Background Patching Coming To PS3?


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We?ve had word off the record that the PS3 should, at some point, get background downloading for game patches. One of my few personal issues with the PS3 (and indeed modern gaming in general) is that every time the developers patch a game you need to sit and wait for the new version to download before you can play online. However, if our source is to be believed, this could change.

Naturally, Sony aren?t commenting on this one, and we do have to stress that this is very much a rumour at this point as TheSixthAxis cannot verify the information but if the PS3 can figure out which games you own (or at least, have played recently) and automatically grab the latest patches in the background whilst you play another game then this would make at least one person very happy indeed.

Potentially rather brilliant ? so how do you feel about this?

Source: http://www.thesixthaxis.com/2010/04/27/background-patching-coming-to-ps3/comment-page-2/

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I like the idea, I mean if we are already connected to the internet while playing a single player game, it might as well do something like that in the background. I hope this is true and gets implemented soon.

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I've heard of this before when the rumours were swirling about the firmware update last year that was supposed to be released with cross chat.

Does sound good; patches on the PS3 take an age to download, even with a wired connection.

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I am all for this, the number of times I have had some friends over and decided to have a laugh on a game to find that we are stuck downloading some patch. God forbid it's one of those games that's been patched multiple times since the last play through.

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Something that has always puzzled me about downloading game patches on the PS3 is that you can't download them in the background like you can with things you download from the Playstation Store.

How would installing the patches factor in to this setup though? Would the installation also be done in the background (while you're playing a game, for example) or would you still need to install the patches before you could play the game?

Either way, I'm for it. Let's hope it happens.

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