Quote Originally Posted by Naunet View Post
I'm not really familiar with PS3 stuff, so why would this be a legitimate reason? o.0
It needs to go through Sony. It's much less time consuming and more cost effective to package a bunch of updates together and then send it to the PS3.

A quote on the subject.

Quote Originally Posted by Tim Schafer
Those systems as great as they are, they’re still closed. You have to jump through a lot of hoops, even for important stuff like patching and supporting your game. Those are things we really want to do, but we can’t do it on these systems. I mean, it costs $40,000 to put up a patch [...]
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Assuming SE worked out some kind of deal with Sony, I can't imagine it being as efficient as using their existing infrastructure.