360 games unplayable after being in 360!

riddler · 19 Apr 2007 at 23:13

i think the laser in my 360 has destroyed my PES6 =[ the scratches on the disk are really bad and to deep to be the usual little scratches GOW has the same problem!

anything that can fix this and am i right in thinking its the 360 laser?

thedoc46 · 20 Apr 2007 at 02:00

did you move your 360 whilst the game was in the drive spinning?

Cos that a definate no no....

actually 'shock horror' microsoft have even admitted there is a design flaw in which games and the console can get damaged from moving it whilst its on.

BloodWolf · 20 Apr 2007 at 02:47

must be a complete div to move it whilst turn on anyway imo.

Needles · 20 Apr 2007 at 03:02

who said he moved it whilst it was on, not the only way for 360's to knacker your games as I have found out to my own cost

shiner · 20 Apr 2007 at 10:03

Yeah I had Battlestations Midway badly damaged without me moving the console, I went to a local disc repairer and they managed to skim the scratches out for £4 and it worked ok I then traded the game in

There's afew threads in this section about this happening.

JBeck · 20 Apr 2007 at 11:17

thedoc46 said:
did you move your 360 whilst the game was in the drive spinning?

Cos that a definate no no....

actually 'shock horror' microsoft have even admitted there is a design flaw in which games and the console can get damaged from moving it whilst its on.

And this is the usual answer people get for this sort of thing. No he hasn't moved it, I never moved mine to get the same problems, thousands of others haven't either. MS have actually just admitted that the 360 scratches discs when it's NOT been moved...

thedoc46 · 21 Apr 2007 at 06:08

i think the 360 will go down in history as the most unreliable console ever produced.. 10fold !

what a joke...

Margaret · 21 Apr 2007 at 07:33

thedoc46 said:
i think the 360 will go down in history as the most unreliable console ever produced

I couldn't really care less, it has the best games available, fantastic online service and plenty of great games coming out.

Besides, the latest 360's being sold have had far less returns/faults reported, that coming from 3 different employees of different GAME stores across the UK.

Joebob · 21 Apr 2007 at 08:06

Jihad said:
I couldn't really care less, it has the best games available, fantastic online service and plenty of great games coming out.

Good job not all consumers are as laid back as you are when it comes to build quality of products. I do think the 360 is a good console with some great games, but reliability issues like the 360 has had should not be tolerated in any consumer product IMO.

Just curious, but if you had a car with some failry major known manufacturing faults would you say "I couldn't care less as it's comfortable and I get good mpg"?

Margaret · 21 Apr 2007 at 08:17

Joebob said:
Just curious, but if you had a car with some failry major known manufacturing faults would you say "I couldn't care less as it's comfortable and I get good mpg"?

Don't compare a car with a console, cheers.

Lolcb · 21 Apr 2007 at 09:16

Jihad said:
Don't compare a car with a console, cheers.

That is what MS have to do eh?

Substituting their failure with the core structure of the console by providing good service online as you have said and games.

But where is this service and games you spoke of when the console itself doesn't even work?

Margaret · 21 Apr 2007 at 09:21

Lolcb said:
But where is this service and games you spoke of when the console itself doesn't even work?

Warranty?

Lolcb · 21 Apr 2007 at 09:28

Jihad said:
Warranty?

I have seen people saying they are on their 3rd or even 4th 360.

Changing 2-3 times in a year is a hassle. And it shouldn't even happen. And not to mention there was a thread not too long ago saying that 360 failed after the warranty period when it is meant to last a lot longer than that.

Warranty is not forever, it only covers you for a year. After a year, you probably have to go through a lot of hassle such as contacting the trading standards etc.

neocon · 21 Apr 2007 at 09:40

Lolcb said:
I have seen people saying they are on their 3rd or even 4th 360.

Changing 2-3 times in a year is a hassle. And it shouldn't even happen. And not to mention there was a thread not too long ago saying that 360 failed after the warranty period when it is meant to last a lot longer than that.

Warranty is not forever, it only covers you for a year. After a year, you probably have to go through a lot of hassle such as contacting the trading standards etc.

or you could try the heat-gun method

LoadsaMoney · 21 Apr 2007 at 18:55

Lolcb said:
I have seen people saying they are on their 3rd or even 4th 360.

Yes and as the 360 brigade will tell you, its their fault they are breaking, they shouldn't keep them on top of radiators, in airing cupboards etc... or boot them aroud the room when they are using them

Im not suprised they overheating or discs getting scratched from getting wellied around the room when they spinning.

Darkaber · 21 Apr 2007 at 19:16

LoadsaMoney said:
Yes and as the 360 brigade will tell you, its their fault they are breaking, they shouldn't keep them on top of radiators, in airing cupboards etc... or boot them aroud the room when they are using them

Im not suprised they overheating or discs getting scratched from getting wellied around the room when they spinning.

lol

suarve · 21 Apr 2007 at 21:43

JBeck said:
And this is the usual answer people get for this sort of thing. No he hasn't moved it, I never moved mine to get the same problems, thousands of others haven't either. MS have actually just admitted that the 360 scratches discs when it's NOT been moved...

I think your making a bit of an over generalization there as this type of thing seems quite isolated. I have 51 different games played in my 360 and have never had this happen personally.

suarve · 21 Apr 2007 at 21:44

Lolcb said:
I have seen people saying they are on their 3rd or even 4th 360.

Changing 2-3 times in a year is a hassle. And it shouldn't even happen. And not to mention there was a thread not too long ago saying that 360 failed after the warranty period when it is meant to last a lot longer than that.

Over generalising, doh! what some people must do to their 360's to be on their 3rd and 4th is beyond me. I think McD is even on his first 360 and he has a million gamerpoints and loads of games played

JBeck · 21 Apr 2007 at 23:45

Im on my fourth, why? Because MS send out refurb units instead of fixing your own or giving you a new one. Now, it doesn't take a genius to work out that if a console breaks once (original owner), it's more than likely going to break again (fixed and given to someone else) So McD is on his first console, whoopie for him, he hasn't had any duff refurbs to fail then has he?

As far as scratching discs goes, you think because that YOU haven't had a problem it's an isolated incident. 360's have been scratching discs from day one, especially ones with Samsung/Toshiba drives and even more so now when playing games like GOW which constantly stream textures. Try searching these forums, xbox forums, AVforums (as many hardware forums as you can think of) blogs, google etc... and you'll see that isolated is not in the 360's dictionary.

Amen.

suarve · 22 Apr 2007 at 00:18

JBeck said:
Im on my fourth, why? Because MS send out refurb units instead of fixing your own or giving you a new one. Now, it doesn't take a genius to work out that if a console breaks once (original owner), it's more than likely going to break again (fixed and given to someone else) So McD is on his first console, whoopie for him, he hasn't had any duff refurbs to fail then has he?

As far as scratching discs goes, you think because that YOU haven't had a problem it's an isolated incident. 360's have been scratching discs from day one, especially ones with Samsung/Toshiba drives and even more so now when playing games like GOW which constantly stream textures. Try searching these forums, xbox forums, AVforums (as many hardware forums as you can think of) blogs, google etc... and you'll see that isolated is not in the 360's dictionary.

Amen.

I'm sorry, if disc scratching wasn't isolated then people wouldn't bother buying the system at all. Your making out like its a fact that most 360 scratch discs - when they don't. It would be huge news if MS had released loads and loads of consoles that scrathed discs. Your in the minority, as MS continue to sell games and consoles.

And the refurns thing, I haven't heard of that. Why not just take it back to the original store and get a replacement. This is what i did and had a brand new console within a few mins (the fact the console failed was my fault, but thats another story

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