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Re:Cyberpunk 2077, Supposed to Be Biggest Video Game of the ... by rvz on Friday December 25, 2020 @05:02PM (#25539380)
Oh well. Sounds like the bugs have ruined the game. At least the developers are able to fix them in updates. Could have been a lot worse if consoles were still in the age of physical copies with no way to update them.

Imagine if such games were on read-only cartridges, CDs with no update mechanisms like the PS2, Gamecube, Xbox, etc then we're looking at a complete and irreversible disaster.

Better wait until the developers fix these bugs before playing this game.

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Re:Cyberpunk 2077, Supposed to Be Biggest Video Game of the ... by philipwhiuk2 on Friday December 25, 2020 @06:59PM (#25540148)
I mean the ability to patch is why they ship broken. Games now are published to rely on Day-1 patching to fix key issues.

In the era of zero-patch gameplay the PS2 and Gamecube versions wouldn't have shipped.

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Re:Cyberpunk 2077, Supposed to Be Biggest Video Game of the ... by Grazester on Friday December 25, 2020 @05:32PM (#25539569)
The Xbox offered downloadable content in some games so I believe if it were released on this consoled it could have been patched in theory.
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