how many scratches can a game disc take?

how many scratches can a game disc take before it freezes,lags and is totally unplayable? i have a ps2 and xbox game that is full of them(some made on purpose) and works fine. What do use think?

sometimes you'd be surprised at how much a disk can take, wouldn't recomend it though, always take care of your games! they're expensive... lolkieran88

yeh... well discs shouldnt get many scratches on them anyways..l i mean natural reasons the console, the way u bought it ect r normal and that wont stop it from working.. But if u purposly scratch it of course it will or ur dog eats it(but how they should b in the cover:P) even scratches ur little sister or brother accedently do to it wont harm it only if u dig into it with a kife or something:P

sometimes you'd be surprised at how much a disk can take, wouldn't recomend it though, always take care of your games! they're expensive... lolkieran88

i havnt looked but does the xbox360 make scratchs on the disc sometimes? or all the time?

Six, that's all. In all seriousness, it depends on the severity of the scratch. If they're deep, a few or less. If they're minor, then a bunch of em. As long as it reads don't worry about it.Staryoshi87

just like Staryoshi87 said it reli depends how deep the scratch is, iv had games that had tons of scratches but arnt that deep and is playable. then ive hada game thats had one deep scratch and its unplayable. the thing to do is just look after the disc as well as u can.

My ex gf, used to not give a crap about my games and just take them out and leave them on the side then move them without picking them up and just pushing them. Safe to say they had some pretty tide scratches, yet I never had a problem with a scratched disc. j_honeysett

Yeah I had to yell at my wife just this morning cause she took my oblivion disc out and placed it face down which is a definite no no. It got a few scratches but I'm sure it'll be fine. She could care less about that sort of thing though.