Moving the New 360 Can Damage Disks
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Sorry, this logic doesn't hold. No, one should not move their console while it's playing. But dismissing the issue is something like a car company responding to a faulty airbag issue by saying "well, you shouldn't drive into things!"Hafnium said:
The technology to at least ameliorate the effects of accidental motion is out there. It just cuts into profits.
Do you even read or understand what I write? I didn't say anything about it being 35° regularly...I consider it fairly warm...a bit too much for my taste, but it does happen in summer...40° was the safety margin...since you cannot ensure it to always be below 35°...sure, the same goes for 40°, but that is by far more unlikely...Hopeless Bastard said:
Also I have mentioned the Conservation of Angular momentum at least twice in this thread and I calculated the Momentum for a CD (or rather something similar with the entire mass concentrated in the rim...but the Momentum of a CD is lower...and I didn't want to integrate...) to be 225 µJs....that is 0.000225 Js...doesn't get much lower in everyday physics...turning that would not be any effort at all...as the Wikipedia Article cited...some 25 cent per console...
this is the same with any electronic that doesn't have a snap in cd/dvd/blue ray drive. No different then anything else.
People get real and stop bashing a product that isn't intended to be moved during use.
People get real and stop bashing a product that isn't intended to be moved during use.
unless the disk is clipped in of course moving the console will damage it. I mean did anyone try moving their regular 360 while the disk was moving? I guess not since people are saying this is a fail. My 360 when I first got it i had it on the floor in front of my tv while playing GRAW and my dog knocked it over when it was standing up and i had to get a new one. My dad had it sitting on a chair while playing Guitar Hero 2 and it fell off and had to get a new one.tghm1801 said:
Like seriously if this is the only complaint about the Slim then its not a complaint at all.
This surprises me. It's surprising because the last xbox 360 I used killed my disks while it was just sitting there. No movement, nothing. Has the issue been resolved somewhat with the new versions, then? I think Microsoft just sucks at making those trays. There's nothing holding it in like Sony puts on the Playstation2 and Discman and whatever, so I always thought it was a bad idea to set it sideways at all to begin with ...
I agree with this completely. I would've thought the whole "fragile moving parts" thing would make people think twice. Why would you urgently need to shift your Xbox without just taking 30seconds to turn it off first? Are you playing in the back of the coach in "The Italian Job"?NickCooley said:
Slow news day, escapist?
The only way I could see this as being Microsoft's fault would be if they were to telling us, "Well, if you don't want the discs scratched, don't put them in the console!" This is common sense, especially since it's a console that is designed to rest both vertically and horizontally and isn't, you know, a cube.
You mean I can't shake my 360 from side to side so that my games can have faster load times? So that's why all my games are useless! /sarcasmJohn Funk said:
I just can't put myself into the mindset of someone who thinks moving their 360 while a game is inside is a good idea. I just fail to see how that could even come close to being a remotely good idea. All those people who think it is deserve those scratched discs.
I definitely see your point on the level of outrage. I think people are just used to the lottery that was the red ring, so any flaw is treated with equal weight.Hafnium said:
Me, I was spoiled by the old Sega. You could take that, toss it into the wall after a 9-8 OT loss to your smuggest friend, blow on the cartridge a couple of times, and be ready for the next match.
I usually stand my PS3 up on its side to save space. It's actually probably really bad, because it has toppled over more than once while playing a game. But it's ok, I stand it right back up again and it just goes on playing.Ren3004 said:
I don't know why the people at Microsoft have so much trouble fixing it. Why does it cut into the CD? Does the 360 have small knife-points sitting millimetres away from the disc while it's spinning?
But accidents do happen, no matter how hard you prepare for them, and not everyone has the luxury of free space for their consoles. I put my PS3 and Wii on a shelf underneath my TV and my PS2 on the shelf underneath that, so it's pretty exposed, but their damn durable. Any electronic should be resilient to wear and tear. It happens.scotth266 said:
Yeah, I know, I'm not arguing there, I completely agree with you on that behalf. I'm just saying if the circumstance was different then it's more on the fault of Microsoft than the consumer.
Sometimes it's a slip of the mind and people don't think for two seconds, like I said, shit, or variations thereof, happens. It's just not a good if any movement of the console causes it to spazz and mistake the disc for a pizza needing to be cut.