Moving the New 360 Can Damage Disks

[PureChaos]

why would you move it while you are playing it in the first place?

 

[Pendragon9]

Wow, this is an extreme fail. I can move any console in my library while playing, and nothing will happen.

Geez, even my flimsy Ps1 didn't suck this much. :/

 

[imaloony]

What made him think moving it was a good idea in the first place? Wasn't that rule number 1 of the 360 to start with? Don't move the console while the disk is spinning!

A big design flaw, to be sure, but if you don't move it while it's running (Which you shouldn't be doing anyways) it'll be fine.

 

[sluggyfreelancer]

Nothing new. I wouldn't move any console anyway, at least not vertical to horizontal.

 

[ActionDan]

..Yet the last console generation, you could move as much as you wanted while in a game and nothing would happen. So now with the latest consoles they are getting weaker in design?

 

[Generator]

While I have no idea why you would want to move your game system while a game was loading, it still seems like a problem which Microsoft should have worked on remedying when they made a new version of their system. I mean, what's the point of making a new system if you aren't going to fix the bugs that the old one had?

 

[pwnzerstick]

The original one did as well, I had Mass Effect in it, and tried moving the console, but the disk shifted out of place and got scratched.

 

[DirkGently]

I seriously cannot believe this is an issue for people. This has been the rule for CD players since they fucking came out. I've had this happen with walkman. Y'know, the portable CD player that's designed to be used when walking? Seriously, it's goddamned retarded to move your xbox (Or CD player, DVD player, BD player, etc) while the disc is in and spinning. If you do so, it's your own damn fault and you deserve to suffer the consequences and shouldn't blame microsoft for something that's your own damn fault.

 

[Sh0ckFyre]

Um... Ok? I think anyone and everyone with an IQ of at least ALIVE knows not to move a spinning media while its spinning. Whoever thinks that this is a flaw of epic proportions on Microsoft's part is a fucking idiot who deserves to get their brain sucked out by a whore with a drinking straw.

 

[duchaked]

I wouldn't call this a microsoft fail, sounds like common sense to me. But of course there are plenty of fuck wits out there so common sense seems to be in short supply.

agreed, this really just seems to be user error

Isn't this a rule for erm... all consoles? I mean I've never moved my Wii, 360 or PS3 because it just seemed like a bad idea to move it with a disk in it.

I feel like it's the same with a dvd player

 

[Silent Eagle]

I moved my console because i thought it had stopped spinning the disk already after turning it off,it hadnt stopped yet and now im out my newest game. Back to Modern Campfire 2!

 

[Viruzzo]

I feel the need to say that while stupidity is required to incur in this problem, it still IS a fault on Microsoft's part, since I guess it's avoidable without any exceptional measure. While it's not something that will happen to careful people, it still apparently is a big enough problem with the "stupid userbase" that they should have fixed it.

Speaking as an employee of Gamestop, that warranty covers the system eating the disc. Not sure how it's a stupid move to spend $1-3 to protect a $60 investment.

3$ on a 60$ game is a 5% additional cost for a mostly useless service. In my book, that's a quite large waste. Titular problem aside, I've never heard of anyone I know getting a dvd scratched, let alone a game that costs that much; taking decent care of your stuff is smarter that to get an insurance for it.

 

[Yopaz]

FAIL, MICROSOFT. FAIL.
I mean, they may have fixed the Red Ring of Death issue, but isn't this worse?
However, I suppose most people don't really move their 360s whilst it's playing a disk.

This isn't a new flaw, the same sticker was on the original 360. Because this was a problem they even offered a replacement disc for all games published by Microsoft for 20 usd.

 

[Aesthetical Quietus]

FAIL, MICROSOFT. FAIL.
I mean, they may have fixed the Red Ring of Death issue, but isn't this worse?
However, I suppose most people don't really move their 360s whilst it's playing a disk.

Not at all, if your idiotic enough to move your console whilst it's spinning a disk, then you don't deserve that disk. It's common sense, would you flip your computer while it's playing a DVD, your DVD player, your PS3, your Wii?
If you answered yes to any of those then you don't deserve the disk's you own.

 

[Alfador_VII]

Really must say this is NOT a Microsoft design problem. Moving around, and changing the orientation of a fast-spinning DVD player (which is basically what a 360 is) has never been a great idea.

I never like to move any console when it's powered up at all.

 

[Neopopulas]

What the hell is wrong with people. You don't move electronics while they are on. If it has a hard drive, a DC/DVD drive, anything. If its running, if its spinning you DON'T MOVE IT because this will happen. That's basic knowledge, you can't expect a new version of anything to allow you to do that. He wasn't even moving it around, he was turning it on its side of COURSE the disk slipped, i can only think "duh, no shit"

Sigh..

 

[Azaraxzealot]

it's called "common sense" people, just don't dick around with a moving disc inside of a working console. Just because the PS3 can handle it doesn't mean every other console HAS to be "dumbass-proof"

 

[Deleted]

This is a problem because I like to kick around my xbox while the disc is inside. Microsoft should put into account people like me and made it so the discs would not get scratched. This isn't my fault I will keep kicking my xbox while its on and blame Microsoft.

 

[Necromancer1991]

Common Sense states that picking up any sort of disk drive while reading will result in damage to the disc, the exception being CD player because the disc is actually held in place by the disc drive, most PCs and Consoles have Free-floating disks meaning they're only held in place by the motor turning the disc