360 Disc Scratching: What’s the Big Deal

Around the launch of Xbox 360, reports came in of unlucky gamers discovering scratches on their game discs. Thing is, outside of the odd technical failing, they weren’t that mysterious; moving an Xbox 360 while it’s accessing a disc results in a bunch of scary sounding noises emitting from the machine before it spits out a severely scratched and possibly unplayable game disc. Microsoft never said much about the issue, instead asking gamers experiencing hardware issues to send in their machines for a check up.