A number of PlayStation 4 owners appear to have non-functional units that all suffer the same problem, a so-called blue light — or blue pulse — of death. We can’t tell how many and assume it’s a small but noteworthy minority.
Come on guys, use some critical logic. It's probably no more a problem than any other electronic that's been made.
They already said they expect .04% to fail. They also said they sold over 1 million in the first 24 hours. That leaves 4,000 people will failed systems. Even if it was up to 1% (which is still an acceptable number of failures for electronics) that's 10,000 people. That's only first 24 hours and we are at almost at 72 hours.
Now also think about this. Social media really wasn't around when the 360/PS3 launched. Now everyone has the ability to voice their opinion instantly. it would seem like a crap ton of systems are failing even if half of those 4,000 people go post their troubles. That's 2,000 individual documented reports of failed systems within the first 48 hours.
Not to mention it took PS3 months to hit one million sales and the 360 only had 360,000 units sold two weeks after launch. People that can't understand the ratio of these numbers see 2,000 reports and say "OMG PS4 SUKZ!"
Now don't get me wrong, it sucks ass for those people. I would be pissed too and defiantly be posting all around the net.
You just need to keep these reports in perspective. There is always the possibility that it's a much bigger issue. If you sit back and review all the facts, nothing really points to that yet.
Don't believe me? Wait for the X1 launch. They're set to ship similar numbers as the PS4 so they should have thousands of failed units too that the internet also blows out of proportion.
I'd agree with you about the warranty...But the funny part is the Sony sales rep were trying to get people to extend their warranty($79.99) when they called them with their PS4 problems.
That's just sad that you've got someone's money for a DOA console and they want to take more from you.
They've found fixes for the "Red Line of Death", yes, but users experiencing the Blue Light of Death are only successful in exchanging their faulty console directly with Sony or their retailer.
The pulsing blue light was due to a little metal part sticking up in the HDMI slot all u had to do was push it dwn go to IGN they will tell u its been fixed once u do that the system will work
neocores....Yeh right just poke down a piece of metal on your PS4 to make it work. WOW. I am having a great laugh on this issue as "TEH GREATNESS" is actually just a broken piece of plastic HAHAHA
All these months of Piss Stinking Sony Fanboys saying that Microsoft are a bunch of 180 scum bags have been landed with a melting piece of Sony SHIT. Failure rates are well into 30% now after releasing the full console to the public. I have maybe 3 or 4 friends out of the 10 PS4 buyers having to return it....OUCH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA H AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH A
I am a PC gamer so do NOT accuse me of been and "Xbot" it's just you shouldn't have trolled the RROD and Xbox One so hard for so long as it was always going to turn around and bite you on your Piss Stinking Sony Fanboy Arse.
Do NOT reply as you will only look stupid and i will bring up your old posts about how good the PS4 is + this will get removed and a bubble loss.
I am happy to lose a bubble or be banned just laughing at your poor pathetic kind who thought the PS4 was "TEH GREATNEZZZZZ"
LOL OMG i am still in stitches over how you hardcore trolled every Xbox One article, to be losing shares and customers over broken consoles.
LOL please please PLEASE don't reply you will just look like a Sony Defence Force fucking pecker.
More amusing is that Kotaku US posted a video yesterday addressing this. If you ram the HDMI cable in like a oaf it isn't going to work. The pulsing blue light is the PS4 trying and failing to get an output signal as the HDMI cable isn't connected properly.
Where did you get that 30% failure rate?? 3 out of your 10 friends had to return it??
I feel like you are pulling this out of your ass and you don't even have 10 friends, let alone 10 with PS4 systems. Everyone that I know who has gotten a PS4 has no problems what so ever.
Show me an official source that confirms 30% failure rate. If you can't, you'll just look like an asshole and an xbox fanboy. Which you are because we all know that xbox fanboys #1 scapegoat is to call themselves PC gamers and on PC we all know everything works and runs smoothly and nothing EVER brakes. Maybe you want to look at nvidia's lates flop, the almost $1000 video card that is faulty by design. You dumbass.
I cannot understand how an hdmi port would cause a flashing blue light. I unplugged my hdmi and guess what, it still started up fine. An hdmi problem should result in the system still starting you just cannot see it right? Unless the ps4 can recognize its there just messed up. I think that hdmi thing was a more isolated thing. Who knows tho with the internet, some things get blown up others do not.
I've got to agree with one thing Joe90 said, "you shouldn't have trolled the RROD and Xbox One so hard for so long as it was always going to turn around and bite you..."
The Xbots got as good as they give, there's no saints on either side of the fanboy war. Just loud mouthed belligerent fanboys that think they are saints.
I build PC"s and I have gotten my fair share of bad PC parts and I have fixed my fare share of store bought PC's. Failure rate on PC's is pretty darn high.
I have heard that workers at Foxcon (who were mad at Foxcon) sabotaged some of the PS4's that were going out from there. They were supposedly shipped from Amazon. But I also heard that Foxcon puts together the XBox one as well so watch out. As for my PS4 it is running without incident. Purchased from Best Buy at Launch.
you may be speaking too soon though...also a out of over 1,000,000 sold and out...0.4% was reported as faulty. if this was a major problem we would know by now. it is a problem though but the x1 hasnt come out yet...its predecessor had over a 50.0% fail rate ps3 just 3.0#. not to say ps4 will not have over 3.0% OR that x1 will have over 50.0% just saying nothing is safe from faulty launch mass produced consoles.
This has got to be the most retarded thing I've ever read in my life. You canceled your PS4 preorder because of an unproven failure rate, and you go back to the company that just recently had the highest failure rate for a console in history?? What ever it is you are smoking. I want some of it!
Well have fun with your X1 and I will have fun playing Infamous SS, The Order, and all the ND, SSM, MM, and the plethora of other developer's games, exclusive to ps4 = P
Ummm they already found a fix for it but nice way to troll need to do some research before u submit again