Read this article: http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?optio ... 5&Itemid=1

Then tell me, is it really defective?

Every external DVD/CD drive I have ever used always scratches discs when you tilt or swivel them, rendering the discs totally useless. It's just something that happens... So, not only Microsoft should be sued, but most other manufacturers of external optical drives.

I'm pretty sure it's the same for any CD drive, really. I think laptop and portable CD player drives are designed to counteract it, but not completely. You really shouldn't be shaking your device around while in use. I mean, who does that?

its easy to accidentally knock over a 360 and then its bye bye disc.

its easy to accidentally knock over a PS3 and then its bye bye disc.

Solution - lay the 360 down before use (or put some books around it so it can't fall over).

Put it under the TV where it's supposed to be I guess.

i just dont knock it over ;P

Well then why complain that it's easy to knock over?

Lots of things are easy to knock over.

because it is easy to knock over, ive knocked it over many times! (never when turned on though or you would see a rage thread)

I'll keep an eye out for that

well its kind of hard to miss me raging from what ive been told

Don't PS3's and Wii's have that sort of 'sucky in thing' so that the disc doesn't get scratched....I knock over my PS3 and Wii ALOT especially the latter and all my games are fine

It can happen on sucky in drives too.

I think they're less susceptable by the way the work.

yup 360's do that ask my old GTA 4 disc. It got knocked over to a horrible sound o.0 then an evil ring had appeared on the disc which made it unplayable.

I've wrecked so many discs at work and I have never blamed the drive, only myself.

I have a solution... play on a PC

my 360 discs dont work on the pc, what kind of solution is that

THE solution.

There must be a 360 emulator by now?

Though you could just create backups with your PC.