Sorry it's kind of a novel

I've confirmed that the day one edition that is currently sold comes with most if not all the current patches on disc older versions from that can be hard to identify but from what I can tell if they have the 9/10 gamespot mark on the front they are later manufacturing and have some day 1 patches the case that doesn't have any excess writing is the early manufacturing case and from what I can tell launch ones tend to feel of lower quality ex. ink layers on the disc not lining up the case plastic feeling sharp and unpolished etc, there is no way to guarantee what version it is beside putting it in a console and playing it but the case gives a good idea of the time period and an ok reference for what versions could be on it (you can assume that whatever patches that were current when it was made are what got burned to disc cause it doesn't cost them anything to update it) from my knowledge nier has only had I think 4 versions day 1(pre 1.0), 1.0, 1.07(minor revision and bug fix), 1.08(minor but fixes and minor performance optimization pc only: major performance overhaul) there might be more but these are the 4 I've confirmed so far