates. Last thing I want to do is turn on my console and wait for it to update when it could have done that when I was sleeping.

[OtterX]

Yea, even before my Portal I always kept it on rest mode for that reason too.

The only negative I've ever had is a power outage, which is very rare. I've had my PS4 corrupted to the point of needing to be completely wiped & reinstalled. The PS5 SSD seems much more resilient in that regard. No full crap-outs yet.

[OlderGamer17]

Noppe i put it always put the PS5 out, Its only in stanby when i wanna charge my controllers.. For the rest its out...just as my TV my and the tv provider box and al my other devices that have a standby option. I dont want to waist energy....

[Reaper22_]

It's probably because they don't have a quick resume feature like the Xbox has. It's one of the things I like about the xbox.

[__y2jb]

That’s surely the other way around? Last time I checked the Xbox had no rest mode feature.

[GamerRN]

Xbox absolutely has a "rest mode", has since Xbox One. When was the last time you checked?

[hiawa23]

Um, Xbox does have rest mode, quick resume, or you can turn the console completely off.

[__y2jb]

Last time I checked was on the xbone and it didn’t.

[babadivad]

How can something so blatantly incorrect have so many up votes? 😂😂

[StormSnooper]

Nope not at all. In fact, I like seeing the home page. And the SSD on PS5 is lightning fast. So you click your game and you’re in.

[Christopher]

What? If you rest while in a game (offline, of course), it definitely starts right back up in that game.

*** It can't enable the feature across multiple games simultaneously either. You can't switch between multiple games on the fly like you can on xbox.***

Zero bearing on the discussion of rest mode for starting up the game you last played. Not sure how having the ability to swap between two games quickly would at all impact using rest mode to immediately get into the last game you played.

[Reaper22_]

Meh, doesnt matter. Just pointing out a few facts. Some people think they're the same but there is a difference. It's still something I think Sony should adopt. That power down percentage would probably drop drastically.

[RauLeCreuset]

"Meh, doesnt matter. Just pointing out a few facts."

Pointing out a few facts doesn't mean you have a decent argument.

Saying that half the users aren't using rest mode because PS5 doesn't have Xbox's quick resume feature seems like a stretch to inject quick resume into the conversation.

The reason andy85 gave for shutting all the way down sounds more plausible than the idea that half the users are probably shutting down because there's no quick resume. Wouldn't the extended time it takes to start up instead of resuming from rest be counterproductive to shutting down because there is no quick resume?

[VariantAEC]

@Reaper22_
Quick Resume ≠ Rest Mode
The former allows swapping between apps rapidly after allowing their RAM contents to be dumped to storage while the latter keeps RAM contents active in a deep sleep.

PS5 also has a task switcher feature that allows small apps to be brought up instantly while playing a game. At most you can run a game, either Spotify, Apple Music, or the USB music player and the PS5 gallery app together plus one pinned window. The PS5 doesn't struggle with this, but it's not as flexible as Xbox Series regarding multitasking, not that these auxiliary features are really important to most gamers.

[VariantAEC]

@RauLeCreuset
What most Xboxers forget is PlayStation was the first to deploy a "Quick Resume" function with PSP Go. It was called "Game Pause" and kept one game in the extra 32MB of RAM Go had over all the other PSP models so you could play a totally separate game. You could pause one game play another and put PSP in sleep mode keeping both in memory. Turning the PSP Go off, didn't clear the paused game from RAM meaning you could still resume a paused game after cycling the console's power.

The only thing that could clear a paused game from memory other than deleting it or overwriting it, by pausing another game, is when the battery is allowed to run completely flat. This means you get no response when trying to power the console up. If you get the battery too low screen when powering PSP Go up your paused game is still saved so long as you charge the device or don't disconnect the console's battery pack (which required tools unlike other PSP models).

[andy85]

I can turn on my console from cold and be in game in 20 seconds. It's really not that. I just don't like leaving Electronics on overnight

[Kekewei]

Nonsense I have been using rest mode since ps4/x1 days.
Quick resume maybe suit for xbox gamers, bc most of them invest heavy time in game pass, and just like netflix users, they like killing time in finding out which they really like and play several games at the same time...But for me, I can only focus on 2 games at most, quick resume is a total waste of system resource.

[Jolska420]

This eternal back and forth console fighting. Who cares? Play the one you prefer and stop acting like kids. Jeusys craizt!

[Master-Tonberry]

That's..... odd, aside from paranoia about things using electricity (it uses so little it's basically negligible) there's no downside to having it enabled that I know of.

I can't remember if it's on by default out of the box? if not then it's probably just that people don't know about it or can't be bothered to enabled it.

