Buying your loved one a game console this holiday? Do this before Christmas morning

It would be dope if things were how they used to be. Saturday morning cartoons, music on MTV, and software that’s finished when it ships. But it’s 2017, and everything is weird now. Along with that weirdness comes some inconveniences that can catch you by surprise come Christmas morning. If you’re buying your kid, spouse, or parent (mom, don’t read this article) a video game console for Christmas, do them a favor and open it for them.

No, no. I don’t mean for you to tear gleefully into the box while they watch in confusion.

Whether you’re buying a Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony system for your loved one this year, they all have one thing in common: Update Required.

Just about every gaming system these days is going to ask you to update it when you unbox it. The update might be a couple megs, it might be a few hundred. Heck, it might be a couple gigs at this point. And more than any other day of the year, tons of people are hooking up brand new PlayStation and Xbox consoles and trying to get playing. It can create a glut of traffic that can make the updates unbearably slow. Even if it did go smoothly, it’s still a long wait.

So, after Junior is in bed, or say, your mom who loves Zelda games, unbox the system – carefully – and hook it up. Go online. Get that update loaded up. Most of the big updates systems will see this fall are already out, so your chances are pretty good that things will still be ready when the snow’s falling outside.

Article source: https://www.technobuffalo.com/2017/12/16/update-new-consoles-before-christmas/