If you have bought a new system for your kids you should open it up and set it all up with the internet and updates. Also install the game and any updates NOW or else the kids won't be able to do anything with it on Christmas day.
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If you have bought a new system for your kids you should open it up and set it all up with the internet and updates. Also install the game and any updates NOW or else the kids won't be able to do anything with it on Christmas day.
If these kids are teenagers, you should just let them do it though. If a kid is old enough they like to do it themselves usually.
No kids on my end. But I did it for my cousin a few years ago when playstation 4 was the hot item. I even went the extra mile and wrapped it in my old Xbox box. Mean, maybe. But he would have been happy with whatever system. It was a great holiday.
Slight edit,: He wanted the playstation.
This is going off of limited research, because I don't use consoles anymore:
It's possible a teenager may prefer you to do it the usb way. It limits the update download times and allows them to do it themselves. It depends no who the person is. Their personality matters. The more tech oriented or independent the teenager is, the more likely they would want to do it themselves.
If I'm wrong about usb being viable, correct me. It probably also allows the teenager to spend more time with family during the updates anyway, and if for some reason they do struggle, a family member can help them 'learn how to fish.'
He's talking about how the networks tend to crash on Christmas because of all the load from gifts. So yes, it is better to set up in advance so they can actually play games.
At least, that's how I read it. But yes, some games also have 50gig updates which are ridiculous.
Settings can be changed, and the setup can be redone from scratch if they really care that much. However, network congestion from a million people trying to update their systems during the initial setup after unboxing on Christmas day is lost time that could have been spent gaming if the parents had done initial setup and updates early, and that time can't be reclaimed.
Nah... you make them start all the installs and updates after they open it so they have nothing to do but spend time with family till it's done... >.>
I'm not here to debate what activities you think kids should or should not be participating in on a given day. It is not relevant to my or the OP's point.
If someone wants their kid to be able to enjoy the present they got on the day they got it instead of having to wait until potentially the next day for the congestion on the update servers to die down, they should be updated ahead of the unwrapping.
Oh haha no kids for me! I just work in the gaming retail industry and the amount of angry parents I get when their child is upset they can't do ANYTHING with their system cause of all the updating and what not made me put this PSA up for anyone who is a parent on here.
Huh, well thanks for the heads-up if I get nephew and nieces next gen consoles.
Letting them set it up keeps them occupied for that much longer.