Jesus what a shit pile of a thread:
- Have you ever had a component fry inside a computer? If it happened to you, you'd probably remember there was either no smoke or barely any smoke at all, just a very distinctive smell. If you look at the video and think it's real with THAT amount of smoke I don't know what to tell you. What physical part of the console do you think is generating that smoke?
- It's normal for MS to contact the guy and ask him to send his console back for review. Doesn't mean in any way they agree the video is real, it would make sense to investigate any claim of the sort especially around launch.
- After being called out, the guy didn't provide any additional evidence of anything. You'd think it would be very easy to take any picture from the outside after such a huge fire inside but nope, no photo of the console after the burn was provided. Just google "burnt PSU" and you will see that even from the back of the console you would see traces of such a huge burn, or deformation etc.
Still calling 100% bullshit on this specific case. Sorry if it's news but people lie for clout all the time.