steven787 said:
Yeah, when I buy a brand new game for a console (biting my nails on the car ride home), the last thing I want to do is sit through anything before some gameplay or at least a cinematic.
That is why I liked consoles over PCs for many years, and why now all I have is a Wii and a PC. |
I own a Wii, decent gaming PC and an Xbox 360. When you pop a 360 game into the drive and it says that there's an update available for it, it never takes more than a few seconds to download. It takes 5-15 seconds and you're up and running, and that's not an exaggeration.
It's not like PC games don't have patches released for them and often they can be a couple of hundred megabytes or more. One advantage with the 360 and PS3 is you're alerted to the fact that there's an update straight away, so you're always up to date. With PC games sometimes I don't know which patch is the newest and I'm often not aware that a new patch has been released for a particular game I own.
As for the Wii, the inability to patch games is not a good thing. No patches have been released for SSBB, Red Steel or Madden 08 BTW, because no patches have been released for any disc based Wii game. The Twilight Hack is not a patch. It's a modified game save that allows you to exploit a flaw in Zelda so you can run code from an SD card.
