Not going to even comment on the pie chart, except to say that only a tiny sliver of that "publishers" bit ever makes it back to the devs (i.e. the people that actually made the game).
As for consoles requiring installation, I actually just ran into that for the first time last night on my new PS3. On the 360, this isn't an issue, at least that I've encountered (although optional installation is available, for what that's worth). On the PS3, however, when I started up Heavy Rain last night, it first needed to download 220-something MB of patch, which took about 15 minutes, then needed to install that, which took another 10 or so, then on top of that needed to install the game to the console for whatever reason, which I think took another 10 or so. Their solution to this? They included a small piece of paper with the game and displayed instructions during the installation process (but not the patch download/installation process, since that was a PS3 thing and not game specific) on how to fold it into the origami thing that is on the box cover. (For what it's worth, the installation was finished before I had completed the origami... >_>)
As for the comments being shitty... well, to be blunt, it's an article that is about video games which is on a website that caters to video game fans. That the vast majority of the comments on such a website are shitty in nature is the norm, regardless of whatever the content of the article may be.
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Date: 2010-02-26 05:40 pm (UTC)As for consoles requiring installation, I actually just ran into that for the first time last night on my new PS3. On the 360, this isn't an issue, at least that I've encountered (although optional installation is available, for what that's worth). On the PS3, however, when I started up Heavy Rain last night, it first needed to download 220-something MB of patch, which took about 15 minutes, then needed to install that, which took another 10 or so, then on top of that needed to install the game to the console for whatever reason, which I think took another 10 or so. Their solution to this? They included a small piece of paper with the game and displayed instructions during the installation process (but not the patch download/installation process, since that was a PS3 thing and not game specific) on how to fold it into the origami thing that is on the box cover. (For what it's worth, the installation was finished before I had completed the origami... >_>)
As for the comments being shitty... well, to be blunt, it's an article that is about video games which is on a website that caters to video game fans. That the vast majority of the comments on such a website are shitty in nature is the norm, regardless of whatever the content of the article may be.