It took the PS4 like close to a minute to cold boot and my gaming rig as quick as 19 seconds to cold boot
The Switch has near instantaneous boot times (it's faster than it takes HDMI to sync with my receiver and projector) and most games, particularly first-party titles, have trivial load times. The OS hypervisor is also instantaneously responsive.
It was one of the things that surprised me the most about the Wii U -- the boot time was awful and the home screen was painfully slow.
Also, who cold boots their PC? Sleep, or at least hibernate.
Sometimes I will go months at a time without using the gaming rig. So it doesn't make sense to have it idling; plus I don't want Windows running updates in the background (I occasionally have to go in and manually disable all of the auto-updates in the registry). It literally just has games on it and is hooked up to the TV; no keyboard, no mouse.
As for the Switch -- I love it for the reasons you just named. It really does have instantaneous boot times and most games load pretty quickly. There are a few titles with poorly optimised loading (usually Unity and UE4 titles), but that's the nature of general purpose game engines. Otherwise, you're spot on that the Switch is fast, fun, and very accessible.
The Switch has near instantaneous boot times (it's faster than it takes HDMI to sync with my receiver and projector) and most games, particularly first-party titles, have trivial load times. The OS hypervisor is also instantaneously responsive.
It was one of the things that surprised me the most about the Wii U -- the boot time was awful and the home screen was painfully slow.
Also, who cold boots their PC? Sleep, or at least hibernate.
Sometimes I will go months at a time without using the gaming rig. So it doesn't make sense to have it idling; plus I don't want Windows running updates in the background (I occasionally have to go in and manually disable all of the auto-updates in the registry). It literally just has games on it and is hooked up to the TV; no keyboard, no mouse.
As for the Switch -- I love it for the reasons you just named. It really does have instantaneous boot times and most games load pretty quickly. There are a few titles with poorly optimised loading (usually Unity and UE4 titles), but that's the nature of general purpose game engines. Otherwise, you're spot on that the Switch is fast, fun, and very accessible.