Vestal
Gold Member
hopefully it is isolated and fixed quickly.
Not the same as full-on HW failure, obviously.
the whole point of a console is to avoid shit like this.
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IGN's on their defective PS4 [Up: Sony - less than 0.4% of shipped units affected]
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the whole point of a console is to avoid shit like this.
mentallyinept
Banned
Got a chuckle out of me. Well done.
The future will be live streamed.
meanspartan
Member
Yes but Kotaku had 5 units, one failed. IGN had probably a lot more than 5, and one failed.
There are quite a few gaming websites, and all of them seem to be getting at least a few units. So far we know of only two failures.
Unlike the Taco Bell units where we aren't sure how many that fail actually get tweeted and blogged about, you can be damn sure we will know about every press unit that fails. So so far, only two out of presumably hundreds that have gone out to them.
mentallyinept
Banned
While I agree, at least the console has a real error reporting system in place to expedite any issues that are found with any of the games.
MrPressStart
Member
wife (who is pregnant) would not like that... lol
I've had dozens and dozens of game crashes on my PS3 and 360 in the past four years.
Game crashes aren't even relevant to this thread which is about the MUCH more serious and troubling issue of hardware failures.
Your 360 or PS3 never crashed while playing a game? I know mine have. I hope MS has a report issue service as well, it might speed up bug fixes.
PJV3
Member
Warhawk is still crashing on me every once a while.
Shout out to skyrim! Fallout 3! Bethesda Games!
Lol battlefield crashes on me almost everyday on my 360.
CadetMahoney
Member
maquiladora
Member
As long as it's not a wider issue and stays witin the range of expected failures, which is very low, then thats fine.
So any user that has a defective ps4, will not be taken seriously, unless they can provide proof through a youtube or twitch video?
MrPressStart
Member
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Not saying they won't be taken seriously, but there have already been people on Twitter and GAF trolling by saying "omgz, my console is also bricked!" and were quickly outed. We're in a weird situation. Not saying there's not issues, but not everyone who's going to step forward is going to be honest.
MrPressStart
Member
There are so many factors...
hdmi
update issue
delievery guy throwing it on the truck (the box if I recall) is not exactly built to protect. ***I wish I could do a gif of Ace Ventura when he was delievering the package at the beginning of Pet detective... ***
people complaing just to troll
actual hardware failure....
could be countless things, but tonight and tomorrow we all should get a much better idea of how big an issue this really is.
hdmi
update issue
delievery guy throwing it on the truck (the box if I recall) is not exactly built to protect. ***I wish I could do a gif of Ace Ventura when he was delievering the package at the beginning of Pet detective... ***
people complaing just to troll
actual hardware failure....
could be countless things, but tonight and tomorrow we all should get a much better idea of how big an issue this really is.
Q
Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
that x86 architecture is working wonders
why
narcosis219
Member
Way more entertaining than some kid throwing it on the ground or with a sledge hammer. DID YOU SEE DEM RIPPLES??
Zombie James
Banned
Sounds like it was Killzone crashing, not the hardware.
The Elite
BOSS
No more dead PS4s!!
He purchased it before the reviews came in.
This is going to be really, really funny 1 week from now.
Seriously though, almost all modern electronics are going to have some kind of fail rate. Not all of them are going to be as colossally bad as the XBOX 360 was, but there will be some systems that just straight up fail. Honestly I expect the Xbone and PS4 to be pretty comparable in this regard.
We will always have reports of consoles "working great." Where's your YouTube or Twitch video of your PS4 "working great"?
SporeCrawler
Member
if they can narrow it down to .04 how come they couldnt achieve control over that .04 before they shipped em?
Nope, you did the right thing. You aren't banned. As you said, if you learn from your mistakes everything will be fine.
MADGAME
Member
The lady at Starbucks this morning told me I smell like Vodka
Not that I am buying a XBOX ONE, but I hope they are not prone to failure. I am on my 6'th XBOX 360. Three Launch white consoles, and now I'm on my Third S console. S consoles may not have Red Ring of Death but their DVD-ROMs are Garbage.
