New Pokémon Snap's First Patch Has Already Been Released, Days Ahead Of Launch

These day 1 updates are a little annoying but it's whatever, it won't deter my enjoyment from the game. I'm excited!

@Yosher It's only 125mb, it's not like other games that release 50gb day one patches

This is indeed a disturbing precedent for video game preservation.

@mariomaster96 I know, it's more the fact that day 1 patches aren't simply on the cartridges, regardless of size. Makes the base game feel slightly 'incomplete', if you know what I mean, especially in the long run when the servers are offline and patches can no longer be downloaded.

Like I said though it won't deter my enjoyment from the game here!

At least they caught whatever the issue was before the release instead of after. Good to hear.

@TheAwesomeBowser

That precedent was set many years ago.

@TheAwesomeBowser it's like people keep discussing "video game preservation" without substantial encounters with how it actually works. NDS romsets salvaged even obscure "kiosk" demos a good decade ago, but nowadays it's somehow that much harder to "dump" (a somewhat outdated term in this age, but still) the latest available patched copy of a full game?🤔 On the same front where people have routinely made unofficial patches and content hacks by themselves?

Might preorder this for my son he’s really excited about it, big in to Pokémon since Sword / Shield. He’s absolutely loving Plants Vs. Zombies too at the minute, just as an aside

Is this what people meant when they suggested that Nintendo ought to be more like the competition?

It would be nice if they completed these games before releasing them.

I wonder what it fixed?

@nhSnork Well this is a ninty site alot of them dont believe in dumping games

To a lot of nintendo fans "preservation" means hanging onto a flash cart and assuming it'll live forever lol

@Yosher The tricky part is that the cartridges were produced weeks, if not months ago, i still miss the old "Buy a game, insert the cartridge (Into the console, perverts!), play"-days though...

@Yosher Yeah I hate it too... I'm just going to wait till this game drops in price and then buy it. Hopefully I get the game from a new patch since these comes with the patch installed on the cartridge itself.
I said it before but I would pay Nintendo to put the last updates on my cart ridge.

@BrintaPap Switch cardridges are readonly. Once the game is written onto it, nobody can change the code. For Nintendo to make an update to the cartridge they would have to reproduce them. (Which indeed sometimes happens)

Good old Day 1 updates. On one hand, it's an excuse for developers to not work on the game on a time constraint. On the other, it allows them to fix the game at any given time.

@ModdedInkling
Working on a less strict time constraint is a good thing, not an excuse.

I'd like to play this but it's a bit too pricey.

@AmplifyMJ I love that game as well 😊

@westman98
Never meant to say it was a bad thing. It's just that so many of these complaints about bad resolution and bad frame rate is starting to bug me that I had to say it.

@nhSnork I agree it’ll probably be simple to get the updates in the future via emulation or a hacked system. Hell, look at the Wii U! You can easily download any update for any game with the press of a button!

But natively running the game in 15 years or so when the servers are probably down strips out some parts or important bug fixes for games. I’m not too concerned about it as the majority or Nintendo titles seem to have most non-online stuff on the cart, but it’s an interesting talking point for sure.

Plot twist, they pulled a Tony Hawk and the game isn't even on the cartridge because they needed more time to make the game but they had to hit a firm release schedule.

I am excited for the comments

I'm not bothered by a day 1 patch because I just want to play the best version of the game. I'm glad they caught the bug.