How many Boardies will get a Faulty PS4

Snake Plisken

Right just sticking this poll up now as I'm sure we have some Boardies who might be in the US and have their PS4's, and a lot of us will hopefully have them by this time in two weeks. But as I'm sure you have read there has been a small number of PS4's have been Out Of Box Failures, and won't even display anything on screen, this has got me worried about the chance (I know its small) of getting a faulty console. So it will be interesting to see if any of us get a dodgy one.

Kiith

I'd be surprised if anyone does. There's been, what, 10 reported instances of failures out of a million consoles?

Pushtrak

Good choice making it a public poll. I don't have one yet, and I'll not be buying it till better games are out. Hopefully the issue proves to be very rare.

jonerkinsella

NOOOOOO! My PS4 doesn't work :(

*** IMPORTANT READ ***
http://lvlzero.com/2013/11/17/ps4-blod-analysis/

Klair88

All those reports are exaggerated IMO. On Sites like reddit, a lot of people say its not as bad as the Internet warriors are making it out to be. Also, bear in mind that some people will do ANYTHING to get bad press/image for the PS4.

Like this..

Hierro_4

Pushtrak wrote: »

Good choice making it a public poll.

+1

Poll will be skewed by Xbox fanboys voting no!

RedXIV

Kiith wrote: »

I'd be surprised if anyone does. There's been, what, 10 reported instances of failures out of a million consoles?

To be fair though, both IGN and Kotaku had issues with their consoles (I believe Kotaku's was already resolved) and two major game journalism sites to get dodgy consoles is either indicative of a more widespread problem or some of the worst luck for any manufacturer ever

.K.A.L.I.M.A.

To anyone who voted No in the poll, did you buy your's through a website like Amazon.com, etc...?

Snake Plisken

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.K.A.L.I.M.A. wrote: »

To anyone who voted No in the poll, did you buy your's through a website like Amazon.com, etc...?

They are Xbox fanboys unfortunately I don't think I can stop them

2Mad2BeMad

Hierro_4 wrote: »

+1

Poll will be skewed by Xbox fanboys voting no!

too be honest this thread was like asking fanboys of all nature to come in and post:pac: why post this thread on something that has not even came out yet in Ireland were the majority of this site is based

also the fact the like what 0.04 percent of the console that was released was only faulty which is very impressive, this thread is just a waste of space:pac: I see 0 results for yes and 9 results for no
so it appears even ps4 fanboys are saying no :pac: do you get the point? no one cares:pac: its more of a mock thread then anything else:rolleyes:

Royal Irish

Judging by the US Sony support forums, it seems like it might be a little higher than 0.4% of people having issues.

One guy even bought 2 PS4's and both had the blue light of death. What are the chances.

Royal Irish

double post

jonerkinsella

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Yep ...its looking more serious than first reported .

From another link I posted in another thread
" But I'm thinking of paying off the console in full now and just leaving it sit in the store for a week or two now as the reports of faulty units are starting to really mount up now . I know ppl from the US on another forum (Guru3D) that reckon as many as 60% of friends/family consoles are faulty. One guy reckons that out of 3 consoles on his street all where faulty .One of these guys is a 10yrs on the forum and is not just someone on spewing crap. A hell of a lot of the consoles that where purchased are put away for xmas ,so its hard to gauge a realistic fail rate yet.

"
The problems are much larger than Sony is admitting. Out of the 5 people I know who purchased a PS4, two are screwed up. One of them is doing the red-light shut down, and my brothers sounds like a hairdryer.

Right now on Amazon, the CONFIRMED buyers are reporting by the hundreds that their PS4's are not working properly. Which works out to be almost 40% of confirmed owners who wrote a review."

"
Talking to 3 of my neighbors this morning, 2 came DOA and the other is crashing when loading. I feel bad for those who have issues. Software issues, firmware issues are acceptable for early adoption, but dead unit's and other hardware issues. There are always going to be glitches in new hardware but this seems quite extensive just out of the gate. Sony dropped the ball on this one big time. "

From here ,
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=383544

Oat23

NOOOOOO! My PS4 doesn't work :(

I was excited about getting it in the morning but now I'm shi*ting it because of this forum .

Sending it back to the US would be a huge pain in the arse, so hopefully it all goes well.

