It seems as though Nintendo is finally catching up to recent gaming trends–the good and the bad. The long-awaited Xenoblade Chronicles X launched today in both North America and Europe, and it came with a special surprise: a patch! In order to access the game’s online multiplayer features, players must update it to version 1.0.1, which fixes minor text issues. This has become a bit of a pattern for the Kyoto-based company, as they also released a day one patch for Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash.
Xenoblade Chronicles X Has A Day One Update
It better not take up too much space. I deleted a lot of my downloaded purchases for those downloadable data packs you know! Not sure how much more I can free up if it’s too much…
what kind of drive size do you have? i have a “64”gb (i think the actual size is 29gb) flash drive, didnt have much on it but, left with 6844mb (6.8gb), had to copy the load packs to the system memory in case something happens to my flash drive.
Right this was the main fucking reason why I bought a physical copy. Had to delete alot of important shit for this game. The packs are like 17gb. Had to delete hyrule warriors and art academy for this. It better be fucking worth my lost data.
because there is no way of storing that data on another disc…
There only 10gigs actually.
nope..25GB
…It’s 15 to download and install all 4 packs.
oh lol i thought we were talking about the amount of space on a wii u disc
It’s wants 15 gigs to download the packs, but the packs are actually only 10 gigs. Trust me I’ve done this already.
Sacre bleu! A day one patch? How can they? That’s horrible! That’s insane! How can they betray us like this? Nintendo, I trusted you! You traitors!
…said noone ever. Seriously, downloading and installing the patch takes 5 minutes at most and since you only need it for online features, you can even save it for later if you want to get right into the game.
Will be getting ready to pick it up in a few hours can’t wait
Yea, patch is less than 5 minutes. In fact I didn’t even notice it. I got up to take a piss, and a came back and it was playing.
I would rather have a patch than some bug in the game.
That’s pretty disappointing. This game has been ready for months waiting for the Christmas market and to only realise these mistakes now is bad. Probably brought to their attention by early reviewers. We’re lucky that patching is an option these days.
Um… It hasn’t “been ready for months” it’s been being worked on the entire time. It’s a 300+ HR JRPG it takes a while. And plus the update was for some minor text changes in online and it was absolutely tiny and took me 2 min to download and install, it’s no big deal.
It’s a meager patch for a few text mistakes that downloads and installs in a couple of minutes even with my shit Mexican internet connection.
Xenoblade X is not launching as a broken mess in need of behemoth-sized downloadable fixes like Sonic Boom or Assassin’s Creed Unity, it’s a quality game with the standard little problem here and there, which is perfectly normal and has happened to every game from Super Mario Bros. to Fallout 4.
Moreover, as time goes on more and more data is coded into games and the chance of it acting up in the long run increases because of this, so in fact having a game that only needs to patch a few text mistakes is a godsend, and like Pokemon X and Y or Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze this 8th generation Nintendo game may need further patching in the future, not because it isn’t made with care, but because technology isn’t perfect, it wasn’t perfect when Yoshi’s Island came out, it wasn’t perfect when Twilight Princess came out and it isn’t perfect today, but thankfully now we can fix it.
Wait, so xenoblade has a day one update, whatever. But Mario tennis needed patches? The game was so lackluster they couldn’t have made sure the bugs were ironed out?
Except from the fact that Wii U doesn’t have much space, day on patches isn’t a big deal. Sure okay you have a connection, it take you alot of time as well, BUT! There much… Muuuuuch worse things than that. Like unfinised and rushed games…
Probably going to some hate for this, but Xenoblade CX is a partial online game, right? Patches is to be expected?
lol @ you guys already retching hyperboles
The day-one patching probably would be getting less animosity if the bust slider was re-implemented as part of it.
Oh shut up.
To be fair, game actually released ages ago, would be wonder if they did not find anything to patch.
When I first booted Splatoon, there was no patch, now that’s a wonder.
Why are you lot bother about storage problems, just buy 2TB HDD will be good to go.
If anyone doesn’t have much memory internally and flash drives, don’t buy this game will need lot of memory end of the day this is only one game we are talking about will want to download other games most of them are from 10GB to 20GB so good to buy a external HDD.
They should patch the audio issues, and enable audio output from Gamepad.
Not sure if there are any active responders here (I barely check my email :P), but I had already spent a lot of money during Black Friday. Originally, I was planning on getting the digital version, which includes getting a external hard drive, but I decided not to for now (budget is getting a little tight), so I decided to make do with the data packs instead. I didn’t expect a day one path, though. Oh well, not like I use the Wii U often for any other game.
Also, flash drives are not recommended for downloading the data packs. Don’t want to risk anything so I didn’t buy any.
Correction; flash drives are not recommended for installing any game data onto it.
I didn’t know Celica (look at the pic) was “The Last Guardian”!?!!!!!