Update: Forza Motorsport 5 doesn't require a day one update to play after all

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SvennoJ said:

It's worse, it a bit further down the slipperly slope again.
Normally the extra time is spend for further testing and ironing out non critical issues that didn't make it before the disc had to be shipped. Day 1 patches can always be ignored for offline play.
Now the extra time is spend on finishing the actual game, which means the day 1 patch, fixing left over issues, is another 6 weeks behind.
It's not free day 1 DLC, it's the rest of the game without which it won't run at all.
The benefit of digital distribution, sell first, finish later.

That is inline with this rumor: http://kotaku.com/about-microsoft-being-six-months-behind-with-the-next-486212937

But to be fair with MS... they don't have another another choice after all the mess over the Xbone... they need to ship these key title at Day One no matter what.