I saw this answered somewhere: the certification is only concerned with if your game bricks the console and not at all about the quality of the game itself. Ha

I saw this answered somewhere: the certification is only concerned with if your game bricks the console and not at all about the quality of the game itself. Having said that, surely someone from the certification process would have commented on it: hey guys, your game doesn't brick the base PS4, but come on, its a buggy mess!