Quote Originally Posted by Dreddz View Post
That 360 sure didn't waste any time wrecking that disc though. Seeing as accidents happen all the time I reckon Microsoft should have been more thoughtful designing the console.
To be fair Dreddz, the disc spins at something ridiculous, a couple of hundred rpm to begin with. Something spinning at that speed suddenly exposed to g-force and such will slip/tilt add in to that the fact that the laser lens needs to be so close to the disc to read it and you're going to have contact, contact with the laser will scratch the disc. The problem lies in the fact that lasers have to conform to speciffic industry standards and also that the lasers for reading discs have limited read distance. If the read distance was improved then the laser could be further away and we'd never see this kind of problem. The only currently available soloution would be to have a disc drive with a hard spindle where like in a case you'd have to release the disc through force/pressure points. That would provide a steady soloution to the problem but means we can't have slide trays, they'd need to be pop lids on consoles.

As for accidents happening all the time, I used to live with my mom, sister and her 2 kids (now 3 kids) now her eldest kid is 8 and knows better because he plays games too. However I've never had a kid even mess with my consoles when they're on or knock them over, what kind of lifestyle are you living/flat/room do you have where this is even a possibility? The 360 default control pads are wireless and the usb pads will simply disconnect before the console so much as even realizes the cable was tugged. There is no real risk of the console falling over from everyday normal use, you would have to deliberately pick it up or else otherwise be a very clumsy person by nature to cause a wireless console to fall over.