Perfect Dark Zero Pressed Before it Passed Certification Options

[XanTium]

Perfect Dark Zero Pressed Before it Passed Certification -- Posted by XanTium on November 17 13:18 EST
From next-gen.biz:
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In order to guarantee Xbox 360 launch-day availability of flagship title Perfect Dark Zero, Microsoft sent the game to manufacture before it had passed certification.

It was an extraordinary gamble. The game passed certification after the disks had been pressed. If the company had waited for certification to come through before okaying manufacture, Perfect Dark Zero would not have been available at the launch of Xbox 360.
Having ordered replication of the disks, Microsoft and Rare had to cross their fingers for a positive certification. If Microsoft's notoriously strict procedure - which we understand was not eased for PDZ in any way - had failed, the disks would have been trashed and the game would have been late.
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[chilin_dude]

good gamble

[NarutoKun]

yeah, smart thinking M$

[KAGE360]

sometimes risks have to be taken and i can surely see why this one happened. i think they did the right move, now we will have it on launch day.

[davidjata]

Gotta love it !

They planned this for months and still couldn't get it right. I'm less impressed day by day.

[KAGE360]

Gotta love it !

They planned this for months and still couldn't get it right. I'm less impressed day by day.

no one can plan or predict when a game will be finished. i dont know how you can give a valid opinion or impression on things you know little of. if every day brings more dissapointment your way, why do you post here? maybe you should be posting in a ps3 forum where vaporware and Rendered videos get you excited.

[rony2211]

hey guys just to let you know i have family that work in one of the factories that are making 360 games and was told that QC on the first run of games is horrible to say the least that the plan is to let them go out and see what happens and MS is fully aware of the problem but when you set a date for global launch you don't want to be seen as not prepared

[incognegro]

Gotta love it !

They planned this for months and still couldn't get it right. I'm less impressed day by day.

This is actually very positive news, i didnt think anybody would find anything negative to say about it but i guess i was wrong

[atomheartmother]

hey guys just to let you know i have family that work in one of the factories that are making 360 games and was told that QC on the first run of games is horrible to say the least that the plan is to let them go out and see what happens and MS is fully aware of the problem but when you set a date for global launch you don't want to be seen as not prepared 

Sorry I think you sir are full of it..

[atriphy]

i take this as good news the more rushed the more chance they miss somthing and BINGO exploit. see heres to my fingers crosed

[MadEx]

So this is why I haven't been able to find reviews of PDZ yet... well, here's to hoping we'll get them over the weekend.

[rony2211]

OK so what am i full of shit about let see if you do a little searching you will see i live in weaverville nc and the factory is called sono press and it my family who actually works one the 360 presses and have to turn in every spindle of games that are pressed to QC for inspecting as you would not want to run a billion scratched disk and they do some high tech scanning crap and are letting disk go that are not up to MS standards as per ms for launch as for me being full of shit i know what I'm talking about it is you who cant Evan think that the big MS would do such a thing but it does and is happening

[rony2211]

i take this as good news the more rushed the more chance they miss somthing and BINGO exploit. see heres to my fingers crosed

i was thinking the samething

[Hoogabooga]

OK so what am i full of shit about let see if you do a little searching you will see i live in weaverville nc and the factory is called sono press and it my family who actually works one the 360 presses and have to turn in every spindle of games that are pressed to QC for inspecting as you would not want to run a billion scratched disk and they do some high tech scanning crap and are letting disk go that are not up to MS standards as per ms for launch as for me being full of shit i know what I'm talking about it is you who cant Evan think that the big MS would do such a thing but it does and is happening

you should go work in a bull shit factory too. if you didnt realize, everything you just said there was in one big sentence, and since i dont see you as being an educated man... factory work for you

[KAGE360]

OK so what am i full of shit about let see if you do a little searching you will see i live in weaverville nc and the factory is called sono press and it my family who actually works one the 360 presses and have to turn in every spindle of games that are pressed to QC for inspecting as you would not want to run a billion scratched disk and they do some high tech scanning crap and are letting disk go that are not up to MS standards as per ms for launch as for me being full of shit i know what I'm talking about it is you who cant Evan think that the big MS would do such a thing but it does and is happening 

whether or not your telling the truth is pointless. i believe you because you SHOULD have no reason to lie. however the quality check that they are talking about isnt done at the factories where the game is pressed so maybe your friend is BSing you or just mistaken as well. they are talking about game testing, bug checking, glitches and stuff like that. basically they sent a code to be pressed that may have had bugs beyond their approval rating. but since the testing and calibrating worked out, they didnt need to recall all the pressed disks and were able to send them out to shipping.