Does PS3 scratch disks like PS2?


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I'm thinking about buying myself a ps3 for christmas, but I'm a little hesitant to spend so much money on something that is too much like the ps2. My ps2, 7 years old now, puts nice, clear indentions into every disk I put in. It is completely useless now (and so are all of my games). Has anyone had problems with ps3 scratching disks?

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  Janitor said:
Are you getting confused between the XBOX360 and the PS3? I've never heard of a PS3 doing it

I've never heard of a ps3 scratching discs either, I just asked because my ps2 will not play any of my games anymore and wondered if that would happen with the ps3 as well. Sounds like most people haven't had any problems, so that makes me feel better about buying one.

I've got a 5 year old PS2 and it's never put a scratch on a disc.

However, I've had a disc or two left in the PS2 end up with burnt tracks because the disc was left in it, on pause, for too long- it seems that the ps2 laser was able to alter the disc substrate since it was left reading the same track over and over, but it has never scratched the disc.

  soniqstylz said:
^^^ is that because of scratched discs, or bad laser?

I've done some reading on it and it's probably a bad laser... Since I'm getting a PS3 soon, I might just try and open it up and see if I can fix it like this sketchy website I found says to do...

had 2 ps2's, fat and slim, neither ever scratched the games... maybe your ps2 is messed up... call sony to get replacements. havent heard of ps3's doing this...

don't open it up... then sony will never take it back. 7 years is a long time to wait and complain about this problem tho.

  whYeNQue said:
don't open it up... then sony will never take it back. 7 years is a long time to wait and complain about this problem tho.

It just started happening gradually over time... I don't think they'd take it back now, though. Whatever warranty it may have had has surely expired by now.

I can't believe that nobody has ever heard of the ps2 scratching disks... Didn't they even come out with something that was supposed to hold your ps2 sideways so that it somehow helped it not scratch? Oh well, I'm happy to know that at least my ps3 probably won't scratch it. I probably just messed up my ps2 transporting it somewhere.

my ps3 doesn't scratch my disks, i've had mine since march launch and all 3 of my game disks look brand new except for maybe a finger print from taking in and out but they come off with little micro fibre cloth easy.

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