Mine too. Have to try and exchange. After reading some of the issues I got a bit worried. Oh well. My ps4 games will have a rest until next week.My PS4 that I waited 6 hours in line for was DOA.
If anyone knows anywhere in central IL with some in stock, I would really appreciate a heads-up.
Pretty awesome if you're into arcade MP racing. Don't get it at full price if you don't have broadband.
Thanks. I don't know what I will pick up today. I have KZ coming from newegg. Only other games I'm interested in would be 2k14 or maybe Knack. But I don't feel like Knack is worth $60 AC looks sweet, but I could never really get into any of the others.
Square trade is supposed to be awesome. Plus their plans are cheaper. Especially if you can find a coupon to get a percentage off.
Never used Square trade but I'm hearing good things. I basically rely on the extended warranties provided by CC companies.
It's not. The affected will probably be around 20k PS4s and the small sample we have here is in line with that.
But where the hell did he pull .4% from? He said it on launch day in the morning I believe that was before a large amount of people starting complaining. And again where is he getting that number from?
It was and they took a crazy bath on it. The store I worked at was the highest volume store in the state and more 360s went out the door to those plans than new it seemed like.
Have you played a DICE game at release before? They're usually broken messes for months. BF4 was by far their best release and they've done a phenomenal job getting the PC version patched up. Even more so that almost all of the problems are on the server side. The last big patch to the servers fixed all the major issues the group I play with was having. They'll get the console versions fixed up but it takes longer with the certification and junk they have to go through.
That number is not believable for the reason you mention. Basically, how can they know the defect rate while they're still sitting in stores? It's probably the percent that their engineers told them. It doesn't seem at all possible at this point. I've seen other sites where people are comparing the manufacture location and time and it seems almost all the defective consoles originate from a certain factory in China and built during a two month period. Maybe outside of that one factory it really is a .4% failure rate?
30% Code. The usually email people a ton of them or post them to Facebook. I have a spare I can PM if you want it.
What else is there to go by? I felt like you do about them with the Xbox 360 and I ended up regretting that. I'm planning on getting a PS4 once Infamous and Watch Dogs are out. If this high failure rate pans out then I'm not buying one till the slim is released in a couple of years. I'm basing my buying decision solely on what's reported on console reliability because I didn't listen to it last time and it turned into a major pain in the ass.
This is what I don't understand. Apparently, the BBY in my town had to do something about 20 defective consoles. That's just in one town. That .4% is quite the underestimate unless something happened out of the norm here. In fact, I went in to BB last night hoping to find a PS4 - they had none - and try it out (I was very impressed), but even if I they had one I probably wouldn't have picked one up because of something that happened there. Customer Service was backed up with about 8 people in line. I don't know how many, if any, were there for possible PS4 problems but while I was talking to an employee as I was playing the FIFA demo, a lady came up to him saying that they had pre-ordered a PS4 and it was not working. The odds just don't add up that only .4% of PS4s have some type of problem.
Do you know if everyone was defective or people freaking out and returning it because they heard of defective issues?
I readily admit that it's a bit early to say that it's a super high defect rate. It's also true that there might be fake reviews and possible that MS hired that PR firm they used after the reaction to their announcement to spam bad reviews at Sony. The games I want aren't out for a while but I'm keeping a close eye on this.
lol If you look at the way I wrote that comment, I was careful to not assume that. "I don't know how many, if any, were there for possible PS4 problems." What got me was that I was there for 10 minutes at a random time, and that lady happens to show up at that time with a non-working PS4. A very good friend of mine also had a customer try to return a PS4 game at Family Video because his PS4 was DOA, or so he told him. I don't know, what the actual failure rate is, but all I'm saying is that I don't believe it's .4% or less. I hope I'm wrong, as I really want one.
In the same boat as you: Overnight shipping from CA to NY from Newegg. I called FedEx about this and said there was a truck fire preventing planes from taking off. I was told to call when it gets delivered and file a claim to get my shipping cost refunded. Really bummed about this and was really looking forward to having it day one instead of waiting with the free shipping option. Oh well. No more pre-ordering systems online for this guy.
Where did you buy it from? I want to see the video because I know a lot of these are apparently HDMI problems which is weird considering that millions (billions?) of electronics now have HDMI ports so why is this so hard?
