The latest patch for Fallout NV has hit the Xbox. I'm very happy that I can load my saved games again, and it's really cool that your companion shows up on the map.
Almost every game on the PS3 and Xbox 360 will have an update/patch to download at some point. Some of these updates fix MAJOR problems with the game, like the Fallout NV bug mentioned above.
But this made me think. What happens 10 years from now when I want to play this game again? I dust off the old xbox/ps3 or maybe I buy one off the internet, pawn shop, garage sale, etc....
I put in the Fallout NV disk and I'm stuck playing a broken game. I assume that the patch is no longer on PSN or Xbox Live since those networks will be long gone, having been replaced by whatever network the newer console will use.
These patches need to be able to either
1) be downloaded as burnable disk image
2) be able to request the company send you a physical disk with the patch on it. (hell, I'd even pay a couple bucks for this)
Either of these will ensure that these games will always be playable as their final, fixed version for years to come.
NOTES:
Don't think that I'm purposely picking on Xbox or leaving out PS3. This idea hit me when playing the super-broken Fallout NV on Xbox, so that's what I talked about.
Before someone says "Buy the PC version", that only applies to games like Fallout that are also available on PC. What about GT5 and Gears of War 2?
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I haven't bought a game disk since 2006.
You are kind of contradicting yourself here.. the scenario is that 10 years down the road you buy an old XBox, put the NV disk in and play it. BUT you say you want the patch from 10 years ago even though there is, like you said, the 'latest and greatest'. Wouldn't this latest patch have fixed the bugs found in the earlier patch? I don't understand what you're trying to say here :3
I'm sure all the latest/last patches will be saved somewhere.
I agree and disagree with you. I think that the ability to burn patches to a disk or something would be a great option, however I would never pay a company to get them to send me something to fix the problems they overlooked/created in their game. And to agree with jay2 If you still have your Xbox360 or PS3 10 years down the road you probably still have the HDD that goes with it. The patches, at least with PS3, are all saved to the HDD, I believe the same is true for Xbox. Currently with the PS3, again not sure about the Xbox, you can copy game data patches included (although most of the time the patch is separate data) onto a flash drive. From there you plug the flash drive into your computer and copy the data onto a CD and than you have your copy. 10 years later copy the data on the CD back to a flash drive than copy it back to your PS3, and problem solved. Again not sure if this works with Xbox360.