[The_Algorithm]

No enabling needed it's a feature available right out of the box, you just simply choose it as an option when shutting down the console.

[Becuzisaid]

If you lose power while the PS5 is in rest mode can cause corruption of files. It's happened once to me.

[nitus10]

This is no more different than a PC. Basically when you restart the operating system will rescan the storage and fix any corruption. Of course in the case of any computing sytem if the corruption is severe you may have to recover from your backups.

[badz149]

had power downs several times but never corrupted files. the PS4 and 5 just boot up and rescan the drives and they just work.

there was this one time on the PS4 when I had corrupted files. turned out, there are bad sectors on the external HDD. it was a big oof moment for me as it was a 4TB storage. tried several methods to repair the bad sectors using the PC, it didn't work, sadly!

[Master-Tonberry]

That was certainly an issue when the PS5 first launched but it was quickly patched and isn't really a problem any more. It can still happen in VERY rare circumstances, but that's also the case with Xbox, Switch and PC (or any older console that writes data to some form of storage.

[VariantAEC]

Happened twice to me. I think PS changed how PS5 accesses content which is likely how it didn't happen the 3rd time my PS5 lost power... but it was actively running the 3 times the power was cut. I wound up investing in a back-up power device that the PS5 is now connected to. I also back-up my system data more often with hard drives that have massive capacities typically over 5TB. My PS5 has 7TB of storage currently.

[Christopher]

A lot of people are truly tech ignorant. We've not seen as much advancement in software tech because they would lose a massive portion of the population with things they didn't understand. I mean, we're talking about people who still get scammed by random text messages and random phone calls here. People aren't as cognizant of technology as most people think. My nephew thought telling his grandmother to buy him a $35 PC case was the same as buying a full desktop PC. He's 11. He uses tech devices every day and he didn't know that.

[anast]

That's shocking, even to someone who is mostly tech ignorant.

[Knushwood Butt]

Almost always turn the ps5 off.

[Putte]

What's the point of rest mode other than using more unnecessary power. It's so fast to just fully turn it on and off.

[The_Algorithm]

It uses less power in rest mode than if it's left on and paused plus zero load of the game. Say you're playing GT7 and in the middle of a ten lap race and have to leave at seven or eight laps in, if you shut off the system you lose all the time you spent getting to that point, you could pause the game and walk away but that consumes more power. Alternatively in rest mode you can pause your game and select rest mode from the shutdown options which will put the system in a low power usage state and when you come back and turn the system on instead of reloading the game it will already be active and waiting for you right where you paused it no loss of any game time regardless of the game. Really is a great feature.

[Putte]

Yes but even less power if it's turned all the way off. That's what I'm saying.
The people who needs to leave in the middle of a game and not coming straight back after some minutes are slim.
If i need to leave for many hours i just turn it all the way off. And restart from a check point. No problems.
I think alot of people do the same as the article States. The numbers don't lie. Just turn it off. Just easier if you don't want to think about anything.

[RauLeCreuset]

Restarting from a checkpoint does not sound easier than putting it into rest mode.

[Gamist2dot0]

And I like the nostalgic experience of the PS1 bootup screen every time lol.

[clevernickname]

It's not fast. You have to wait for the console to start and then load your game. All of that takes time, and rest mode uses reduced power anyway. With rest mode, the console starts immediately right into the game I was playing.

It's stupid not to use it.

[nitus10]

The PS5 in rest mode consumes between 0.38 Watts and 4.2 Watts depending on what you want the PS5 to do.

From Sony web site: https://www.playstation.com...

> Rest mode ‘low power use’ setting is the default standby setting on PS5 and consumes 0.38 W
> Rest mode, supplying Power to USB Ports is 4.0 W
> Rest mode, stay Connected to the Internet is 1.2 W
> All of the above "rest modes" consume 4.2 W

So to sum up, the maximum rest usage of the PS5 is 4.2 W. Yes that will break the power consumption bank considering that average led light will be in the order of approximatly 10W and I have not covered the old style filament globes if you still use them. There are many more electrical devices that would consume much more than 4.2W (Fridge is just one example since that is 24x7).

[Master-Tonberry]

What are you talking about? Electricity is bloody expensive here in the UK but even at the maximum consumption of 4.2w that you stated it would only cost £7 if left in standby mode all day everyday for a year! 😅

It's £0.02 per day, no bank is being broken.

[The_Algorithm]

Happy to say I'm in the fifty percentile that definitely uses it. It's a great convenient feature.

