[stomachmonkey]

Edit to my earlier comment, was running out the door to a meeting.

All games go through testing, QA.

Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo are what we refer to as 1st parties.

1st party titles go through additional testing by the 1st parties themselves as part of the certification process.

There are different classes of bugs and games do ship with some bugs.

We might get away with a big one and a couple of minor ones if their frequency of occurrence / repeatability are low or they occur in a situation the player is not likely to encounter.

The situation you describe is a cert fail. It's a non starter. There is a class of bugs that stop the testing process cold and the game immediately fails cert, that's one of them.

Now it is possible that scenario could cause damage but unlikely.

If during QA it fails that test every time or several times out of X times it was tried it's a fail.

If it happened once and is not repeatable we'll likely get a pass.

So the short answer is, no, it's not an issue.

I've been in the gaming business for a long time.

Coming up on 28 years now.