Comment by greggman3

From the platform providers POV it's not "a simple bug fix". It's "schedule hundreds of hours of testing on this new binary blob the developer sent us".

> That article has a developer literally saying that in the end, their percentage of the profit on the XBox 360 was a negative number

Then maybe they shouldn't have shipped buggy software. Go back a few years and they'd have shipped a CD/DVD/ROM and no patching available.