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I've installed games on my PC's since I was nine years old, can't say it has botched the gaming experience for me in the slightest.
Perhaps people feel it is a PC thing that ruins a console, but the way I see; getting better performance to improve a game on a games machine is not redundant, and at this point with games taking 15-20GB's and upward, it'd be folly not to consider streaming some data from a harddrive as opposed to all of it from slow optics. The size and speed of harddrives have long since outrun optical media which still has pitiful -per second- load in's in comparison.