When Jonathan Blow complained about the release criteria that Microsoft wants for any Xbox game and Xbox Live Game I was truly impressed: He wrote somewhere tha

When Jonathan Blow complained about the release criteria that Microsoft wants for any Xbox game and Xbox Live Game I was truly impressed: He wrote somewhere that the game had to be runnable for 4 days, so even the tiniest memory leak would really kill it. He also complained that the mandatory "Do not turn off console while saving" was annoying, he wanted the game to just open up with the first scene. He managed to do this by writing all save games to a temp file and renaming them... I'm a bit torn here: It sucks how Microsoft again and again destroys something valuable they have created. It's interesting that the platform criteria and testing criteria are a pain for the developers but enforced. But it's quite impressive that at least theoretically any Xbox game is thoroughly tested!