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Shadow1980 said:
Wouldn't better file compression and faster Blu-ray drives obviate the need for mandatory game installs? If so, then extremely large and fast hard drives wouldn't be necessary unless you're primarily buying digital.

Currently, the fastes consumer bluray drive is a 16x drive.... thats a theoretical peak of 72MB/s.

Even if by next gen that number doubles and they can afford to put that kinda drive in a console, it still won't be as good as what we can potentially get with even a sata 3 based drive solution.