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Max King of the Wild said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Like I said... It was 40% this morning:

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

"Amazon, for example, has about 600 reviews of the PlayStation 4 launch edition up right now. The console is sitting at about 3 out of 5 stars, not due to middling scores, but because of 320 five star reviews and 260 one star reviews. Nearly all of the one star reviews are complaining about faulty hardware. Does that mean that the PS4 has a 40% failure rate? Of course not. "

You are doing it wrong

How so? I did mention that IF the reviews are true... They could be fake but if the reviews are true, it was 40% failure rate based on the amazon's reviews... I mentioned all that or are you too blind to see?



                  

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Like I said... It was 40% this morning:

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

"Amazon, for example, has about 600 reviews of the PlayStation 4 launch edition up right now. The console is sitting at about 3 out of 5 stars, not due to middling scores, but because of 320 five star reviews and 260 one star reviews. Nearly all of the one star reviews are complaining about faulty hardware. Does that mean that the PS4 has a 40% failure rate? Of course not. "

You are doing it wrong

How so? I did mention that IF the reviews are true... They could be fake but if the reviews are true, it was 40% failure rate based on the amazon's reviews... I mentioned all that or are you too blind to see?

Oh this is so hillarious.



Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

How so? I did mention that IF the reviews are true... They could be fake but if the reviews are true, it was 40% failure rate based on the amazon's reviews... I mentioned all that or are you too blind to see?

Even with the reviews being true you are still doing it very wrong



brendude13 said:
Torillian said:
My own PS4 works fine, one of my writers had an issue with his but he was able to fix it. Something with the HDMI port I believe.

HDMI problems seem to be quite widespread.

Any idea what the exact problem was?


I checked through my chat log and actually he had an issue with the update bricking it, but he was able to get into safe mode and do the update and then he was good to go.  My apologies.

 



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pezus said:
I got 10, 5 of which went up in flames when I accidentally put them too close to the fireplace after having spilled gasoline on them.


At least they gave you warmth, i'll count those 5 as double. I know it's freezing up there in the North.



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maybe we should start a campaign for everyone who ordered from amazon and didnt get a bad console, to post a review saying theirs is fine lol

chances are alot of people who ordered are happy and playing it and are completely unaware that any such problems exist.



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Euphoria14 said:
brendude13 said:
I was waiting for this thread.

A lot of PS4 owners on VGC, has anyone said they've got a dead unit yet?

Rol

Awww, I didn't know Austria got the PS4 two weeks early.



Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Max King of the Wild said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Like I said... It was 40% this morning:

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

"Amazon, for example, has about 600 reviews of the PlayStation 4 launch edition up right now. The console is sitting at about 3 out of 5 stars, not due to middling scores, but because of 320 five star reviews and 260 one star reviews. Nearly all of the one star reviews are complaining about faulty hardware. Does that mean that the PS4 has a 40% failure rate? Of course not. "

You are doing it wrong

How so? I did mention that IF the reviews are true... They could be fake but if the reviews are true, it was 40% failure rate based on the amazon's reviews... I mentioned all that or are you too blind to see?


What you can say is that 40% of those who decided to write an Amazon review had a failure, but you can't just assume that those with bricked consoles are just as likely to write up a review on amazon as ones that don't.  Even if we assume every single 1 star review is totally accurate that would not mean a 40% failure rate by any stretch of the imagination.  



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1,000,000 pre-orders.

1,000,000 x .004= 4,000 dead/faulty units.

I don't know why the 300 on amazon is such a big deal. maybe I'm missing something

Edited noob math



Torillian said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Max King of the Wild said:

You are doing it wrong

How so? I did mention that IF the reviews are true... They could be fake but if the reviews are true, it was 40% failure rate based on the amazon's reviews... I mentioned all that or are you too blind to see?


What you can say is that 40% of those who decided to write an Amazon review had a failure, but you can't just assume that those with bricked consoles are just as likely to write up a review on amazon as ones that don't.  Even if we assume every single 1 star review is totally accurate that would not mean a 40% failure rate by any stretch of the imagination.  

But I mentioned all that on my original comment... It was clearly referring to the amazon's review thing... 40% of the reviewers said it was bricked this morning but the reviews went up for both good and bad so it is now 34% because the amount of people that has a ps4 working finally decided to post their reviews...



                  

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