My Amazon order won't even ship until at least Friday so it'll be next week before I get my PS4. I'm not even sure I'll keep it since the game selection is so weak, and I'm happy just to play GTA V (and PC games) for the foreseeable future.
The typical failure rate most electronics want to see is less than 5% but it depends on the product and how the consumer responds.
360 had issues early to be sure but for the PS3 and 360 slim versions the 360 had a very slightly lower failure rate (by memory). PS3 I think overall ran at about a 10% failure rate.
Early problems might be an understatement since the console was release was in 2005. In the earlier years you saw a 100%+ failure rate where returned consoles were repaired more than once, even by 2009 X360 had failure rates of > 50%. Failure rates for X360 were close to 20% compared to 10% on PS3 as of November 2011. Wii was the most reliable console of the previous generation at 2.7%. X360 was one of the most historically unreliable boxes in history based on accrued population and it took several hardware redesigns before they were stable in 2012. That's 6/8 years of it's life cycle with > 20% failure rates. http://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbo.../1100-6216691/ http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox-failu...es-to-a-close/
Yikes. Even Forbes had issues with their PS4. Looks like it's tied to the HDMI port. Considering not many PS4's have been released there's looking like a lot of bad consoles. Someone must have been asleep at the wheel in one of the factories making these things.
On the bright side this sounds like something that should be easily corrected as this isn't the same as the RROD where Microsoft had ongoing cooling issues with the 360. Still though kind of a little embarrassing for Sony. I just hope that it's not as widespread as it is with the media consoles.
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!
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.
For those going at midnight, what time are you going to get in line? What time do you think you need to get there to be one of the 100 or so? I was thinking of going at 9:30 after store close.
For those going at midnight, what time are you going to get in line? What time do you think you need to get there to be one of the 100 or so? I was thinking of going at 9:30 after store close.
Heh, you guys are hardcore. Let us know what the lines are like - console launches don't come that often, and we have two in a week! Fun times!
IGN finally able/allowed to give their First Impressions, now that they are home and set up the console in a "real" setting" - missing the Day One patch though I guess.
UI/system appear to be very fast and fluid. Remote play seems like the legit bomb.
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Thank you for everything CP. Good memories and thankful for everything that has been done to help me out. I will no longer take part on these boards. Take care, Go Flames Go.
Why wait until E3 for a press conference full of gaming news? Sony's promising big announcements for tonight's big PS4 All Access show, and we've got it streaming for you live, right here.P
Sony's promising news on Metal Gear Solid V, Destiny, and The Last of Us DLC, plus whatever big surprises they've got up their sleeves. The show starts at 11pm Eastern (9pm Calgary)
