Foxconn intern claims PS4 was sabotaged during manufacturing

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According to a snapshot of a deleted forum post, interns at a Foxconn manufacturing plant in Yantai, China have deliberately sabotaged the PS4 citing working conditions at the plant.

The allegations first appeared on the IGN forums, which was locked shortly after. The author then tried to elaborate Below is a snapshot of the actual post

The intern noted that because Foxconn didn’t treat them well, they didn’t treat the PS4 well. Stating: “The ps4 console we assemble can be turned on at best.” which may explain the pulsing blue light issues that many people have experienced, mainly on Amazon shipments where about 33% of the total verified reviewers have reported the issue.

Although these claims cannot be verified, it's no secret that Foxconn has been in the news frequently for their alleged mistreatment of workers, and possibly comes as no surprise that this sort of retaliation is an easy thing for workers to carry out on the Day One release of the console.

In any case, we'll be keeping an eye out for any sort of verification on these claims as Sony investigates the issue themselves.



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KatsumiPosted:

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Katsumi I'm glad that i didn't pre-order and buy one initially. I'll wait it out for around a year and see how things go


Or until Christmas. They will fix it by then.


I can only hope. I think they should be fixed around then but i would like to be sure that nothing else major occurs with the PS4

ParcoolPosted:

whats the point in sabotaging a console

CaszechPosted:

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

TeachMehowtoJewPosted:

Microsoft paid these people to sabotage the ps4 good. job Microsoft phase 1 complete

BRSPosted:

Katsumi I'm glad that i didn't pre-order and buy one initially. I'll wait it out for around a year and see how things go


Or until Christmas. They will fix it by then.

DissPosted:

Damn, 33% of people are having this issue, that really must suck. All they want to do is play on the next-gen and they can't, I'd be furious. Hopefully they get some sort of refund or something beneficial.

DissPosted:

Shen This won't make me wait to get a console on day one. Seems most of the people saying never buy the console so early is because they don't even have the money for it.


I mainly am not buying any next-gen consoles for atleast till the new year because all the games I want are being released on the 360 except for Titanfall.

I could afford both the PS4 and Xbox One right now but I see no need in wasting my money in either.

KatsumiPosted:

I'm glad that i didn't pre-order and buy one initially. I'll wait it out for around a year and see how things go

chevyrydinhigh2Posted:

Shen This won't make me wait to get a console on day one. Seems most of the people saying never buy the console so early is because they don't even have the money for it.


I'm waiting because if I buy the ps4 and something is wrong with it, it's getting smashed and $400 down the drain.

Evo8Posted:

This won't make me wait to get a console on day one. Seems most of the people saying never buy the console so early is because they don't even have the money for it.


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