The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

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When my brother was 5 he was obsessed with Godzilla and rather than waiting for my parents would put the VHS tapes in himself. What resulted was a whole bunch of broken VCRs. My dad got really pissed because he thought he was being conned or something by these companies until one day he witnessed my brother inserting a Godzilla VHS. He tried to fit it in every direction possible using as much force as a 5-year old frothing at the mouth for Godzilla could muster. My brother was breaking the VCRs by literally jamming movies into them.

Not saying that's what is happening here.. but weirder things have happened.

Just to add some background on my special brother, later that week he tried to "start the house" like a car by putting a key into a wall socket because it was too cold. Promptly got the shit shocked out of him.
 
Szlia

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Tuco_sl said:
What is your theory on what Ramar is doing wrong?
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Constantly ejecting could be a mechanical problem caused by discs being force-fed to the console instead of gently swallowed. Could also be the disks are dirty because they are handled with dirty hands. Could be the drive has been killed because Ramar put stickers on his disks. Who knows.


EDIT: It could also be that the 4 occurrences of the same problem have 4 different causes. 1st PS2: force feeding, 2nd PS2: dirty discs, Xbox: stickers, PS4: Noodleface's brother trying to put his old Godzilla VHS in your brand new VCR (more likely with an Xbox One though, so bad luck *is* involved).
 
Ramar

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There's been no Godzilla'ing of consoles; I take very good care of my electronics. Fat PS2s were notorious for disk read errors. You could actually open them up and calibrate the laser by moving a small white gear in the assembly... it would only work temporarily though. I have no idea on the original Xbox. I was moving around quite a bit at the time, so I'll take the hit on that one. This PS4 issue is fairly common, which is unacceptable. I really enjoy having the physical media (being able to trade/sell/gift whatever when I'm done with it has a lot of appeal), but I'm so fucking sick of dealing with faulty optical drives... my luck is terrible.
 
Vaclav

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How do you keep your discs? My first two (of three) 360 drive failures were attributed to cat hair getting into the unit from my damn cats using the 360 as a perch before I got an enclosure for it. (Old ent center was open air)

Regardless unless you've been Godzilla'ing its warrantied.
 
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Vaclav_sl said:
How do you keep your discs? My first two (of three) 360 drive failures were attributed to cat hair getting into the unit from my damn cats using the 360 as a perch before I got an enclosure for it. (Old ent center was open air)

Regardless unless you've been Godzilla'ing its warrantied.
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No pets and I keep my disks in the case when I'm not using them (no dirt or stickers either). I'm not worried about it since it's still under warranty, just venting a bit.
 
ronne

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Can confirm optical drives are shitty. I had 3 fail in my ps2s over the years, and one in my Xbox (but it also redringed a few times, so who cares).
 
Soygen

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Good riddance, I say. I've been almost completely digital with PS3 and Steam. Having to swap disks for Killzone, AC4 and NFS on my PS4 is pretty annoying.
 
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Noodleface_sl said:
Optical Drives are on their way out anyways, we can see that coming miles away
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Optical Drives (or some physical form of distribution) will probably be here for at least another generation after this. There's a huge market for physical games at retail that isn't going to shrink to unprofitable anytime soon. It will likely shrink and gradually grow smaller (at least in the current majorly developed countries, can't say the same for the growing ones), but it's going to be a lot longer than people think before the market for them is small enough to stop producing physical games.

And I will be very sad when physical totally goes away.
 
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Soygen_sl said:
Good riddance, I say. I've been almost completely digital with PS3 and Steam. Having to swap disks for Killzone, AC4 and NFS on my PS4 is pretty annoying.
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You could have bought all of those via PSN you know! I think there's digital versions of every PS4 game right now.
 
Xexx

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Until ISPs remove data caps you wont see physical disk vanishing. Some of those huge games would fuckin destroy your wallet on some of the more greedy ISPs.
 
Soygen

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Sean_sl said:
You could have bought all of those via PSN you know! I think there's digital versions of every PS4 game right now.
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I know, but I was on the B2G1 free train pre-release. I'd rather get a free game and deal with swapping.
 
spronk

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They need to standardize and figure out a way to resell used digital goods, sort of like a trusted ebay or amazon or google for game (and movie, songs, etc) before physical goods get completely killed off. its kinda weird that in 2014 there still isn't a great way to buy a game on bluray, activate it for yourself, then sell your rights (digitally) to someone else and stop having it work for you, and let the chain continue on.

Obviously publishers hate the idea, but having 100,000 different versions of netflix (PS+, hulu, gamefly, etc) isn't practical either, and thats the only idea publishers have - making everything revolve around f2p, season passes, microtransactions, etc.

I will say I hate physical too but it was really nice trading into gamestop two of my 3 launch PS4 titles for the exact same price I bought em for, and using that money to fund my steam wallet for winter sale. can't do shit with my 200+ steam games, not even give em away. one lesson I have learned though, as soon as you finish a game sell it, games do not age well like wine or men
 
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spronk_sl said:
one lesson I have learned though, as soon as you finish a game sell it, games do not age well like wine or men
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Games with limited runs actually hold and increase in value. See: Xenoblade. If you look through Amazon & eBay there's actually a fair amount of modern games that had limited manufacturing.

Personally I think re-selling games is dumb, they're something worth keeping and have an intrinsic value to them. They're something you can just dig out of the closet and play later years down the road for kicks. I truly wish that I had been able to keep my NES, SNES, Genesis, etc. There's something special about them that digital versions will NEVER have and they shouldn't just be immediately sold off for some trade-in pittance.
 
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Orange box actually increased in value with time, I bought it for 10 dollars and traded it in "at gamestop" for 20 3 years later.
 
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