| zarx said: .. But, look at iOS. There is almost no certification process for iOS, so by the Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo theory, the apps should be crashing all the time, everyone should think of iOS as sucky, etc. But in fact this is not what is happening. There is no public outcry for more testing and robustness of iOS software. Part of this may be that iOS software is so easily patched; so maybe a heavy cert process made sense back in the disc-only days, but as we go into the next console generation it becomes unnecessary. But something tells me that Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo are not really going to let up on cert, even though they say they will. It’s just “not in their DNA” as they say. The proof of this is the bizarre over-complexification that already happens with console games today, and is baked into the current certifications, that any of them could easily fix, but none of them do, because they don’t care. ...
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i'm going to disagree with the first one. a lot of apps have pretty big issues. i always read the reviews. the thing is though it is sort of self regulating as software that crashes is software that people don't buy.
but i'm going to wholeheartedly agree with the seond part. patches have become a part of life for console games now. the upfront bug checking is imporant but now that their is an avenue to fix issues leave it to the developer. i promise they are going to do their best in order to ensure their own reputation isn't trashed.
