20% failure rate confirmedsmh
That's pretty weird. I hope he's tried different cables and TVs though.Has this video been posted yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCRxSh5zFcw
N.B. the standard consumer electronics failure rate is 5%.
I'm going to chalk this up to launching in the age of social media for now. Although, it's always good to be wary as well.
Only 8 of 4000? Sure, i'm wondering how many cases are not being reported by the users.
Of course you're right, my bad. I'm kind of embarrassed that the WiiU isn't even on my radarThis isn't the first console launch in the age of Twitter. I know the Wii U isn't on fire but it did launch 'in the age of Twitter'.
Ya can't save them all Shem, lol.
I can tell you one thing, WHEN (not if, WHEN) XB1 units start failing too, as is the case with ALL consumer electronics because some failures are expected and nearly unavoidable with all that silicon, they're going to get crucified in the context of all their PR stumbles up till now.
Sony's just lucky they had a lot of positive vibes before all this 'under-the-microscope' launch madness.
They'll both have failures, and the world will still turn. And ya know what? Even if either approaches RRoD levels of destruction, my extended warranties will keep me warm at night lol.
On a side note, talking about failures with all that silicon for some reason made me think of botched breast implants....
N.B. the standard consumer electronics failure rate is 5%.
I'm going to chalk this up to launching in the age of social media for now. Although, it's always good to be wary as well I suppose.
And this is why I never buy consoles at launch
8 out of 4,000 is pretty good, percentage wise.
Maybe it will be 100% in a year and it's part of an insidious scheme of planned one-year obsolescence.a product has a warranty of 1 year in the uk. these (few) machines have gone faulty in a couple of days. the working ones could go faulty in a month or two.
by the end of the warranty period it could easily pass 20% if there is a manufacturing problem involved.
whos to blame? foxconn workers, foxconn managers, foxconn quality controllers or sony quality controllers?
all of the above
Maybe it will be 100% in a year and it's part of an insidious scheme of planned one-year obsolescence.
reported
there are a lot of those 4000 that did not report saying their console was fine
It's not safe to assume that. There are also likely more than 4,000 PS4s out in the wild when you factor in the press and whatnot. Even if you double the amount of incidents, 0.2-0.4% failure rate is pretty good for a mass produced piece of hardware. Compare that to the 360 or PS3, and I think it's more than reasonable.
Let's assume 100 of those were defective.reported
there are a lot of those 4000 that did not report saying their console was fine
20% failure rate confirmedsmh
Also all the demo units in places like gamestop and bestbuy that are on all day getting used
The defective number can increase 15x and still be lower than the average of 3.5%.reported
there are a lot of those 4000 that did not report saying their console was fine
It's not safe to assume that. There are also likely more than 4,000 PS4s out in the wild when you factor in the press and whatnot. Even if you double the amount of incidents, 0.2-0.4% failure rate is pretty good for a mass produced piece of hardware. Compare that to the 360 or PS3, and I think it's more than reasonable.
It's not safe to assume that. There are also likely more than 4,000 PS4s out in the wild when you factor in the press and whatnot. Even if you double the amount of incidents, 0.2-0.4% failure rate is pretty good for a mass produced piece of hardware. Compare that to the 360 or PS3, and I think it's more than reasonable. For reference, MS said the 360 did 3-5%, officially.
its biased towards information available
It's far too early to be extremely worried or extremely confident. Fingers crossed, basically.
whos to blame? foxconn workers, foxconn managers, foxconn quality controllers or sony quality controllers?
all of the above
Microsoft said the DOA (not red ring failures necessarily) rate for 360s was 3-5%. So... progress.
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Kind of neat that PS4 has crash reporting. Kind of weak that I've filed two Killzone crash reports this evening.
Loose connector." Oddly enough, we tried adding light pressure to the top of console and it briefly flickered a few active home menu images on the television."
What kind of problem could cause that?
Loose connector.
Err... A certain number of 360s would have been defective out of the box.even the xbox360 did not break within a couple of days.
Well the one "good" side is that these problems don't seem to be caused by one major issue. It seems like of these reports they are being caused by different issues. Firmware, HDMI, GPU. So while it's not good that this is happening, I guess it's better than if all the units had faulty GPUs or HDMI ports. So it doesn't seem like there was one major issue that sony knew about and shipped the console anyway.
Loose connector.