[Inverno]

I leave my ps4 on rest mode mostly cause I forget and then I'm too lazy to turn it back on to turn it off. But the real reason I prefer turning off my console is due to shite-tastic wiring in old buildings that cause random surges and shut downs. That short period where your console doesn't turn back on after spamming the power button after a random surge… not fun.

[anast]

I use something like a "CyberPower" surge protector unit.

[badz149]

that's an ad

[anast]

No it's not.

[Inverno]

Thnx for the reminder. I've been thinking bout getting something similar.

[DivineHand125]

I personally don't use rest mode because it doesn't work with multiplayer games, it is a waste of electricity and if I'm playing a single player game, the loading time isn't so long that I need to consider rest mode. If Sony can enable quick resume like what is on the Xbox, it will be welcomed but I want to choose which games use the feature.

[badz149]

quick resume doesn't work for MP games too though

[DivineHand125]

I am aware that is why I want to control which games use the feature. It will be a boon for the single player titles but it is detrimental to multiplayer games and ends up taking longer to get in game vs starting up from scratch.

[Goodguy01]

Well it does use up energy. I use it when downloading a hefty game or using remote play. Suspend also can be glitchy for games, I left a game on suspend one time for over a day, and I didn't realize it kept those hours as play time til I saved lol.

[Profchaos]

Rest mode for me never know when I want to use remote play

[Pyrofire95]

It's been 4 full years and it's still a little annoying to navigate the Dashboard, it's a step back from the PS4 by far.
On PS4 you can double tap to go back and forth between the Dash and your game. On PS5 a double tap brings up an irrelevant card, on PS5 you MUST navigate back to the app icon on the Dash or you the 'quick' menus switcher, both require navigation and multiple button presses.
This also includes the headache of powering down the system.
On PS4 hold the PS button and there is a power menu.
On PS5 I had to google how to turn it off the first time. Again you have to navigate the the quick menu.

[Gamist2dot0]

I use Rest Mode a lot during the PS4 days because it was hooked up to a backup battery. When the power goes out, I have a few seconds to turn it off. Without backup battery, the time to resume the PS4 took about 3-5 minutes to recover and get back to gaming.
I still use it on PS5 but since I don't have a backup battery for it yet, it's 50/50 for me. Also, powering it off sometimes help refresh the console for optimal performance.

[jznrpg]

I keep mine in rest mode most of the time but my children turn theirs off most of the time.

[MetroidFREAK21]

I use rest mode to charge my controller. That's it. Since my PS5 is offline

[Muigi]

Been using rest mode 100% of the time since the PSP days.

[gold_drake]

i always shut it down, only rest mode when i know i resume playing in abit.

[anast]

same

[clevernickname]

As a busy person I love the rest mode. I can suspend my game and jump right back to where I left off, and charge my controllers as well. I don't understand why you wouldn't use it.

[anast]

When I don't use the console for more than 8 hrs., I shut it down. I let it rest other than that.

[Demetrius]

When i take my break in between my sessions, rest mode is a must I can't game 5-8 hours straight lmao after a good hour and half is all I be needing. If longer then I'd end up turning it off and take a break from a couple days

[hiawa23]

I only put my Pro in rest mode when charging controllers or downloading games and updates. Otherwise it is completely off.

[SonyStyled]

I use rest mode only to charge a controller after gaming. Otherwise I turn it off completely

[DarXyde]

I'm a shutdown guy.

[raWfodog]

I keep in rest mode during the day since I take regular breaks while working from home to dip in and out of a game, and to keep my controllers charged. When I’m done for the day, I shut down.

[ibrake4naps]

I always rest mode so I can remote play from work

[MaximusPrime_]

I'm 50/50.

I power off every night
I put on rest mode every day (except when I'm out)

[rexx142]

i think i mainly dont use rest mode because i was under the impression it consumed slightly more draw than turning it off completely... but i could be wrong.

[IRetrouk]

Have used rest mode since launch, its a handy feature, maybe not the most important but it certainly has its use cases.

[RiseNShine]

"Only 50%" is a strange way to put it, that 1 of every 2 people use that mode is a lot.

[DFresh]

I like rest mode.
-Automatic Updates.
-Automatic Downloads.
(Game Files are huge.)
-Quicker to boot up and get back to playing.

[1nsomniac]

Just switch it off ya numpties!

[boing1]

In rest mode since launch. I turn it off only when I need to.

[JasonX43]

When the PS5 first came out, there were reports that going in to rest mode while Spider-Man Miles Morales was running was bricking people's consoles! I never heard if that was fixed, so I never used rest!

[ZeekQuattro]

Much like with my Series S I only use rest mode when I'm downloading games or DLC on my PS5.