What really bugs you about the One?

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kowenicki said:

WagnerPaiva said:
To me the worst is:
1 - used games fee.
2 - have to log on everyday
3- the kinect always on
4- the focus on casual
5 - the focus on tv
6 - the crappy dancing games
7- mandatory installs
8- the still paid online gaming
9- no real benefits for the price of online gaming (like psn plus).
10- lack of respect for real gamers

mandatory installs? thats a bad thing?

HDD space isn't infinite. So wasting HDD space by compelling installation of 100% of a disc's contents will become pretty irksome for anyone who buys a substantial number of games. It also limits the space available for XBLA games. So I can see this policy cutting into the sales potential of XBLA titles because people will decide to prioritise HDD space for the on-disc games. So it's conceivable that this requirement could actually depress game sales slightly.

It's another unneccessary impost, making something mandatory that is inherently unnecessary is a bad thing unless a substantial benefit to the consumer can be demonstrated. What's the substantial benefit to the consumer in this? Compulsory install is not a gamer benefit at all, the reason for it is to provide a benefit to MS and/or the publisher. People who think MS and the publishers need more control over gamers will, I suppose, see this compulsion as a good thing. But for those who think MS and publishers don't need more control over gamers mandatory install is an unwelcome imposition.

True there will be a performance benefit to running games of the HDD rather than the BRD. But that will only be a relatively small % performance lift, and this doesn't at all justify this sort of compulsion. Is there a technical reason for why it would be bad for full install to be optional?