Sony sold its new generation of home game host PS4 (PLAYSTATION4) in North America on November 15. Prior to the launch of the new mainframe, there was a senior domestic machine player said that this is the first time Sony in the home machine before the start of the new machine and the momentum of the competition against Microsoft, and the fact that the million sales proved this point.
However, the unexpected quality problems or for PS4 should be beautiful first show cast a Shadow, before the favorable wind and the vast momentum in a variety of unimaginable quality problems, it is inevitable that some pale.
Unprecedented good momentum
The iphone and PS4 are the most wanted Christmas gifts for girls and boys, according to data from Ebates, a 12-17-year-old people's online shopping rebate website. According to industry analysts, Sony PS4 become a boy's most wanted Christmas gift is not surprising.
The industry personage says, although the Xbox One inherits the Xbox system main engine gun ball, but PS4 also can provide more characteristic things, like "The Ghost Weeps" "The Biochemical Crisis" "GTA" "the Final Fantasy" and "the alloy equipment" These has the long history series game, Its PS3 version usually sells higher than the Xbox360 version. The reason is that these products originated from the PS system mainframe, which makes PS4 in the impression of a better score.
In addition, because of the "War Machine" "Extreme race" and other games developers spit out the Xbox One development environment unfriendly and PS4, but also to some extent affect the xboxone before the sale of the momentum.
Selling 24-hour sales of millions
Many in the industry should not be surprised by the news that Sony PS4 sold a day of sales, which has been followed by analysts singing the Xbox One and PS4, saying PS4 will sell more than 1.5 million or more, while the Xbox One starter sales may be around 1 million.
Since then, analysts have proved that PS4 sold millions on the day North America was sold, and recalled that in 2006, PS3 's first-week shipments in North America were up to 175,000, lower than Sony's own estimate of 400,000.
Strange Quality problems
Compared with the 24-hour million-dollar sales record, Sony's first batch of PS4 hosts has been a worry.
In addition to the previous exposure can not be normal boot, there are domestic players said it purchased a serious problem PS4 assembly, the main body has cracks, machine screws are not tightened and accompanied by the splash screen problem. In addition, the hard disk lack of screw fixation caused by the failure to use the machine after the reboot repeatedly, the handle button press can not bounce back, the fuselage is missing disc out of the warehouse key even directly "brick" and other problems are one by one exposed.
Body cracks
PS4 can't enter Safe mode and "Change Bricks"
Media outlets say PS4 The reason why these incredible quality problems, because the Sony side of the assembly work to a domestic foundry factory, and foundry factories due to the poor treatment of trainee workers, resulting in workers deliberately "deal with", resulting in extremely quality problems.
The message is not known to be true or false, but it can be confirmed that Sony also had a problem with the PS3 when it started, but it is usually the first time for Sony, such as the compatibility of PS2 games and high-definition output in conjunction with older HDTV, such as the Assembly and quality mishap of the PS4 debut.