Scoobes on 20 April 2012
In one aspect it's impacted negatively; devs can rush to meet deadlines and release half-finished games. One of the biggest problems with PC games has transferred to consoles this gen. On the other hand, it's great that devs can add additional content quickly and fix any problems that they genuinely missed during a thorough (hopefully) QC process.
I'm not too worried about publisher support in the future though. If they continue to follow the PC route they'll make patches available via third-parties. Websites like IGN or Filefront can host patches which can then be transferred/setup on consoles via USB stick/memory card. All depends on having the publishers willing to release it though.
