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slowmo on 11 December 2012
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CCFanboy said:
VGKing said:

Ok, I'll bite.

-YLOD was in no way comprable to the RROD. Not even close.


It isn't just rrod 360 had though. That was just the most well known problem because it caused the system to brick. There were all sorts of faults I noted in early shipments. Faulty hard drives, scratching discs, random screeching sounds coming from games like pdz, but the weirdest one I saw was when hitman was inserted and 'error' would come up saying 'please insert this disc into an xbox 360'. lol what does it think it is?

My brother had a saints row disc which was craked in the middle. No idea how that happened. It was while the disc was spinning inside. But it isn't only because rrod was far more widespread. The first year had all sorts of problems. Some of you will probably think I am making some of these claims up but I'm not.


You're not making that up to be honest.  Some faults/flaws :

RROD (obviously)

Toshiba drives developed drawer faults (will not open when 360 is horizontal)

Hitachi drives had laser issues and spindle would lose its retaining metal ring causing discs to wobble in rotation causing read faults, disc scratching.

All drives had no protection to stop too much disc movement hence if a console was knocked during use it would cause the disc to foul the laser.  Microsoft answered this with a message saying do not move the console while in use.  A cynical person might suggest publishers liked this "feature".

 

The Hitman error was a disc read issue on your console, the console couldn't verify the copy protection, you also get the message Play DVD instead usually too eventually.  It would be a dirty or faulty laser.

For those saying YLOD is rare you're in denial, more than 50% of the original fat PS3's will fail.  The 40GB model significantly improved this thanks to the die shrink meant less heat produce.