Not that they need to but I've seen a disturbingly high amount of gaffers coming out to be unpaid PR for Sony this weekend in this BLOD/faulty PS4 situation.
I've seen excuses range from the way Amazon outrageously packed their boxes,to user error(or as one gaffer lovingly called them "fucking idiots"),to people with "cheap" HDTV's to chinese student sabotage at the Foxxconn factory. Basically everything that avoids blaming Sony directly.
Now whatever the situation is, it's a problem for some people and I don't think anyone is saying that this will be a Xbox 360 RROD situation, but something is going on with systems.
What is making me laugh is all of a sudden hardware failure is absolutely acceptable and in fact is completely expected. Especially if it's a Sony product. Some of these guys have spun themselves around so much and become so engaged in paranoia that other idiots may be posting FUD Amazon reviews, That they've become everything they moaned about for months 'corporate cocksuckers'. It's also amusing seeing a lot of gaf led by certain mods sticking to this 0.4% 'failure' stat tweeted by Sony last week like their life's depended on it. With the X1 releasing this week it will be interesting to see if MS have the same problems or it goes a lot smoother.
Some golden posts in this thread.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=718148Failure rate is acceptable. Entitled children assuming everything they buy will work properly. They probably assume Best Buy employees know what they are talking about too. Christ. It's simple: if humans are involved in the production of your goods then there will be errors.
Doesn't say much but I believe firmly that TV compatibility issues are playing a role here.
dark10x continues his utterly shameless displays and his job is to post comparisons? And he expects us to trust his word?
ghst is once again the voice of sanity. And that's scary as shit.
nobody knows the full extent of this, but you'd have to be squinting through particularly frosty lenses if you think the situation looks normal. the 0.4% figure was based on the initial batch they handed out to journalists and i think it might just come back to bite them.
there has been this unsettling narrative that the PS4 is the first release of its kind in "the age of social media" and so of course the negative reports seem exaggerated, despite there being multiple million selling smartphone releases every few months which receive an entirely muted response in terms of reports of defective units.
