Correct. M$ and $ony require a pointless approval.
EDIT: You can expect the update on January.
Its not pointless. They instigated these procedures after making massive gaffs themselves with software releases. Sony have in the past released demo's and updates that have wiped memory cards clean, made games inoperable on certain models of console, have made controllers unresponsive for that system etc etc. So now they verify everything to make sure core functions are not funked up. As for MS, well we dont even need to list some of the massive errors they have pumped out over the years before instigating verification.
So yeah its a extremely important step when it comes to consoles. Calling it pointless shows lack of understanding as to why its done in the first place. However it does take to long imo, and could easily be speeded up if they both employed more staff and didnt make everyone fork over massive handfulls of cash to have it done.