http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_System_Software

Looking at this list of updates, it shows that exactly 8 years before the Xbox One's release date there was a Day 1 update for Xbox 360. So considering the great improvements of the internet in 8 years, what makes the Xbox One's patch a big turn off for people? I understand that you can't do anything until you download it but what percentage of people actually buy an all in one 2013 console without any source of internet around them?

Its more or less cause of all the other shit that happened this year/last year... The wiiU day 1 patch was terriable... The SimCity always online thing was really bad and everyone basically just has this fear of... I am spending 400/500 dollars on this new system, but will it work when I turn it on?

The last thing anyone want happening is a bricked console due to some random connection issue

Its the inconvenience more than anything, along with the possibility that with so many hundred thousand people downloading the update at the same time that the update itself wont go as smooth as expected.

I didn't realize the 360 had that many update it would have been interesting if the had the size of each update also. As for the people that can't get the day one update due to having no internet or totally terrible internet they can always return their X1 to where they bought it and get a full refund like with all other goods bought brand new that don't work right.

I've never seen a problem with MS update time or availability. Xbox is actually the best in that situation.

Microsoft has been great in those situations though. I haven't had a system update over 10 minutes on the 360

Well... Xbox hasn't had a day 1 update like this ever... usually the updates are in different times, usually days apart and people can download the update at their convenience. But the main difference is that everyone downloading this update at around the sametime which really distroys the servers

no problem if you can play your games at launch without the update.

Because it speaks of problems that they should have hammered out in the final stages of the development, which again speaks of other, possible problems with OS, loading, installs, hardware etc.
I think the main reason why people don't like this is all too obvious if you look back at the 360's launch.

For me it doesn't matter though, I never buy consoles in their first year on the market, this is one of the reasons.

But we already know the reason for the update, to reverse the DRM.