Out of curiosity, anyone know what the process is like for Sony|Microsoft? I'm curious how long those take.
Amusingly, I have experience with those two... but not Nintendo. And I'm talking from PS2/Xbox era here:
Both are infuriatingly pernickety, and will sometimes exercise what appears to be a double-standard, where favoured games seem to get passes where the average game does not. That might well have changed since they installed the points system for certifying games, though. Microsoft's QA folks wrote *much* better explanations of the certification failures.
In Sony's case, it always felt like Europe were kinda stricter than the US branch.
Cert process was probably a week from delivery to report, but I don't know the minutae about booking cert slots.
(And, I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but I did notice that the games I did with EA happened to pass certification first time)