Message boards across the Internet today have been lighting up with reports of freezing problems in the recently released MLB 2K6 for the Xbox 360. IGN’s retail copies of the game are affected, but not their gold review version. So far the reports have been limited to those people with Xbox 360 consoles with the external hard drive, which suggests a software issue and not a media problem. 2K Sports has set up a forum thread to update people on the issue, and have asked all gamers experiencing the issue to contact them at techsupport@2ksports.com with “MLB 2K6 Xbox 360 freeze issue” in the subject.

This makes the third Xbox 360 game in the last few months with enough problems to warrant a fix or patch. With games like Oblivion, this might be expected, but the issue with Dead or Alive 4 should have been caught in either Team Ninja’s test process, or Microsoft’s acceptance testing. Depending on the nature of the MLB 2k6 problem, this may also be an issue that should have been caught. There do seem to be a large number of people complaining, but it is always hard to gauge the ratio of reported issues to shipped product. Still, this seems to be a bad trend, with more and more released Xbox 360 games requiring post release fixes.

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