Um, so I bought this game on Friday, but I hadn't taken the shrink wrap off until now....Popped it in, downloaded an update, and now every time I try to boot it up, I get an error message: The software was closed because an error occurred.
Can't boot it up at all
Have you tried deleting the patch/game data and starting it after that in flight mode without the patch? And then redownload it again, just to see if you maybe got unlucky and have corrupted patch data?
If you press + on the home screen at the game icon, you can also check for corrupted data I think.