The crazy hardcore guys at Neogaf have counted about a dozen in the wild so far out of the thousands of consoles out there so far. Seems we have a long way to go, but it's early!
Pre-order cancelled. And now uncancelled!
http://kotaku.com/good-news-about-ou...ps4-1464813671
Our malfunctioning PS4, the one I mentioned in our review of Sony's new console, has been fixed. It turns out that the fix was an easy one. We can now give you a clear run-through of what went wrong and what to look out for in what, at this point, seems like a fluke.
The good news here is that the problem was small and easily fixed. The slightly bad news is that we're unable to tell you why this happened. It's certainly possible that we accidentally knocked that piece of metal upward when we first plugged Sony's HDMI wire into the PS4. We can't rule out human error on our end. But we've been plugging wires into HDMI sockets for a long time, and we've never had this issue before. It's also possible there was something wrong with Sony's wire and that that's where the initial fault lies. Or perhaps the jack was indeed badly made. Sony doesn't know. We don't know.