Amazon suppresses PS4 sales; DOA systems may be at fault

[Machiavellian]

Pipedream24 said:

Machiavellian said:
I thought the DOA was when people where trying to download the update and it did not properly update the firmware. Not really defective hardware and something Sony has messed up on in the pass. I believe getting around this problem is to download the update from your PC, put it on a USB stick and update the PS4 that way.

The second problem I heard about is how there is a mettle piece where the HDMI cable plug into. this can cause people to apply to much pressure to plug in the cable thus bending the connection.

The systems are overheating....and apparently the majority of the faulty systems came from Amazon. My brother and I both preordered launch consoles from amazon. Mine is working fine and his DOA. It fires up for three minutes then shuts off. The fans are not running inside to cool the system. He called Sony and was on hold for 2 and a half hours. The rep said that they had been slammed with calls of overheating systems all day and didn't even get him to try the usual nonsense to make the system to work. The rep told him 9 out of 10 of the faulty system calls were coming from people who purchased on Amazon. He got off the phone at 10pm and the rep told him they had a backlog of over 800 calls still on hold.

Ahhh, must be a bad batch build sent to Amazon.  That will really suck for a lot of people who pre-ordered from Amazon since they are so big.  I wonder if this is a plant issue or a shipment issue.  I guess both will have to be investigated.