I've seen this thrown around a lot on the boards, and it simply isn't true. We don't say "We'll fix it in the patch" when we find something broken unless the game is already finalled. We don't use the patching system as a way to rush games out the door. If anything is broken on the final retail version of the game it is because it was missed by our testers, EA testers, Sony testers, and MS testers.