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Barozi on 07 October 2013
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attaboy said:
ithis said:
I didn't read all the answers so maybe these have been answered, but my understanding of game updates is that they are patches that fix/add to the respective game, some of them being mandatory, especially for network play. So my questions are: are there no patches/game updates on the Xbox or Wii/WiiU? And if there are, are the updates smaller on the Xbox than on the PS3 for the same multiplat game that is bought 3 years after it's release? Does a freshly bought fortza 4 not require a hefty software update for it to work/or to work online?


360's updates are super short 9/10 times.  Wii U updates are long and slow but you can play the game while they install.  Sometimes, they update and install and the only way you know is that the game will tell you that the update has been added.  There are still times where I time it wrong and have to sit through a lenghty install, though.

No idea why Sony's are always so long.  I do think I remember them being bigger in size, though.  My "nephew" got Madden and NBA 2K something Christmas before last.  He was so excited to play.  We always had Christmas at his grandma's house.  The games updated for HOURS!  That was the worst I'd ever seen.  MGS4 and LBP1 and 2 were pretty substantial, too.  Also Heavy Rain had an install (not an update) that was so long,  it taught me  how to make Oragami while the game installed.  I'm serious!

There's a way to delete Xbox 360 updates.  I did it before but I can't remember the process.  I'm tempted to delete the updates for something like Halo 3 just to see how it compares to pretty much any PS3 title.  But, I'm not that bored.  I'm gonna play me some Wind Waker HD!

There are two kind of title updates.

One that is up to about 3-4MB which is stored in the cache, but there is only so much space there so the console deletes these small updates if you haven't played the game in a long time. Alternatively deleting the whole cache will also delete all title updates that are stored there.

The other kind is handled like DLC. For bigger files where it wouldn't make sense to download them again they're saved permanently on the HDD. Unless you delete them manually of course.