Yes...thats 9 million gamers or interested people that are learning and talking about these switch issues.

No one cares about it being a crowbcat video....they never will.

You mean like this video? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FwlK-jU8Yg

Crowbcat was  way less popular back then, that was his SECOND video so of course there was not a Crowbcat video with 9mil views, he had only JUST STARTED OUT. 

And his post is not irrelevant, it sites sources where official surveys were conducted to determine the prevelance of defects and the kind of defects happening.  That's not irrelevant. 

And the PS2 predates the massive connectivity that allows news to quickly become wide spread.

Edit:  oh, and as proof of the whole phenomenon where people were looking for defects in Xbone but not for PS4, look Crowbcat's first vid was on the Xbone and has twice the views of the PS4 one.  People were hyped and totally sold on the PS4, negativity was burried.  Not by Sony, just by hype.

700K ........IN 4 YEARS.....

9 MILLION......LESS THEN 4 WEEKS

bahahahhaahah its past your bedtime!

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-Super_Boom

I think you're joking about the PS2! Right?

I'm pretty sure you are but, just in case you aren't, I  personally had to buy three PS2s because they were made of rice paper. My nephew was able to get one at launch and the fan didn't work so we couldn't even finish a round of Tekken before it shut off. He had to send it back for repairs.  It couldn't read half the movie DVDs until it got a driver update and even then, still had issues with DVD compatibility.

Anecdotal evidence aside, there was a class action lawsuit against the PS2 and Sony settled and paid. 

Go home your drink.  I was in college and at least 20 people in my dorm had it ...not..one...problem. SOLID AS A ROCK.

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Ok. Let me put it simple for you so you can understand:

My point was the video EXISTED but didn't get 9 million views because he DIDN'T HAVE A LARGE FOLLOWING.  The defects were there, they are documented, there wasn't a video like the Switch's in terms of views because the guy who makes these as his main thing is Crowbcat and Crowbcat had essentially no subscribers, it was his second video, and didn't grab nearly the headlines then that he does now.  Now he has hundreds of thousands.  And social media spreads thigns far faster than even 2013 and early 2014.

The view count is a sign of how fast stuff spreads now and more than anything, the fact Crowbcat is far more known now. 

Oh and 9 million views is not indicative of the number of defects, it's purely indicative of how popular Crowcat's vids of this nature are and how fast it was spread by the media. 

The Sony brand and marketing deflected a lot of this.  The Sony brand has deflected stuff like this for ages.  For goodness sake there are people who legitimately think that the PS2 was more powerful than the GameCube to this very freaking day when the power gap was pronounced and documented.  Sony has always been a powerful brand.  The PS4 was the new hotness, the Xbone was a laughing stock, and the Switch is following up the Wii U, which was a flop.  People are much more apt to look for defects, to search it on YouTube, etc than they ever were to do so for the PS4.  And media is more on alert for a potential failure with the Switch than they were for the PS4. 

The reality is that every single console of recent memory going all the way back to the PS2 (or earlier, I would have to research though) has had defective units at launch.  It's a result of the initial stress that manufacturing and shipment pipelines are under during the initial rush to get the product to market and smooth out over time.  And no ammount of your condscending handwaving, arrogant dismissal, or ad homminem attacks on the messengers will change that reality.

But by all means, ignore all this.  Ignore reality and substitute your own version of the past that helps shore up the justification in your mind for your vitriolic brand loyalty if that makes you sleep better at night.  I personally have better things to do than waste time depating with the kind of person who insults those who dare speak a word against his favorite corporate product,  who has his fingers jammed firmly in his ears with regards to docummented facts.   

Had to trade my PS2 two times at launch, the first two units came defective. My Switch is perfect, the rest are bollocks of crybabys, worried about Switches success and the fact that it is beating the crap out of PS4 every week in sales.

Lol! 

I am drunk though. 

*Hic*

Seems like the general consensus is that most are straight, but there are some benders.

Like most things in life...