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Capulous on 24 March 2009
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ssj12 said:
Badassbab said:
Matt247,

The newer consoles don't scratch the discs when there is slight movement cause they've rectified this problem that Microsoft won't admit to but the older 360's (like mine) scratched the hell out of the discs with just everyday movement like walking, putting a book down near it etc. I've never experienced this kind of problem before ever. Not with the original Xbox (which was very well made) or any disc based console. Glad PC's arn't so fragile.

 

This is only due to the fact they are using newer disc drives. They still selected the wrong disc drives to use period. Nintendo and Sony have proper drives making it so that discs cant be scratched even with massive movement.

What do you mean by massive movement?  Anyway, I actually have moved (physcially moved the console from one place on the shelf to another) my console with a disc spinning in the and it was not scratched.  My console is placed horizontially, but I do not know it that makes a difference.  Then again, I do not have a launch console so the problem may not be present anymore.

The thing about RROD is that it opened up MS to all sorts of attacks with problems that are not even that widespread.  E74 and the disk scratching may be blown out of proportion because of what happened with RROD.