Microsoft revealed that it sent Perfect Dark Zero to be mass produced before it had passed final certification, a process that takes two weeks the game team didn't have. If it had failed, some 700,000 copies would been dumpstered and the game would have missed next Tuesday's Xbox 360 launch. Then again, if they had waited until it passed to manufacture the discs, Microsoft still would have missed launch - so it was a gamble worth taking. Besides, insiders say Rare is so meticulous in their polishing phase that the risk was actually quite minimal. The good news is that it passed...
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