My PS4 just bricked.

And before you get all fanboy, I have (still - and love it) a first gen, 20 gig Xbox 360 that suffered the RROD.

I bought a PS4 about a week ago. Figured I'd try Sony's side of the fence. I absolutely love my 360 and have had a brilliant gaming experience on it. But really, all that was keeping me in the Xbox corner was Halo, and to be frank, while the game is very, very, good, the story is getting a little stale for me. And the RROD thing sucked, but it wasn't a factor in the switch.

I did, however, assume that Sony would provide a more reliable product than did MS. I was wrong.

For a week, I was very happy with my purchase. I got Battlefield 4 and it's been a blast. And then, boom. It stopped communicating with PSN. CE-34878-0 was the error code. The techs said initialize, which erased my game progress and all the rest of the system. Not a big deal since I'd been playing mostly multiplayer. But the PS4 didn't recover from the initializing and bricked.

Now, being only a week with the system, Target took it back and I hesitantly exchanged it for another.

So, I'm declaring System War on all early adopter units of console game machines. In fact, I'm declaring System War on System Wars. I'm all for competition. I think it makes Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo better. But when they rush their product in order to simul-launch their systems, instead of taking the time they need to properly quality control for their product, then we suffer the ramifications.

Lesson learned. Next time, I'm waiting a year. No matter which system I choose.

I have a sneaking suspicion that your thread will get locked.

i don't know where to begin

NB4L

500 posts....

Couple short.

PS : Welcome to a Sony product.

A whole week... you're going to base reliability on all PS4's on one console that lasted a week. Have you ever heard of acceptable product failure rates, most being dead or almost dead on arrival.

At least it died quickly. From what I've heard both consoles have been extremely reliable especially considering they are the first versions. Too early to claim hardware design defects.

Acceptable product failure rates are one thing. But both happen to me? RROD and Clever-Sony-Acronym for this bricking? What am I, jinxed or something? You're right, though. At least it went quickly. Only a minor inconvenience form me in the end, but still...

Piss on it and then trow it away. That console deserves it.

I'm sorry to hear this.

My diagnosis is that it had a hard time rendering shadows.

No the Xbox360 had a very high failure rate probably as much as 50% so it's not that unlikely, it would actually be the 1% or whatever the failure rate of the PS4 is. So you are probably one of the 60,000 unlucky people to have a broken PS4 if it is as high as 1%.

my early version of ps2 (v4) is still working ......lolololol

Justin timberlake - cry me a river

Sorry cant embed as im on my phone but its the first thing that comes to mind

@speedfog:

You need a hug.

Congratulations, you're apart of the 0.4% failure rate. The lowest failure rate out of any console ever. You should feel special.

@Crossel777: oh look another person that believed a Sony lie. Keep up your faith in a dying company though. They need people like you.

We totally believe you.

I don't know what to say to you.

That sucks bro. At least it bricked in it's warranty period.

@FoxbatAlpha: 6 million consoles sold. some are bound to not work. mine works just fine.

Just not buying this.......bs detector is going crazy.

INB4LOCK

This guys' been here since 2005, I think the mods will let this thread live.... just a hunch.

Obviously not an alt or troll.

Look, I never had to get into the warranty. It was a week old. Target let me swap it out. And I got another PS4, so I'm not saying Xbox One was the way to go. In fact, my RROD experience cost me, like, 5 weeks of being down and out. This PS4 crash resulted in one evening of not being on after work and an overnight download of the Battlefield 4 DLC and Resogun. No big deal, right? So if we're comparing brick experiences...

My point is, these system wars end up better for gamers because of the competition. But in the rush to get to battle, there are casualties. Having a $400 dollar machine become a paperweight seven days after being unboxed - to fairlylight use, btw - is difficult for me to swallow as being just part of the process. Nothing else electronic that I own has ever done this. Yet, the last two consoles have. I'm just saying...

if you look at hardware problems for this new gen the ps4 seems to have more problems than the other consoles if it run hard when playing killzone whats going to happen with a more demanding game? I can see us going through a lot of ps4 and ds4 this gen

CE-34878-0 is a software issue. Not hardware.

Had no clue that new products could even have a failure rate.

Begin with the cheese toasty...

(yes I now try and include cheese toasty references in all threads that will get locked)

That sucks but at launch these things are expected to happen among a few units out there. I have no problems with mine so far, but this reminds me of a time when my launch 360 rrod twice but luckily it got fixed and works like a charm even today.

My rule is if it fails three times get rid of it (my 360 was the closest console I almost sold if it would have failed again)

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