What platform certification experience should a publisher check for?
Ask which platforms the studio has personally submitted to, how recently, and whether the accounts and SDK access were theirs or the client's. Console submission needs developer accounts, platform SDKs under NDA, and someone who has cleared a technical requirements checklist before, and the third is the rare part. A studio that has shipped through certification knows the lead times, the common rejection reasons and how long a resubmission takes. Ask how many submissions passed first time and what failed on the ones that did not. Porting and certification experience travel together, so a porting record is a useful proxy.
