That's just how Xbox people think. http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s17e07-black-f...
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Many PS4 units dead on arrival
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Re: Many PS4 units dead on arrival
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently it's an overheating issue[0]. The 'red line of death' is not a sign that your PS4 is dead, but a sign that it needs to shut down to cool off. The Amazon reviews are complaining of a blinking blue "light of death," which I don't see described in the manual you linked to. "PS4 blue light of death" returns over 2 million Google results already. I'm no EE but I wonder if there is something really strange at pl…
"PS4 blue light of death" returns 101 results. If you mean searching without the quotes then that is just stupid since Google will return results that match only one of the search terms.
ps4 "blinking blue light of death": https://google.com/search?q=ps4+%22blinking+blue+light+of+de...
Re: Many PS4 units dead on arrival
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently it's an overheating issue[0]. The 'red line of death' is not a sign that your PS4 is dead, but a sign that it needs to shut down to cool off. The Amazon reviews are complaining of a blinking blue "light of death," which I don't see described in the manual you linked to. "PS4 blue light of death" returns over 2 million Google results already. I'm no EE but I wonder if there is something really strange at pl…
"PS4 blue light of death" returns 101 results. If you mean searching without the quotes then that is just stupid since Google will return results that match only one of the search terms.
I doubt Google is that dumb.
The estimate without quotes for "PS4 blue light of death" is 34M. For "Xbox One blue light of death" is 2.7M.
Although requesting the highest page (990) shows ~288 pages, so estimates are probably not that accurate.
Re: Many PS4 units dead on arrival
#84At least you know right away that they're dead. It'd be more annoying 6 months down the road.
Or worse, the Xbox 360 RROD issue, which was an inevitable ticking time bomb that could blow at any time.
How is it inevitable, my launch xbox360 has been running nearly continuously since it hit my porch on launch day.
Re: Many PS4 units dead on arrival
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This has always bothered me, both on Amazon and the iTunes app store. No lie, when I published my first app, one of the comments was "I'd rate this zero stars if I could." and my first thought was actually "wait, why can't you?" Overall, I think YouTube was on the ball by switching to a "Thumbs up, Thumbs down" rating system. "Out of five star" rating systems are always sabotaged by the fact that most people think in…
I wonder if a five star rating system could secretly count only the 2 and 4 star reviews without telling anyone, sort of filter out anyone passionate enough to try to game things...
IMDB (which is a 10-star system) has a 'secret algorithm' that fiddles with the raw data to come up with a computed score. It's been suggested that some of the factors involved include reduced weight for 1 and 10 star ratings (as well as the age of the user's account - votes from new accounts don't get as much weight, etc).
Re: Many PS4 units dead on arrival
#86I find it interesting that as of now with 516 5 star reviews and 332 1 star reviews (and very few 2, 3 or 4 star reviews) the average still shows up as 3.5 stars. It's interesting since the lowest value possible is 1, so more realistically it's not 3.5/5 but 2.5/4. I'm wondering if this makes a psychological difference and if less people would buy something on amazon if they changed their rating system to go from 0 -…
This has always bothered me, both on Amazon and the iTunes app store. No lie, when I published my first app, one of the comments was "I'd rate this zero stars if I could." and my first thought was actually "wait, why can't you?" Overall, I think YouTube was on the ball by switching to a "Thumbs up, Thumbs down" rating system. "Out of five star" rating systems are always sabotaged by the fact that most people think in…
Netflix does a great job by showing hint text of "Hated it" for 1 star. It certainly helps calibrate people, rather than having individuals come up with their own meaning of what 1-5 means.
Re: Many PS4 units dead on arrival
#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently it's an overheating issue[0]. The 'red line of death' is not a sign that your PS4 is dead, but a sign that it needs to shut down to cool off. The Amazon reviews are complaining of a blinking blue "light of death," which I don't see described in the manual you linked to. "PS4 blue light of death" returns over 2 million Google results already. I'm no EE but I wonder if there is something really strange at pl…
"PS4 blue light of death" returns 101 results. If you mean searching without the quotes then that is just stupid since Google will return results that match only one of the search terms.
PS4 "Blue light of death" ~ 18k results.
Re: Many PS4 units dead on arrival
#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
OnTrac likes to just leave packages in front of my door. On Market Street in San Francisco and mark the packages signed by "Door." Once in a while they'll ring the doorbell, but often I'll just find it there. So far, no one has stolen anything, but boy does it make me nervous.
Oh man. I live on Market too. OnTrac has done that same exact thing before, and sometimes I only discover it because someone passing on the street or a neighbor rings my doorbell to let me know I have a box outside. They also don't seem to be able to read, as they will accidentally deliver packages to xx30 when we're xx20 and vice versa. I hate them so much. I go out of my way to leave terrible feedback for shipping…
Here on the East coast we have LaserShip, which sounds like pretty much the same deal. They once delivered my package to a city 30 miles away to a family with a completely different name. Amazon loves to use them here too. It's a bit distressing that they don't exercise better oversight over their shippers, given how central that is to their business model.
Re: Many PS4 units dead on arrival
#89If the failure rate was as high as the Amazon reviews suggest it seems like there would be more news about this even from the mainstream non-tech media by now. Lots of people get pretty fanatical about video game brands so I personally wouldn't trust any of the Amazon reviews good or bad. Remember Amazon allows anyone to write a review of any product -- purchased or not.
Re: Many PS4 units dead on arrival
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I use to own a PS1 and a PS2 (The PS2 being the last console I have owned). I never heard about these problems until now. You'd be hard pressed to find a 360 owner that doesn't know of the RROD. You'd be hard pressed to find a non-gamer below their 30s who hasn't heard at least once something about the RROD. Don't mistake this for praise of Sony. Obviously they have a serious problem with the PS4, and I despise the c…
That's not my point. Of course the RROD was a monumental issue. Probably the biggest video game hardware related issue ever. My point is Sony's hardware is quite famous for being extremely unreliable. Every Playstation generation has been plagued with issues. Widespread, class action lawsuit worthy, issues. Sony has never once addressed them, admitted them, or made any effort to improve their quality. Sony simply doe…
I thought you don't have knowledge about PS3 reliability?
How can you say that every Playstation generation has been "plagued with issues"? You're ignoring their most recent efforts.