Looking at the vids it's somewhat shocking to see so many different types of problem reported that appear to be hardware based issues (even if just overheating is the cause). I wonder if it is someone up with AMD's new APU? I mean, judging by their new PC graphics card's R9 chip running at 95°C which is meant to be in the normal operating temperature zone, I wonder if there's an issue out there to do with heat?

Not really looking good so far no matter how you look at it but numbers would be good for sure. And surely with all the different status light colours - pulsing amber/blue and red, they must mean something to Sony at least? I'm gonna try googling it. Maybe even Wiki will know eh?

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Guess it's also a case of user's being typical stupid consumers in some cases. For instance, and as you'd expect on reflection, the 'amber light' is standby mode.

Indeed, the red light is meant to reflect overheating issues which is somewhat concerning but addressable at least at Sony's end.

http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps4/basic...

I guess there's no fast cure for stupidity? Some of them (with marginal problems) could just turn their central heating down/air conditioning up? Though to be fair, in all cases there looked to be plenty of air around the console though no doubt they'd be better off buying the stand and having it placed in the upright position maybe?

Edited by deleted (Sun 17-Nov-13 08:30:12)

I guess there's no fast cure for stupidity? Some of them (with marginal problems) could just turn their central heating down/air conditioning up? Though to be fair, in all cases there looked to be plenty of air around the console though no doubt they'd be better off buying the stand and having it placed in the upright position maybe?

Your alright here then Spooky �.Arni type Mr Freeze

I like the bit when it says flashing red�.System over heating ?�.Answer�.Turn of system and wait until later to use it .

Should have said �ring this number the products faulty and we will get it replaced .

Just had another look at Amazon US today and the 5 star reviews are almost double the number of 1 star, so if we take into consideration people who are happy with the PS4 are less likely to bother writing a review compared to ones who have a faulty console then the picture is looking a bit better. Not very scientific I know be good when we get some solid numbers.

With the temperatures the PS4 is meant to operate between 5 and 35 C...

Does anyone know yet what the blue flashing light error is?

I read that Kotaku had a unit that would not output video and found that there was simply a piece of metal in the HDMI port that needed to be bent back into the correct position to allow the cable to be inserted.

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

Sony claimed they had 1 million pre orders back in August before they closed launch availability. If you read about 4,000 DOA's that is still only 0.4% which Sony have openly admitted. I dare say MS are keeping quiet because they don't want to stir up a shitstorm for themselves. In my limited experience, most electronic hardware failures are fairly immediate. It's expected. The RROD was a design flaw and to a lesser extent, so was Sony's YLOD. They aren't really comparable to expected manufacturing defects. If all of the reported cases were identical then I would be worrying, but as of yet I'm not at all concerned.

And that's not sticking up for anybody. I've got the right hump with Sony over my Pulse headset, but slack jawed yocals calling out Sony's QA process or blaming it on the Chinese is too funny for words.

"Brandene! Brings me my soldering pants!"

One thing i did notice though after watching quite a few Playstation 4 unboxing videos is the way they are packaged inside,just 2 bits of cardboard holding the playstation 4 in place and lose packaging around both the unit itself and the playstation 4 dual shock controller.

That actually seems as if its been dropped in a open ended freezer bag and not even sealed ? .

There is plenty of room for movement of this console if you ask me and Sony Packaging department or whoever thought this was a good idea needs to go back to using the usual quality packing with the hard foam type we see in previous versions of the console.

In reply to a post by time2die:

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

What an excellent link mate. I've bookmarked the site and will be reading a lot more, after such a balanced, constructive article and perfect synopsis, should you read right to the end of the second page that is (I'm looking at you MaGoo ).

Very good article just read through the first page. So it seems most of the errors are likely either because of bent pins in the HDMI port, corrupt/faulty HDD and firmware issues.

Yeah, that was one of the best article I've yet seen on this kind of hardware issue. Now, it looks like there may indeed be limited problems with the HMDI ports and this is a pretty easy issue to resolve in itself for Sony with a simple change of supplier I guess.

An interesting point about the PS4 and XBO using very computer-like OS's now and I for one am going to welcome you console boys to the world of BSODs. Haha. You'll have fun trust me!