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Well actually it would be better if the install was optional .Its an issue thats for sure ,not a big issue but a issue all the same .

What it seems though is that the future will rely a lot in the combination between HDD and optical drive .

I read an article a lot of years ago that was heading that way .It was in an european mag when the Commodore CDTV was introduced (it was basically a Laptop with Amiga technology and a CD drive that did run the best looking games of the time The Fractal Engine one of the first ones to use poligonal graphics over a prerendered backdrop ) .Many developers were interviewed and they said that optical drives were a massive push in storage capacity and reading times would be faster and faster and they also contempled the increasing HDD capacity in the PC to install things as a great thing due to the high speed of the HDD .Most of them ,though ,said that the real revolution would be when HDD and optical technology was used toghether and optimized .It was a lot of years ago ,but this has remembered me about that .

And as ssj12 says its worse for some Xbox owners ,some of them dont have any HDD and most of them have a 15 GB one and some games as Burnout Paradise and Crackdown wont run in their machines without installing .