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IGN's on their defective PS4 [Up: Sony - less than 0.4% of shipped units affected]
- Thread starter The Elite
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Next year? Pfft.. I'm waiting 8 years then I'll get the special slim version with a 1TB SSD and pay half what you paid.
Could have something to do with the wobble issue?
Slight variation in outside case = slight variation in mother board = heatsink and bowing issues?
Whatever it is it's not good.
R3TRODYCE
Member
Nice!
Alcoholikaust
Member
where are the reports of users NOT having any troubles with thier Taco Bell systems? Im sure they exist-and hearing/seeing impressions from them may take the worry out of some.
StoppedInTracks
Member
I have a feeling tomorrow will EXPLODE with bad news for Sony on Twitter, FB, Vine etc.
If selected journos are facing breaking PS4s and the sample is like literally REALLY FUCKING SMALL like 200 consoles then imagine what will happen when 20 000 people get one.
Brace yourself Sony fans... a storm is coming.
And do not call to ban IGN, please.
If selected journos are facing breaking PS4s and the sample is like literally REALLY FUCKING SMALL like 200 consoles then imagine what will happen when 20 000 people get one.
Brace yourself Sony fans... a storm is coming.
And do not call to ban IGN, please.
EekumBokum
Member
I'm really scared now. I hope this is not gonna be another RROD-like catastrophe.
I'm halfway through TLoU atm
Hi5 I haven't bought it yet, waiting to drop to £15 or PS4 port to be announced.
Rimon-hanit
Member
In the same boat seriously considering canceling my pre order in the short time I have left wish we had reports earlier on
So 10 consoles out of Taco Bell winners, not including systems given to game reviewers like IGN, may be broken on day 1?
I'm a launch buyer myself, EU launch though, just 2 more weeks damnit!
MikeE21286
Member
The funny things is is that this stuff is probably normal (or better than) most console launches, it just resonates louder because of the internet and console warz
Not everyone who got a problem reported it here or some sites. Notice that even big sites have their machine dying on them. You would think that sony would at least make sure they are giving them a 100 % working console. But even them looks like not sure what is the problem as we speak. I really hope its a software issue...well 6 shouldnt be an issue
I will have my system imported and wont cancel the order. But if i keep hearing reports about this i am going to sell it brand new here and save my self a near future heart attack.
StoppedInTracks
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PuppetMaster
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China Don't Care -Ryan Davis
It bricked again after he tried to reboot and he was unable to fix it a second time.
I would certainly hope not. Probably the biggest cockup in gaming history.
It depends how cheap you want to get I think the best balance is being a year or 2 late. I bought a PS3 2 years after launch, saved me so much money being behind games and now PSN+ starting to make me not buy games at all.
fvng
Member
How to fix apparent PS4 bricking
http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/1ql51v/how_to_fix_the_evident_ps4_brick_after_freeze/
http://www.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/1ql51v/how_to_fix_the_evident_ps4_brick_after_freeze/
Quite possibly.
My £400 graphics card was faulty right out of the box the first time around. This is a big reason why warranties exist.
Impeccable
Member
Got your fingers crossed?
You don't think this is hysteria?
I don't understand why we can extrapolate say even 50 consoles as representative of a large population but we shouldn't be assuming that everyone else is fine.
This is 100% the impact of the (literal) twitch generation with access to social media to let everyone know everything they're doing at every second. Nothing we have seen is at all out of the ordinary at all. It sucks that some people are getting defective units but I just don't understand the mass panic.
Hey man. Foxconn pulled out all the stops. They made engineering students at one of the local colleges come assemble PS4's. You've just gotta hope you get one of the "hand assembled by a future engineer" version of the console.
My phat is still going strong after all these years... anyways i think launch phat failure rate was about 9%-10% which is too high but then again launch 360 supposedly had a failure rate of 45% or so.
I hope this isn't going to be more than 3% failure rate... ''off the shelf parts'' right?
Risk Breaker
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Everyone panic!
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..well 6 shouldnt be an issue
6 or 7 the first day (not even counting those that might've gone unreported) isn't a non-issue unless it was a particular batch that got damaged on transportation or something.
Pop
Member
Why? Consoles will break and social media will make it sound a lot worse then it actually is. Over 4k consoles were giving out by Taco Bell, plus whoever else got theres.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Can't wait for all hell to break loose on the 15th and 22nd when the internet is flooded with error reports.
killer_clank
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Mass made electronics (especially one as complex as this) CANNOT have a 0% failure rate! It's just impossible with the manufacturing style that is used, there has to be some tolerance for failure.
I'm not that surprised that a new console (whichever brand) has issues.
The ps 1/2/3 all did at launch, as did xbox 1 and the 360.
This is why I don't purchase the launch consoles - I always wait 6-12 months and then purchase.
I sympathise with anyone who gets a console with this issue - I hope it's not widespread.
The ps 1/2/3 all did at launch, as did xbox 1 and the 360.
This is why I don't purchase the launch consoles - I always wait 6-12 months and then purchase.
I sympathise with anyone who gets a console with this issue - I hope it's not widespread.
I predict defects reports for X1 too...
most of these worked for a while though, the ticking time bomb thing is scary, bring home a new game that might break your system, or worry about an update doing the same.
-Source: Xbox 360 owner, with 1 broken and 1 working system at home, second is a slim.
goombatommy
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Out of an assumed what...~4000+ from the Taco Bell contest, the several hundred given away at the PS4 review event this week and probably other people just managing by blind luck to get their consoles. Not to mention media outlets (two of which that are known to have received faulty units; IGN and Kotaku) and journalists of the like.
StoppedInTracks
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And that is the problem. In the past stuff like this would explode way later, when the critical mass was reached in IGN Forums or here etc.
With Twitter, TwitchTV, FB etc. you are going to get many angry and INSTANT posts talking about the issue.
In other words: social media will overblow the issue (be it real or not).
While he could have worded it better I'll agree with the core of his message. Atm not too many PS4 games that interest me are out. I know the situation will be better in 2014. SHOULD this turn out to be a bigger problem (which I don't think) I wouldn't have the hassle to deal with returning the system. I don't expect a price drop by 2014, tho.
Waiting is just the better option for me.
I feel that any hardware defects this cycle for either system will probably be MUCH smaller in number than any previous generation, yet it will seem like the biggest and most wide spread issue just due to twitter, fb etc.
Like today in that guys Twitch stream and ign they were going in circles, IGN was refering to the guy in the stream as an example of people having problems, then the guy in the stream was like "IM NOT THE ONLY ONE, see IGN is reporting people having the same issues"
You people are crazy. I bet if Microsoft and Sony gave away 2000 360's and 2000 PS3's right now, we would get reports of a few of those consoles being faulty.
This shit is only news because of the media circus to report anything and everything about these consoles as they launch. It's not at all a high failure rate (so far)
This shit is only news because of the media circus to report anything and everything about these consoles as they launch. It's not at all a high failure rate (so far)
Seems to be a patchable software problem then, and not a problem with the HDMI hardware.
So the fact that such a small amount out in the wild already have issues is very troubling.
Imagine when there are 100s of thousands!