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DonFerrari said:
McGran said:
DonFerrari said:

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To start from scratch means all paperwork... if he just meant testing phase (but worded different) then yea.

DLC and patches doesn't go the whole process in Sony (was one of the complains with MS, paying and paperwork for patches).

That's fair, I was probably a little sloppy in my use of language here.

What I meant was that the software testing itself would be a completely fresh run through the set of tests.  This is essential since the ultimate risk (however unlikely) is that a system breaking bug is missed and consoles get bricked.

Regards comparisons to buggy games that passed certification - I expect (though I have no knowledge either way) that this kind of certification is less to do with the quality of the gaming experience and more to do with the impact of the software on the system software, firmware and hardware.  So my guess would be that the failure would more likely be something like a security vulnerability or a system crashing bug.


I don't do SW certification for games... and in aviation we usually don't reddo all tests because normally when past future changes won't affect the past (unless of course SW integration and the like)... but I can see that being important for vg and it's quite possible the certification is to avoid sploits not common bugs and glitches (if that was the case Jak and Daxter HD collection wouldn't have the same glitch the PS2 version had).

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