I am going to wait at least 1 year before buying either PS4 or XBOX ONE
The Fact that the PS4 and XBOX ONE don't play Previous console discs if Microsoft or Sony Stop Repairing PS3 or Xbox360s all our software will be useless. I am concerned about having 360 games and nothing to play them on.
I am going to wait at least 1 year before buying either PS4 or XBOX ONE
The Fact that the PS4 and XBOX ONE don't play Previous console discs if Microsoft or Sony Stop Repairing PS3 or Xbox360s all our software will be useless. I am concerned about having 360 games and nothing to play them on.
If she's Russian it might be a compliment.
KillerIsJed
Member
I'm one of those Taco Bell winners and let me alleviate some fear here (or try to).
My PS4 was constantly running from 9:30am till 4:30am the next day. I was streaming, downloading, accepting friend requests, and browsing the store. I downloaded updates to Killzone, and Knack. I downloaded Warframe, Blacklight, Super Motherload, Resogun, and Contrast.
The console never felt very hot to the touch, and had an average amount of heat coming out of the vents.
That being said there was a few issues, mainly with the XMB? Dashboard? (Whatever they are calling this thing this time). It seems like if you do things too quickly in it, it gets overloaded, that or the network just wasn't doing well (I hope that isn't the case...). Rapidly accepting multiple friend requests would cause it to hang.
At times the store wouldn't load. Twitch streams would often just not show comments at all, sometimes until the stream was restarted, other times till the console was restarted.
At one point the console just kind of hung at the PSN Store with the blue lines background still in motion and music playing. Pressing the PS button had no effect. Ended up having to power off the console with the power button on the console.
The "benefits" of being an early adopter.
My PS4 was constantly running from 9:30am till 4:30am the next day. I was streaming, downloading, accepting friend requests, and browsing the store. I downloaded updates to Killzone, and Knack. I downloaded Warframe, Blacklight, Super Motherload, Resogun, and Contrast.
The console never felt very hot to the touch, and had an average amount of heat coming out of the vents.
That being said there was a few issues, mainly with the XMB? Dashboard? (Whatever they are calling this thing this time). It seems like if you do things too quickly in it, it gets overloaded, that or the network just wasn't doing well (I hope that isn't the case...). Rapidly accepting multiple friend requests would cause it to hang.
At times the store wouldn't load. Twitch streams would often just not show comments at all, sometimes until the stream was restarted, other times till the console was restarted.
At one point the console just kind of hung at the PSN Store with the blue lines background still in motion and music playing. Pressing the PS button had no effect. Ended up having to power off the console with the power button on the console.
The "benefits" of being an early adopter.
I've had cashiers hit on me saying I smell nice, but never my games. Don't take me wrong though, it's cute, but in a really weird way.
Bam Bam Baklava
Member
Can someone please fucking explain to me how RROD and Microsoft has anything to do with Sony and the PS4. Go ahead because I can't seem to understand.
Or they're adding demo units, devs units and press units to the count. I wonder how many that would be? 10000? 15000? Even more?
MrPressStart
Member
lol, All I could think about when she said it was "I never knew my games had a scent", come to think of it.. .I have never even thought to smell my games. Gamestop must really wear on you after a while.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
The straws. They need grasping.
I can definitely see this becoming an issue, but for people to imply this will be anywhere near the magnitude of RROD are smoking something strong. There has never in the history of gaming been anything nearly as disastrous for the platform holder, in terms of hardware problems.
MrPressStart
Member
Hey if it means something good... tag away.
It's hard to know the magnitude one way or the other when the thing isn't even available for sale yet. So I think no one in this thread is innocent of grasping at straws.
It's a serious issue that we won't know the magnitude of until it hits retail.
Time to roll the dice on launch hardware yet again, folks!
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