Disc rot: Difference between revisions

Consumers have reported that the discs that they purchased for their Wii U consoles are experiencing rot,<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 May 2020 |title=Are all Wii U physical discs doomed? |url=https://forums.atariage.com/topic/306522-are-all-wii-u-physical-discs-doomed/ |url-status=live |access-date=23 Mar 2025 |website=AtariAge |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251007083956/https://forums.atariage.com/topic/306522-are-all-wii-u-physical-discs-doomed/ |archive-date=7 Oct 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=@Camgames |date=26 Jan 2025 |title=The Wii U Has a Massive Problem |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlVrhF7DYbg |url-status=live |access-date=23 Mar 2025 |website=[[YouTube]] |archive-url=https://preservetube.com/watch?v=MlVrhF7DYbg |archive-date=16 Feb 2026}}</ref> and in some scenarios, degrading on a large scale in individual collections.<ref>{{Cite web |title=All these games in my collection are dead from disc rot |url=https://www.reddit.com/r/wiiu/comments/15t0i84/all_these_games_in_my_collection_are_dead_from/ |url-status=live |access-date=23 Mar 2025 |website=[[Reddit]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=14 Mar 2023 |title=Wii U discs have a high failure rate? |url=https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-discs-have-a-high-failure-rate.628470/ |url-status=live |access-date=23 Mar 2025 |website=GBATEMP |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250323030443/https://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-discs-have-a-high-failure-rate.628470/ |archive-date=23 Mar 2025}}</ref> Often, the degradation is described as pinholes scattered across the disc. [Example picture to be added]<!-- Read this post, and decide which pic is best to use as an example in this section!