No_need_for_that99 t1_jbqj77h wrote on March 10, 2023 at 10:57 PM

I have ps2 and 3.
mind you they are lying down now, since I have more room, but other then that I have always had them standing. plus it looked cooler.

But it wears on the disc trays.

If you don't have a disc tray, then it's fine.
That's why many xbox 360's would stop reading disc unless they were laying down.

Simple oversight I suppose

Vinconex t1_jbrjcxy wrote on March 11, 2023 at 3:44 AM

Back in the day consoles had two positions, upright and laying down it was touted as a "new standard" on the Americas but was a common thing in Japan.

In the Americas however they just used the same or even cheaper parts for the standup consoles so tue bottom (lol literally sometimes) fell out of the market and users felt that laying down was the better idea(bit nobody decided to reinforce the top to be able to hold a few pounds cuz we all pit stuff on top didn't we lol)

Tldr: Americas are too cheap to provide decent hardware

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

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