What’s the point of an Xbox One Network Transfer?

[ASleepingMonkey]

I got my Xbox One X today and was looking to do a network transfer from my S to an X so I could just start playing Call of Duty and Assassin's Creed quickly.

In my mind, I thought the network transfer just somehow pulled the information from the S and put it on the X through some technology voodoo that I didn't understand. When I did it, it just put all my games and apps that I had installed on the S and put them on my X... but I had to fully reinstall them. So, what's the benefit of a network transfer as opposed to me just downloading them like normal? Seems pretty useless unless I am blind to what the feature is actually doing.

 

[Mrflood]

Mainly for people who have ISP data caps. Let's you transfer all the data between xboxs on the same network without having to download games multiple times.

 

[Smurf]

Data cap?

 

[Ukumio]

Its using the Local network rather then the internet.

 

[Expy]

In general people's networks are faster than their internet connections, and they don't have a data cap.

 

[bluexy]

It just uses your local network to download all of your data rather than your internet. A pretty significant thing for folk living with data caps.

 

[ASleepingMonkey]

It just uses your local network to download all of your data rather than your internet. A pretty significant thing for folk living with data caps.

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Ah! My privilege is showing, cool of them to do that then!