The fall season is always a heavy time for gaming, and that?s before you account for a pandemic keeping people indoors, new consoles launching, and digital game updates and file sizes being bigger than ever. Last week?s launch of the Xbox Series X and PS5 consoles, along with game downloads and updates, caused a huge surge in internet traffic, making people exceed their data caps and even breaking records for ISPs in the UK (where the PS5 hasn?t even officially launched yet).
The BBC reported last week that BT, Virgin Media, Sky, TalkTalk, Vodafone, City Fibre and Zen Internet all saw a huge spike in data demand on Tuesday November 10th when the Xbox Series X launched. As players received the new console and began downloading new games, the providers hit record numbers.
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