Well, when optical drives are no longer capable of performance fast enough to avoid load times, HD installation is going to be required. That was inevitable and

Well, when optical drives are no longer capable of performance fast enough to avoid load times, HD installation is going to be required. That was inevitable and I certainly could foresee it going back to the PS2 era; the creation of HDLoader made it pretty clear. I'd still say modern ARM is a major improvement simply because performance/power ratio-wise it's already neck and neck or better than x86 in a lot of areas. x86, dating back to the P4 era and onward, has been a painful slide into power consumption/waste heat hell.