[DaoVeles]

An aside but this is why I was blown away by Mario Odyssey on the Switch. While it did get patches to add a few new games modes and bonuses, there was nothing done to fix anything broken with the title because there wasn't anything. If you buy a physical copy from the last few years, there is no additional patch to download.

They had all the issues sorted out before release, very rare nowadays.

[gambiting]

Oh it definitely has bugs and glitches - tonnes of them in fact. It's just that Nintendo chooses not to fix them(not that they should, 90% of them are basically people actively trying to break stuff, although some I can see how you could do it accidentally).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWYmV0bs15w

https://www.mariowiki.com/List_of_Super_Mario_Odyssey_glitch...

And issues have been fixed in patches too, like the first glitch on that list that would lock your camera so you couldn't turn it - that was fixed in a patch.

"If Mario performs a Cap Throw at Talkatoo and talks to him at the same time, the camera will lock into place.[...] As of the February 21, 2018 update, this glitch is fixed"

But there are situations that will literally crash the game to the OS too:

"In the Bowser's Moon Wedding objective, if Mario falls into the lava just as he is about to capture Bowser, the game immediately crashes."

[DaoVeles]

That's for that recap! (Pun intended!).

I should have been more specific by being more vague. The game didn't need to be patched for the vast majority of its common use. I would be surprised if there are any games with a degree of freedom that you couldn't crash if you did just the right thing. But for 99.99% of players, they will never come across these things.

What I should have said is that if left un-patched, most people would never hit a problem.

But I really appreciate the heads up about all the glitches people are using, very cool.