Amazon Customer Reviews for PS4 - Trolls or serious issues?

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TheEspionage said:

Carl2291 said:

If these apparent problems were widespread then social media would have blown up with people complaining about it.

They are

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/11/16/social-media-making-it-hard-to-gauge-scope-of-ps4s-technical-difficulties/

http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/15/playstation-4-problems-crashing-no-video-and-instability-on-launch-day/

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/11/sony-heavy-traffic-causing-online-problems-surrounding-ps4-launch/

http://www.product-reviews.net/2013/11/15/ps4-1-50-update-problems-with-broken-consoles

And plenty more.  Forbes says it best.  It is hard to tell yet.

yup the did say it best. 

 

"But if 90% of people who get a faulty console are complaining about it online, while only 9% of those with a working console are broadcasting their success stories, it’s going to seem unbalanced and like there’s some massive, widespread issue. And furthermore, with so many online gaming news sites in existence these days, the same stories about defective consoles are being bounced around between hundreds of sites, when really they may be reporting on a relative handful of units."