Early PS4 adopters are reporting hardware failure & console locks

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The PlayStation 4 is upon us! With that being said, early reports from customers who managed to obtain Sony's latest console early have already been rolling in reporting hardware failure.

The first report came in from NEOGaf users "Dylx," who claimed simply updating the console caused the light bar to turn white while subsequently "bricking" the console:

After playing a brief game of NBA 2k14 I quit and inserted my battlefield 4 disk. The system prompted for an update, so while watching the progress bar (Around 20%) my controller light turned from blue to white. Hasn't worked since...

Get those extended warranties ready! and SCEA on speed dial!

users from other areas of the internet have also popped up having similar problems. Reddit user "Arogon" has expressed the same type of issues with his Taco Bell supplied unit

If that wasn't bad enough, another Reddit user by the name of "YearsofLove" also reported a similar issue from his Taco Bell supplied PlayStation

Now clearly these are pre-launch consoles that could potentially suffer from a lack of proper software updates. It could also just simply be bad luck as all hardware does yield some form of failure rate. That being said, it's still a grim look into the negative's surrounding new hardware launch, negatives that more users will undoubtably experience in the coming weeks.

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Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/early-ps4-adopters-are-reporting-hardware-failure-console-locks

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TywinPosted:

Katsumi I can't say that i didn't expect something like this to happen. I'll be holding back on buying my PS4 for a few months


Over 20k consoles were shipped bricked, even more were defective.

TywinPosted:

ChubbyLumpkinz
LaserShow
Dreams lol already? guess its time for xbox to shine


We will just have to see. It seems more people are getting the PS4 early.


you do realize that they said not long ago even xbox is having loading issues and stuff right.


Xbox isn't have loading issues, that was the PS4 as well.

TywinPosted:

Woof
Dreams lol already? guess its time for xbox to shine


We will just have to see. It seems more people are getting the PS4 early.


Yes, more people are getting it early just to come into problems.

TywinPosted:

Caszech I guessed something like this would happen, I'm just going to wait a bit before getting mine. :)


You guessed that consoles would be shipped bricked?

TywinPosted:

I wish they would have worked out these kinks before they sold this $400 console to people.

KatsumiPosted:

Caszech I guessed something like this would happen, I'm just going to wait a bit before getting mine. :)


I will be doing the same. I wont be getting a next generation console until mid next year

CaszechPosted:

I guessed something like this would happen, I'm just going to wait a bit before getting mine. :)

ChubbyLumpkinzPosted:

roekzors
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VPN-V2 I'm waiting to see if the Xbox One has any major flaws.


I think every console with have faults at first :/ but microsoft probably have spend to much money to let this happen :/


No. Xbox one will be almost perfect. They learned from their mistakes with the 360.


if they learned from there mistakes why has there been mulitple reports of it freezing and locking on the load screen before the dashboard? nothing is ever 100% hell look at every single update that the 360 and ps3 put out and theres still issues.

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Katsumi I can't say that i didn't expect something like this to happen. I'll be holding back on buying my PS4 for a few months


We'll just have to see what the Xbox one does.

ChubbyLumpkinzPosted:

LaserShow
Dreams lol already? guess its time for xbox to shine


We will just have to see. It seems more people are getting the PS4 early.


you do realize that they said not long ago even xbox is having loading issues and stuff right.


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