Damien Crowley
Member
Slot goes like "nom nom gimme ya disk!"... ifyaknowattimean
also not counting 3DO and CDI due to varying so much between manufactures and YMMV whether they really were game consoles. I
Top loader is best for overall reliability, but slot is best for convenience.
I admit i dropped the ball with the 3DO (remembered there being more than just four and that 3DO marketed it more like an entertainment center than a console and didn't feel like researching). But what's a side loader? The only disc based console i can think about that isn't a tray, top or slot is the after mentioned PSP and i think the poster below was right in referring it to as an "cassette tray loader".What do you think the 3DO was, a sandwich? 3DO has 4 models 3 of them are trays iirc and only 1 top loader. Problem solved. Also yes it's a game console all you do on it is play games, the CDI on the other hand is not. The two aren't even close to being comparable.
You are also missing the side loaders. But I guess those aren't very common so it's ok to omit that.
Having had an OG PS2, I was flabbergasted when I saw a Slim in real life. I’d never seen plastics so cheap and ugly on a console, ever.I don't understand how one person can be so wrong about any topic. PS2 Slim is best designed console ever (rivaled only by OneX).
Slot is best. Tray and Top both come with additional mechanical parts and mechanism which can break due to human error.
Although they do a good job of hiding it from the user, a slot loading drive has the greatest mechanical complexity of them all. They need exactly the same clamping cone system as a tray drive, and the mechanism that moves the disc is analogous to the one that drives the tray, but they also need systems to center the disk and more complex sensors because they have to handle determine the position of the media - and media has much wider dimensional tolerances than the tray in a tray drive.
The fact they are now highly reliable is only because so much time and effort has been put into making them so - maybe I'm biased because I can remember the early slot-loading drives and just how unreliable they were.
That had nothing to do with the disc loading mechanism. Rather it was the laser assembly that had a tendency to warp (due to poor construction and excess heat) and make the laser off-center, the "upside down" trick making use of gravity to re-center itAnd how are so many people saying top loading was most reliable? Absolutely everybody I know that had a PS1 had to either turn the system on it’s side or (most) had to turn the entire system upside down for it to read discs after about a year.
Slot is best. Tray and Top both come with additional mechanical parts and mechanism which can break due to human error.
Wouldn't the top loaders have the least amount of moving parts outside the basic disk mechanism? The tray and the slot both have the additonal movement associated with moving the tray/disk.
Side-loaders you push the cart or CD, usually horizontally, into the console or computer from the side. Not many used that method because it's kind of dumb haha.I admit i dropped the ball with the 3DO (remembered there being more than just four and that 3DO marketed it more like an entertainment center than a console and didn't feel like researching). But what's a side loader? The only disc based console i can think about that isn't a tray, top or slot is the after mentioned PSP and i think the poster below was right in referring it to as an "cassette tray loader".
Completely forgot about the Panasonic Q. Throws of my calculations a bit.Totally dependent on the media, for pre bluray stuff top loader everytime as i have gotten sick of stuff getting scratched. I still remember the panasonic Q fucking up gamecube disks thanks to it having one of those stupid indentations in a full sized tray so when you opened up the tray the disk would jump out of the recessed part & slide about. For any disk that actually has a bulletproof scratch resistant coating like ps3&4 games then slot loading is fine.
Top with slide, PS3 style
I am surprised the slot got so many votes. Is that just because the new consoles both have slots?
No your not. You can remove disks manually from PS4 and PS5 with a screwdriver. Xbox also has a mechanism to manually inject the disks if they drive fails.Slot you're basically out of luck.