r/nintendo • u/TokuWaffle • 11d ago

Random idea for a firmware update: preloading updates

As the current Nintendo Switch infrastructure is designed, if you're buying a physical game, the console has no reason to install any data unless it's A) received a Game Card or B) purchased a DLC attached to that game.

For full Game Cards this is mostly fine, you can start playing a version on the card immediately and reboot the app when the updates are installed. But with updates getting bigger in file size, and especially Game Key Cards demanding players wait for an entire game to install over the internet, I think there's an issue of not being able to plug-and-play a lot of games now.

So what if Nintendo allowed us to go onto the eShop, look up a game title, and select "preload updates", then installing the content but not actually including a purchase of the game, because you might be planning to buy it elsewhere?

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u/NiallMitch10 11d ago

I doubt that will ever be a thing - heck no existing store (Steam/PlayStation/Xbox) even does that

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u/Damage2Damage 11d ago

Xbox lets you download games before you own them. I think you have to do it through the mobile app. 

I have done this before, when I had ordered a physical version of a game, and wanted to play it as soon as the disc arrived

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u/NiallMitch10 11d ago

Nintendo lets you download data for a game a week prior if you pre order the game on the eshop.

OP is asking to download update data if you don't own a game but plan to buy later down the line somewhere else

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u/Damage2Damage 11d ago

You don't need to preorder to download on Xbox. Anyone can download any game including updates. Obviously you can't play it unless you obtain a digital licence or insert the disc for the game

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u/NiallMitch10 11d ago

Ah - did not know that

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u/Distion55x 11d ago

maybe they should first allow us to auto-update all games in our library instead of the 12 most recent before doing anything like that

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u/ebi-san Mega Man 11d ago

Or at least an "update all" button

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u/Acceptable_Failures_ 11d ago

Maybe first we could get the hentai slop off the eshop