Will the WiiU have the option for full install for all retail games?

[Corey]

TomaTito said:

Corey said:

TomaTito said:

Corey said:
With many consumers sitting there with 8GB of space I doubt they would bother, install 2 big games and then it's full.

Problem is WiiU's drive is faster than the PS3's so it doesn't need to do installs.

Yea that is true, It can read discs substantially faster than the current gen, but with such a small hardrive the inability to do installs in the long run could be a potential downside.

It's a downside when potential consumers can't be bothered to upgrade their storage via the options given to them. They still have the option to go out and buy another system with four times more storage if they are that lazy.

No, I was more thinking along the lines of game performance and capabilites, for example many much larger games espiacilly on the PS3 rely on rather large installs to reduce load times and make the games run smoothly, the wiiu disc drive speed eliminates such a need for installs at this point in time and with the current generation games but in the future when the more powerful machines are released and when developers are utilising the wiiu hardware the inability to do these mandatory installs could hurt the possibility of potential ports  from the NextBox/PS4 and other 3rd party titles from reaching the wiiu altogether or at least prevent them from running at optimal performance. With a large portion of their userbase using 8GB hard drives there is no way devs could release a game with a mandatory 5gb install.