THEY_CALL_ME_FACE OP t1_jbqk2jt wrote on March 10, 2023 at 11:03 PM

Reply to comment by No_need_for_that99 in Why are video game consoles photographed standing up now? by THEY_CALL_ME_FACE

Wow. I never knew that a console standing up wears out a disk tray and causes it to stop reading disks. I will never stand up another console again and to be honest I will probably never purchase another console that uses CD's. I will just stick to digital consoles from now on to avoid disk problems period.

No_need_for_that99 t1_jc26ex2 wrote on March 13, 2023 at 2:34 PM

Well, the disc trays were created on machines intended to lie down... the standing up part was simply a niche feature.... But the trays were never reinforced to be used at that angle.

But most PS3, Wii, Wii U, Xbox one and later are fine because they have no disc trays.

Makes sense when you think about, the plastics trays are flimsy in most cases. Not like Computer based Disc trays which are solid plastic and made for any orientation