Snake Plisken

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2Mad2BeMad wrote: »

too be honest this thread was like asking fanboys of all nature to come in and post:pac: why post this thread on something that has not even came out yet in Ireland were the majority of this site is based

also the fact the like what 0.04 percent of the console that was released was only faulty which is very impressive, this thread is just a waste of space:pac: I see 0 results for yes and 9 results for no
so it appears even ps4 fanboys are saying no :pac: do you get the point? no one cares:pac: its more of a mock thread then anything else:rolleyes:

So that's why you decided to come over here vote & Troll on the PlayStation forum? Off you go now back to your xbox buddys :rolleyes:

The One Who Knocks

*votes No to be different*

*checks poll results*


....sigh

GrumPy

10,000 consoles.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/19/sony-says-ps4-failures-have-varying-causes/

Small considering a million sold, but 10,000 customers are pretty disappointed!

Sephiroth_dude

Hopefully none of us will

zl1whqvjs75cdy

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One percent failure rate is not great. How did they not learn from last time.

Captain Chaos

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donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

One percent failure rate is not great. How did they not learn from last time.

That's actually very good, nothing is manufactured with 100% reliability it's almost impossible and that's from the first production run. Think about the amount of parts and components and the fact there the consoles are still hand built to an extent, people make mistakes, its the human condition.

Josey Wales

Good news for Americans with a faulty PS4. Sony is shipping out replacements immediately.

Article

Riesen_Meal

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Josey Wales wrote: »

Good news for Americans with a faulty PS4. Sony is shipping out replacements immediately.

Article

Hopefully not taking numbers off our sexy European units... :P

jimboblep

Glad i decided to wait now after getting stung with rrod on 360 i said their was no way i was early adopting prob get it in the new year when these issues are resolved
Although an engineer buddy of mine did make an interesting observation that their are two internal heat sources inside the ps4 in a small area with what he considered very poor ventilation

Snake Plisken

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Was a bit worried when I saw the made on China on my gamer edition box but worked fine upgraded the harddrive to 1tb installed the 1.51 OS and powered up working fine! Thank you Sony

lertsnim

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No problems with mine either

The Chinese. A great bunch of lads

DUBLINHITMAN

Fml I just voted no because I didnt read the small print
so the poll is foooked
as my ps4 is working great

DUBLINHITMAN

Fml I just voted no because I didnt read the small print
so the poll is foooked
as my ps4 is working great

NotorietyH

As I posted in the mega thread, mine had BLOD. Worked okay for an hour then wouldn't't start up even I'm safe mode. Should have replacement by Thursday according to Sony. So turnaround is quick enough at least.

Snake Plisken

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NotorietyH wrote: »

As I posted in the mega thread, mine had BLOD. Worked okay for an hour then wouldn't't start up even I'm safe mode. Should have replacement by Thursday according to Sony. So turnaround is quick enough at least.

Wow sorry to hear that was it made in China? Was it a pain working through their customer service? Do they just look for the console itself back or have u o return box controllers etc?

COYVB

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donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

One percent failure rate is not great

a one percent failure rate would be incredibly successful - far better than any console ever released

no chance it'll be that low though

Otacon

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Mine was fine - and I installed a new HDD straight away too so I was adding to the risk. I checked it beforehand and saw it was made in China. As soon as I did, I took it out of the box and inspected the HDMI port but there was nothing wrong with it. I have had it on almost constantly since I got it and have had no issues.

COYVB

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Otacon wrote: »

I checked it beforehand and saw it was made in China

I think this China thing is being overblown. I've yet to see ANY stock made in Japan, and I don't think there's any correlation between which Foxconn factory the units were made in and malfunctions. Sony has claimed that most of the issues are due to the units being damaged in transit

NotorietyH

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Wow sorry to hear that was it made in China? Was it a pain working through their customer service? Do they just look for the console itself back or have u o return box controllers etc?

Yep made in China. Customer service about five minutes on hold, were great to deal with, ran through a few troubleshooting things I'd tried already. Said earliest courier could get to me would be two working days so Tuesday, and would have new replacement console in two to three working days after that so probably Thursday. Was quick and painless. So hopefully it'll have quite a quick turnaround. Just sending the, console. No wires, cables or controllers. Courier picks it up, don't even need to package it. Just hand him console.

polarax

NOOOOOO! My PS4 doesn't work :(

Mine works perfect. Was playing on it for more than twelve hours yesterday and was amazed how very little heat comes of it.

