PS4 has the same slate of options. The Switch I believe only ever updates when on. 

Steam on my PC is also very configurable when it comes to when update downloads, along with throttling options. 

None of this matters though. Most of these games that cause such traffic bursts are very large, often global games. 3am for one carrier is 3pm for a carrier somewhere else. 

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 22:03 Brandon Jackson via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
Xbox One has 2 options, always one (equivalent to windows sleep) and will wake up occasionally for updates, and power save (equivalent to hibernate ish) it will not wake up for updates.


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On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 21:51 Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
IIRC, game consoles are always on, whether they're "on" or not.



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From: "Tom Beecher" <beecher@beecher.cc>
To: "Darin Steffl" <darin.steffl@mnwifi.com>
Cc: Nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2020 5:13:19 PM
Subject: Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Not everybody leaves their console/PC on 24/7 so that they would pull the patch at 3am local even if that’s when it was released. 

It’s far from reckless. It’s not the game companies job to make sure the network works. That’s our job. 

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 14:37 Darin Steffl <darin.steffl@mnwifi.com> wrote:
Shouldn't game patches like this be released overnight during off-peak hours? Fortnite releases their updates around 3 or 4am when most ISP's networks are at their lowest utilization. It seems somewhat reckless to release such a large patch during awake hours. 

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 12:08 PM Brandon Jackson via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
"Call of Duty: Modern Warfare fragged our business VOIP: US ISP blames outage on smash-hit video game rush
This is Windstream, going dark..."

Apparently not everyone came out unscathed.

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Brandon Jackson


On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 10:14 AM Aaron Gould <aaron1@gvtc.com> wrote:

My gosh, what in the word was that coming out of my local Akamai aanp servers yesterday !?  starting at about 12:00 noon central time lasting several hours ?

 

-Aaron