system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What's the point of the "press any button to continue" screen in some video games, why not just boot to the main menu?
gpt
Artistically maybe they wanted to show a "clean" screen without a bunch of menu options on it. But there's really no technical reason to have one. A bunch of games boot directly to the main menu.

A better question is why are there unskippable splash screens? And the answer to that is that the game is loading in the background, sometimes the menu itself is loading in the background (ex: Just Cause 3, though for a cool reason, because there is no transition from menu to game when you're ready to play, the menu is created from your save file progress... look up a video of it, you'll understand)