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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
They just require a software update and since they are subject to compulsory automatic software updates in order to be useable online anyway, that's a non-issue.
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It's nowhere near as simple as that. Every single game on those systems would need to be updated in order to facilitate online playing as they mostly use a P2P model that is not set up for IPv6 in the slightest. This is probably why Microsoft and Sony have never bothered to add IPv6 support thus far - because it would only be useful for a select few games (new titles and old titles that publishers were willing to patch, which isn't cheap).
Never mind that the console itself won't be able to connect to download the update without a valid IPv4 address (admittedly this can be somewhat mitigated with off-line updates, such as those on a disk).
I dare say the next-gen consoles will support IPv6 out of the box.