No, the issue will come though with authentication such as with XBOX Live Arcade titles. If you buy one, and say your XBOX needs to be repaired and you send it in, you can download the game with no charge but you are unable to play it offline. You have to be connected to Live. Supposedly MS is exploring a fix for this.
I meant more because of firmwares, jury-rigged console OSes, expansion downloads and glitchy installers. But that was at the back of my mind, too.
DRM--the gigantic cockblock of the digital age.
Well, MS's patch updater/install works just fine. Most expansion downloads work fine as well as the Live Arcade, Marketplace and other downloads. There can always be an unforseen glitch even if you buy a PC game down and download a patch. Look what happened with the Shivering Isles expansion for both the PC and 360! If you've ever been much of a PC gamer (like myself), then you are well aware of what patches can do to boink something up.
It is particularly worse with a PC because a patch can break anything from saves, to your specifc computer configuration and it is frustruating to all hell. With a console you have a limited set of components and configurations to deal so there is less room for error much like Apple has with the Mac when a patch comes through.