Capcom: Sony's software approval process takes two weeks

by Majed Athab { Nov 10th 2008 at 3:00PM }

Ever wondered exactly how long it takes Sony to approve gaming software for its systems? Roughly two weeks says Capcom in its Ask Capcom Round-Up. SCEA usually gets things done "in five to seven days most times," said Capcom's Christian Svensson; however, SCEE likes to take its sweet time with two full weeks, but with a transparent system actively letting companies know of problems as it's being reported.

If a game passes the evaluation, then it's all done. But, if it fails, then the process continues. Sven explains further, "...you generally want to get reports from SCEA and SCEE, fix all issues and resubmit to both at the same time. ... It's usually about five to six days after a fail report before you're resubmitted and the process begins again. It's usually another two weeks minimum before you could possibly have approval (and that's assuming you don't bounce a second time)." So, if you ever read another quote from a developer stating "'we're just waiting on approval from Sony," you now have an estimate of how long that wait is going to be.

[Via Kotaku]

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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gillyallan114 @ Nov 10th 2008 3:13PM

Actually intersting article. I just assumed it would be a couple of days.

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Jon Acheson @ Nov 10th 2008 4:01PM

My first response is "no wonder this generation of games has been a buggy mess." Sony sure isn't doing much QC gatekeeping on a 10 day turnaround.

Of course, it's primarily the responsibility of the game company to do the testing, but still.

Nibber Jammies @ Nov 10th 2008 4:01PM

So how on earth did SOCOM manage to get by these guys with that amount of time to look at it? Don't get me wrong, I love the game when it works well. It just doesn't work well very often. Surely they might have had some sense of that? I know they can't reproduce server load....or maybe they can....but the fact that SOCOM got released that buggy was a travesty.