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What Is The Playstation 4 Red Light

While most of the Playstation 4 consoles that gamers have gotten their hands on have worked without issue, there are some cases — less than 0.4% according to Sony — where the console isn’t working the way it’s intended.

There have been reports of faulty HDMI ports, an inability to download the update from PSN and even a “red line of death”. You read that right. On some people’s consoles, a blinking red line has appeared followed by a shut down of the system. But what exactly does the red light mean?

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Snookies123815d ago

Lies! Such things do not exist!

ChrisW3815d ago

Red lights exist in many places... On traffic lights, emergency vehicles, and especially in the Red Light District in Paris.

SOD_Delta3815d ago

I got a DOA PS4, but It's the Blue Pulsing Light of Death. Not a red light.

Xsilver3815d ago

@SOD-Delta
I thought Kotaku already speculated what the blue light might mean try this Video http://n4g.com/news/1394264... hope it helps.

MRMagoo1233815d ago

@SOD

Wasnt the blue pulse light the HDMI problem ? have you checked to see if you bent it stuffing in the cable? maybe check that perhaps.

SOD_Delta3815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

@ Xsliver & MRMagoo123 I looked and that wasn't the case for me.

The blue light seems to mean different things. Many people are having issues with bricked PS4 right out of the box.

http://community.us.playsta...

I was lucky enough to get a hold of Sony CS in 15 minutes. Many people said they've waited hours.

PS: Thanks for trying to help Bubs for both of you.

Snookies123815d ago

Well! At least 3 people know the truth! That red is not a color, and lights do not exist!

ZBlacktt3815d ago

Some of us wouldn't know, lol. Been gaming all day long!

BG115793815d ago

So blue light of death, kind of reminds me of a screen.

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ALLWRONG3815d ago

The red light is something Sony said wasn't real but it is.

Qrphe3815d ago

How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real

CloudyAero3814d ago

(I understood that reference)

M-M3815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

Here are the possible issues, these are the issues that made my PS3 overheat and could be related to the PS4 issues.

- Not in a well ventilated area.

- On the carpet, one of the best things you can do to make your console overheat.

- The manufacturing companies used cheap thermal paste or no thermal paste at all(it happens, people forget) for the heat sink and APU(this is probably what's causing the supposed "out of the box" RLOD"). One of the problems that made the PS3 YLOD happen was a mixture of power consumption, cheap soldering, and using a not so good thermal paste that wears quickly.

If you're the last point, then you're apart of the unfortunate 0.4% =(. The amount of people having issues with the PS4 is minimal though, I see many people without issues.

ChrisW3815d ago

-Not in a well ventilated area?
Only if completely enclosed, from what I understand.

-On carpet?
You'd think Sony would have considered that people would be putting it on their carpeted floor... Thus, I don't see this as a viable reason at all.

-Use of cheap thermal paste?
Even if so, it normally takes extensive use for the paste to falter.

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As for the 0.4%, Sony said that percentage was based on numbers shipped. So, we'll have to wait to see if the problem is more wide spread as people turn on and update their PS4s.

Let's hope it's not.

Xsilver3815d ago

So far everyone i know has no issues so it really might be a isolated problem all we can do is play outr PS4's and wait to see if this becomes a thing really hope not.

M-M3815d ago

"Only if completely enclosed, from what I understand."

"You'd think Sony would have considered that people would be putting it on their carpeted floor... Thus, I don't see this as a viable reason at all."

Put your PC in the corner of a wall on a carpet so that all of airflow is cut off and the carpet absorbs the heat. Just because it's not in an enclosed area, it doesn't mean it won't overheat. For example, you can put a PC or console in the middle of the room, yet it won't do any good if it's 100 degrees in the house.

"Even if so, it normally takes extensive use for the paste to falter."

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_J...

I'm telling you, it wasn't that great lol. I've seen people opening PS3s they haven't extensively and it looked somewhat like that image.

TripleAAARating3815d ago

What's going on with customers over on Amazon? It's almost 50% of people writing reviews claiming they received a DOA unit @_@

ChrisW3815d ago

@M-M,

The reason why I don't see carpet being a viable reason is because, unlike most PC cases, there aren't ventilation ports on the bottom (if laying flat) of the PS4.

BarneyS3814d ago (Edited 3814d ago )

@TrippleAAARating

50% might seem like a lot but you gotta see things in perspective here.
First: Amazon probably sold a lot of consoles (my guess is around 100.000). There are 500 reviews up there, you say halve of them are doa's. Now even if only 10% of the people who received a bricked console wrote about it in a review, the failure rate of the PS4 would still be within industry average.
Second: People who receive a bricked console are far more likely to be vocal with a review. And ofcourse, they have every right to be. On the other hand, a happy consumer is less likely to write a review bacause he's playing his PS4 right now.

kneon3814d ago

Putting it on a carpet is very good way to overheat a console, but it will take some time. Floors are a very dusty environment so putting it on the floor will result in it sucking in a lot of dust.

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Athonline3814d ago

Another common issue with embedded devices like consoles, TV boxes, etc or even laptops:
-In favour of a quite system, fan tables were modified.
-In order to meet demand, Sony like ALL companies supplied parts from multiple companies. Some of these suppliers may have lower temperatures limits.

Actually a combination of above maybe the problem.

In any case a 0.4% isn't bad at all! Most products got a much higher % on their launch window. Just imo press is trying to make articles and topics out of nothing.

ELpork3815d ago

Over heating you say? On, what's basically, a computer? Blow me down johnny.

kewlkat0073815d ago (Edited 3815d ago )

Its what that Twitter Sony guy lied about...

What is the max tdp thermal design power of cpu in the Ps4? before the warning lights..

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KEMCO ditch the RPGS for a horror Visual Novel - Horrific Xanatorium

Available right now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC is the latest from a prolific KEMCO team - Horrific Xanatorium; a horror Visual Novel

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Days Gone, 5 Years Later

Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?

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mkis0076h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows906h ago(Edited 5h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0074h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19894h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw6h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno5h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy854h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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