Well the TRC has a lot more to do with console feature integration rather than performance/game bugs. Performance and game bugs are a hard thing to measure because how they impact the end user is subjective. Being able to complete a game, unlock achievements/ trophies, recognize controller disconnects, being able to get to the dashboard and back into the game are more the types of things being tested.
They do this for all releases though. Just take a look at something like Alekhine's Gun. Trash is released on all platforms all the time. Everyone is very confused as to what is actually tested for cert and it really has nothing to do with performance and general game bugs.
That's a bug that most people don't see. If a bug requires a sample size of thousands of players that becomes really hard to test. Console manufacturers probably didn't see this during their cert testing and Ubisoft might not have been aware either.
I was gonna say, I feel like certification now kind of relies on faith that some issues will be fixed with a day 1 patch. Like I remember Travis Strikes Again on Nintendo Switch not having indication during the loading screens that the game hasn't froze, it was later patched to have a animated icon.
I think most people on XSX saw it, because the game didn't save properly. But point taken.
That's basically the point. So long as it doesn't brick the hardware or open up some kind of system-wide vulnerability to exploit, they consider it on the consumer to research what piece of crap they might be buying. QA is on the developer, not the console maker.
I'm pretty sure Life of Black Tiger wasn't certified because of huge anticipated profits tho
