Next Generation Consoles

[ChaosK]

uh.. xbox360 scratch your CD when you move the console, not the Gamecube... many time i have moved my gamecube while playing (my mom wanted to "clean" the dust... lol) and all my CD are still "Like-New" .

and while burning a CD on my PC i sometime move it too, and never freaking happen to me having a stupid disk failed to burn or something that just happen when you try to copy a big files at a too high speed

Never happened with my PS2 either.

[BioAlien]

so what he said was total bullshit, because even if they say not to move it, a good console is not suppose to scratch all your CD by just moving it a little and it is inevitable that someday, your console will be moved while you(or someone else) play on it, by yourself, a friends or someone in your familly.

[RyougaZell]

A friend of mine has a fuked-up PS2. The only way it reads games is to turn it upside down.
And thus he inserts the disc, leaves the PS2 on (he's lazy and won't turn off and then on again), turns the PS2 upside down, and then plays.
He's never gotten a scratched disc this way.

[BioAlien]

and that prove the Xbox360 suck big time, until microsoft correct those bug i am so not buying one of those

[darkshadow]

what i say is bullshit? where did i say the ps2 or gc scratch the disc? i said THEY WARN YOU NOT TO MOVE IT, if you ignore the warning and something happens its your own damn fault, and if the burning/copying doesnt fail, it will stall for the time that it moves, IT WILL, the stall can range from 1 sec to a full minute.

again if you didnt understand me, i said, the booklets WARN not the move it when its on, if you do you suck and deserve to have some problem, its like clicking a stupid "you win" banner, getting spyware afterwards and then complain, the warning is there dont deny it, and btw there are ps2's that do scratch discs, if yours doesnt, you simply have a drive that doesnt ( there ARE multiple drives you know... )

edit: for the person who gave me neg rep on this one, you are obviously retarded.

[Ryllharu]

First of all, my old CD player used to do this too. That's why you didn't rotate them 90 degrees when they were running. It's caused by the rotational inertia of the disk and some obstruction that wasn't accounted for during rotating a console while it was on in the initial design. There's absolutely NO reason that a design engineer should have to take that into account. Common sense alone tells you that it shouldn't be done. It's like a fork in a toaster. It says all over the toaster not to do it, but people do it anyway. Is it really the fault of the toaster maker?

The new version of the 360 will feature a cooler running chipset and the drive scratch effect will be repaired, so you can stop complaining about it when those come out. MS said this months ago when the problem was first revealed, but either way, as darkshadow says, they do warn you about it, so really, you can only blame yourself. They'll never announce when they put them out though.

There are always problems with the first production set of any major electronics like this, and if you don't think other systems don't have these, think again. Gamecube used to run a little hot (not that it ultimately affected anything, but it was mentioned), the PS2's gunked up with dust and died and the dvd didn't always work after that (I've taken apart and cleaned mine 5 times). Coca-Cola used to have a liberal dosage of cocaine, 2nd generation iMacs had a poor cd drive design (in my opinion anyway), Service packs for Windows, etc. Things have flaws, no design is perfect.

And the first Death Star had ventilation ports you could shoot a pair of proton torpedoes down, just like the PS3's got.

[LaZie]

I'm getting myself a Wii for christmas and a PS3 next christmas (hopefully the prices would have lowered by then)