Early PS4 Adopters Report Having Hardware Issues

<p>Though the PlayStation 4 doesn&&num;8217&semi;t officially launch until midnight tonight&comma; some have managed to get their hands on Sony&&num;8217&semi;s next-gen system early&comma; be it from a Taco Bell contest or one of Sony&&num;8217&semi;s launch events&period; Unfortunately for some&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re having trouble with their fresh out of the box systems&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One Reddit user&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;reddit&period;com&sol;r&sol;PS4&sol;comments&sol;1qjhun&sol;i&lowbar;have&lowbar;the&lowbar;taco&lowbar;bell&lowbar;ps4&lowbar;right&lowbar;now&lowbar;in&lowbar;my&lowbar;hands&lowbar;ama&sol;">Arogon<&sol;a>&comma; has experienced such hardware issues&period; In a post on Reddit&comma; he explains that his PS4&comma; when attempting to use it&comma; continues to have a pulsing blue light that doesn&&num;8217&semi;t change to white &lpar;a sign that it has turned on completely&rpar;&period; He contacted tech support multiple times&comma; with two refusing to help&comma; as the system wasn&&num;8217&semi;t officially out yet&comma; and two others trying to help him fix his system&comma; but with no success&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2013&sol;11&sol;14&sol;broken-playstation-4-systems&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;fbposts&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;facebook">IGN<&sol;a> reports that they also had problems with one of their PS4s&comma; but only after the 1&period;50 update was applied&period; After trying various methods that also resulted in nothing new&comma; they contacted Sony PlayStation PR&comma; which led to a Sony Rep coming to replace their system and pick up the faulty one&period; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;kotaku&period;com&sol;the-playstation-4-the-kotaku-review-in-progress-1463521231">Kotaku<&sol;a> had a problem with their retail PS4&comma; and after a big of diagnosing&comma; concluded that the problem was due to a bad HDMI port&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier today&comma; Sony President of Worldwide Studios&comma; Shuhei Yoshida&comma; tweeted the following regarding the PS4 issues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet"><p>Be assured we are investigating reported PS4 issues&period; The number is very small compared to shipped&comma; we believe they are isolated incidents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>— Shuhei Yoshida &lpar;&commat;yosp&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;yosp&sol;statuses&sol;400989816617443328">November 14&comma; 2013<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s unfortunate that early PS4 owners are experiencing issues with their systems at all&comma; be it a small batch or not&comma; but better to know about it before its intended launch than to find out when thousands of people get the hands on it&period; If anything&comma; I guess this reinforces some people&&num;8217&semi;s stance on not buying new tech day one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;