It depends on how impactful those updates are. I have at least 200 hours in to Tears of the Kingdom, and I’ve been avoiding updates since very early days so I can use some item duplication glitches. I haven’t run into anything that makes the game unplayable, just some glitches that I have to put effort into doing, and I think make the game much better. But Nintendo is a company that would rather push back a release date than release a broken came “on time”.

I do think the ability to push updates has made companies pretty lazy when it comes to making sure things are really solid before they ship.

If I have to choose between a game with no updates, or no game at all, I’m going to pick a game with no updates. At least I have a sporting chance.