With the replace, Xbox consoles are in a position to be “carbon conscious” of when to carry out sport downloads and updates by connecting to the web and checking for regional carbon depth knowledge. Microsoft says it is going to schedule updates through the nightly upkeep window for occasions that end in decrease carbon emissions as a result of extra out there electrical energy is coming from lower-carbon sources.

Whereas the weblog put up encourages avid gamers to “select what works greatest for you,” Xbox hasn’t but rolled out the one-time change pushing customers to the “Shutdown (vitality saving)” setting that makes use of considerably much less vitality in comparison with conserving it in Sleep mode on a regular basis. It does imply a barely longer boot course of whenever you flip in your system, however Microsoft can be going so as to add new lively hours settings that put your system into the fast-booting Sleep mode through the occasions whenever you’re extra more likely to play or need to entry it remotely.

You’ll additionally be capable of begin utilizing the Google Dwelling app as a contact distant management for Xbox consoles beginning at this time. Distant options embrace powering on / off consoles, navigation, play / pause, the power to document sport clips, and quantity controls.

Lastly, the Xbox February dashboard replace additionally features a slight tweak to the Dwelling UI to allow you to conceal sport artwork on the homescreen. Microsoft has additionally added a fast approach to see latest events within the dashboard, and initially, that is rolling out slowly to a “random subset of customers.”

Correction, 7:14PM ET: An earlier model of this story stated the one-time energy change and new lively hours settings are rolling out, in actual fact they haven’t been launched usually but, the sustainability choices within the February replace are the brand new “carbon conscious” downloads. We remorse the error.