>This. Why spend extra on x3d cpu when you can have a reasonable game size (not that it has large enough cache anyway)

Because game(SW) devs/publishers don't care about spending money to optimize for reasonable size, and the enthusiast gamers want to play the game either way and will gladly fork out the cash for the HW to play it, if anything for the bragging rights.

Remember "will it run Crysis?" vintage 2007? Yeah, enthusiasts will be enthusiasts.

I'm a fan of the free market here. Badly optimized games will hurt their sales and force the studios to change or go bust, if the market decides so.