You just knew it had to happen, right? After the unprecedented amount of hype and positive coverage of the PS4, you just always felt in the back of your mind, "Don't fuck it up Sony."
And that's not to say they have. A few reports have surfaced of dead PS4s, and since a couple of the sources include IGN and Kotaku, you know they're legit. What we don't know is what is the source of the problem, and how many are affected?
Obviously there are plenty of working PS4s out there, and so far there are only a handful of reports of failures, but let's be cynical for a while. At least a couple of the failures appear to be a simple manufacturing defect, the HDMI port. Either this is a problem throughout all units or limited to a batch, but it's a pretty bad fuck up from a quality control point of view. The other units appeared to have failed randomly or after the firmware update. Either way, it's a little worrying.
On the other hand, if this was a genuine problem of a catastrophic nature, this would be blowing up the Internet by now. The way broken TVs from the Wii or Red Ring of Death for the Xbox 360 became a phenomenon, the PS4 situation would too, in no time. Now, the official launch is still a day or so away for the USA but I'm calling this as nothing to worry about, for now.
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