Myrddin

NotorietyH wrote: »

Yep made in China. Customer service about five minutes on hold, were great to deal with, ran through a few troubleshooting things I'd tried already. Said earliest courier could get to me would be two working days so Tuesday, and would have new replacement console in two to three working days after that so probably Thursday. Was quick and painless. So hopefully it'll have quite a quick turnaround. Just sending the, console. No wires, cables or controllers. Courier picks it up, don't even need to package it. Just hand him console.

Did you buy direct from Sony or a 3rd party retailer?

Varik

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DUBLINHITMAN wrote: »

Fml I just voted no because I didnt read the small print
so the poll is foooked
as my ps4 is working great

Doubt is matters, the poll started out with a load of trolls saying that their PS4 was broken before the PS4 even came out.

onemoredead

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mine works 100%!
but, not played it that much!!

spending, most of time at moment xbox one, as cod on xbox!

both are SAVAGE

NotorietyH

Myrddin wrote: »

Did you buy direct from Sony or a 3rd party retailer?

3rd Party, Harvey Norman's. Tried ringing them first to see if they'd have a replacement but knew they wouldn't with it being launch day.

Myrddin

NotorietyH wrote: »

3rd Party, Harvey Norman's. Tried ringing them first to see if they'd have a replacement but knew they wouldn't with it being launch day.

Pretty decent turn around from Sony then, if they get a replacement to you next week

Hareton

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I may have voted too soon. Mine now keeps turning itself on and ejecting it's disk. Then it keeps trying to eject a disk that's not in there every ten seconds or so.

NotorietyH

Myrddin wrote: »

Pretty decent turn around from Sony then, if they get a replacement to you next week

Yeah I was happy with that, I thought it could be a few weeks with it being launch day and all so was fairly pissed off, but another week isn't so bad.

jonerkinsella

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Hareton wrote: »

I may have voted too soon. Mine now keeps turning itself on and ejecting it's disk. Then it keeps trying to eject a disk that's not in there every ten seconds or so.

Can you do a system restore in the settings menu ?.

Hareton

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jonerkinsella wrote: »

Can you do a system restore in the settings menu ?.

Yeah gonna try that tomorrow. No effort left in me after work. Found a lot of articles about the same problem with none offering a solution.

_Redzer_

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My PS4 works fine in that sense, but it's very loud at times, like booting up and installing a disk. Like louder than my PS3

Not sure if that counts as working ok

Snake Plisken

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_Redzer_ wrote: »

My PS4 works fine in that sense, but it's very loud at times, like booting up and installing a disk. Like louder than my PS3

Not sure if that counts as working ok

Think I read somewhere that the Blu-ray drive is noisier as it's a 6 speed drive vs the ps3 which had a 2 speed drive. So normal

jenjenten

NOOOOOO! My PS4 doesn't work :(

no issues thus far....but not played any games except resogun, why?....wanna wait unti more patches get released first, esp. BF4
i read that there are 2 chines versions of the ps4....made by different companies/factories

Grayditch

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Everyone I know who got either console has had no trouble, thankfully.

Varik

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Got some audio issues but it's hard to tell if it's due to the PS4 itself or BF4, the issue continues into the home screen always after manifesting in only BF4.

Connected over optical.

Riesen_Meal

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Varik wrote: »

Got some audio issues but it's hard to tell if it's due to the PS4 itself or BF4, the issue continues into the home screen always after manifesting in only BF4.

Connected over optical.

It's just BF4, its broken beyond belief...

_Redzer_

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Snake Plisken wrote: »

Think I read somewhere that the Blu-ray drive is noisier as it's a 6 speed drive vs the ps3 which had a 2 speed drive. So normal

Nah mine's definitely fecked for noise. Watched a few videos and they're near silent. Mine gets crazy loud.

Such a pain in the ass to sort it out with Smyths/Sony.

Do I just go in and they give me a new console right then and there?

Jet Black

My brother got his from HMV. Spend the last hour trying to get a disc into it with no luck. None of the solutions we tried from online has worked.