Rumor - Next gen consoles may allow developers to self patch games
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The giant issues that stem from the current generation of consoles if that EACH time a developer wants to publish a new patch they are required to submit it through the hardware makers internal QA department. While this at first implies better quality overall what happened was up to two month wait times for game NOT published by AAA studios. A example of this being that a CoD patch would be pushed through in the length of a week while a lesser known and played game like Phantasy Star Universe was plagued with month plus wait times for the patch to reach players.
The entire process means it is quite expensive to publish patches on these platforms. The rumor going around is that on the PS4 and the next xbox developers will be able to self-publish patches due to the devices both having been built with the well established PC x86 architecture. Keep checking back for details on their rumors here at TheTechGame!
Developers has always patch their own game. It's been like that for a long time. Doing this will not mean the patch will release faster. The developers will have to find the fix for the patch, fix it and compress the files and then send it to the console's company like Sony or Microsoft and they'll check if it doesn't affect their update restrictions or rules (what ever you want to call it).
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