Poll of the Day > I hate my PS4. Its just a piece of shit.

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Got a PS4 when Bloodborne came out, I love Dark souls and that was my reason to choose Sony first for this gen.

After that game, which I didn't finish BTW (not a jab at the game, more at me), I haven't played a single PS4 exclusive.

Since then my PS4 has been nothing but a piece of trash that makes me wonder how the fuck it even got the go ahead to be a console.

The sensor that detects discs is broken. It broke about 4 months in. It spits discs out. I found a fix which involves using a tiny screw driver and taking the HD cover off, but that only worked for a year. The tiny screw is now stripped.

So to get a game to play, I now have to:

Restart my PS4

Immediately throw the disc in, as it starts up

Hold the PS4 at an angle while I screw the tiny screw

Hope to god it works

Ever since this problem lost the easy(er) fix, I download only. Nothing like playing Dark Souls 3, about to beat an invader and POOF disc gets spit out TOO BAD FOR YOU NOW YOU GET SPAM SAYING YOU DISCONNECTED AWESOME

Then sony decides to do pointless update #16493. It fucks over my router, as in, "What router? You have a router? Well I'm a PS4, I would know, and I dont see you have any network whatsoever!" Now I need to set it up manually every fucking time I turn the thing on, because it all of a sudden doesnt like my router. Thats if it even SEES my router. SO I have to restart the router, restart the system, etc.

Now imagine Im playing an online game ive got everything going the way it should, then disc spits out, I restart PS4, now I cant connect online, go to set up manually in the mean time disc spits out, get disc to work, no online because the wifi diasppeared ETC ETC. Spend more time fixing then I do playing....

Meanwhile my FUCKING XBOX recognizes BOTH the regular 2.4 ghz connection AND THE FUCKING 5GHZ CONNECTION IMAGINE THAT.

Did I mention the PS4 spits discs out even when there isnt one in it? Yep. I hear "BEEP" "WHIRRRR" over, and over, and over until i either shut it off or "fix" it. I could be playing something off the hard drive or just watching Netflix and BEEP WHIRRRRR BEEP WHIRRRR

Yep, I know. Its all my fault right? Fucking PS4 is only human, dont be so mean! Right? RIGHT?! STFU fanboys! I love sony too but that particular model, whichever it is IDK, is TRASH

I mean who the fuck thought it was acceptable to not have a 5ghz wifi connection on a suppsed online gaming console??? Cheapskate morons....
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You need a Snickers
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you never once considered maybe utilizing the warranty the console comes with and getting it fixed?

PPPPLAASSUMA posted...

I mean who the fuck thought it was acceptable to not have a 5ghz wifi connection on a suppsed online gaming console?

Who thought it was acceptable to use anything other than a wired ethernet connection on a online gaming console?
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PPPPLAASSUMA posted...

I hate my PS4. Its just a piece of shit.

Found the issue. If your PS4 is 'just a piece of shit', I'm sorry to tell you but that's just some random shit, not a PS4.

PS4 should look like this: https://psmedia.playstation.com/is/image/psmedia/ps4-overview-screen-03-eu-06sep16?$MediaCarousel_LargeImage$

If it looks like some sort of brown stuff, that's not it.

Hope this helps!

In all seriousness, your system definitely sounds faulty. Get it checked out, or if you're under warranty get a replacement.
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helly posted...

you never once considered maybe utilizing the warranty the console comes with and getting it fixed?

Is the PS4 warranty longer than the typical 90 days?
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I love when people assume that since they got a faulty unit that every PS4 (or XBOX/Switch/whatever) is garbage.

As per usual, faulty hardware is fairly uncommon.

Also, without knowing anything about you or any details of your situation, it could very well have been that you just broke your PS4 through improper care/use.
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PPPPLAASSUMA posted...

The sensor that detects discs is broken. It broke about 4 months in. It spits discs out.

You should have called Sony and got it repaired for free.
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helly posted...

you never once considered maybe utilizing the warranty the console comes with and getting it fixed?

I apparently did the stupid thing of asking someone and not researching myself. They told me it was a 90 day warranty. This entire time I thought it was. Also got told what I did voided the warranty. WHo told me this? No one special I just listened. Honestly I just now, as in 30 seconds ago, read online that its a year warranty. How about that? Fuck me.

TBH I've never once had a defective product that needed to be shipped to fix in my entire life. Kind of a foreign concept to me. "In my day things were just made right to begin with" All my consoles still work. Gameboy, NES, you name it, and I didnt treat them well by any means. My PS4 got the fucking royal treatment.

This topic is not to point the finger at sony, or me, its at MY ps4, the one sitting in my room taunting me like a douche with its beeping and constant whirrrrrrrr ya piece of shit
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Terminonatator posted...

I love when people assume that since they got a faulty unit that every PS4 (or XBOX/Switch/whatever) is garbage.

As per usual, faulty hardware is fairly uncommon.

Also, without knowing anything about you or any details of your situation, it could very well have been that you just broke your PS4 through improper care/use.

All I can imagine is this guy having sex with a PS4. Thanks for that image.
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Oh I'll add also even out of warranty Sony have fixed my PS3 at least for free as a "gesture of good will". I can't complain.
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wwinterj25 posted...

Oh I'll add also even out of warranty Sony have fixed my PS3 at least for free as a "gesture of good will". I can't complain.

Guess its worth a try. FFXII ZJS is coming out soon and Iwouldnt mind playing it problem free.
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EclairReturns posted...

PPPPLAASSUMA posted...

involves using a tiny screw driver and taking the HD cover off

Maybe you should have thought that through before asking:

PPPPLAASSUMA posted...

what I did voided the warranty. WHo told me this?

Doesn't your system have some kind of sticker blocking a screw indicating that you void the warranty by removing it? My PS2 had one, and I think my PS3 has one.

No sticker, and Im not even sure if it voided the warranty, thats just what I was told when it happened.

By the time Id done this, It was 4 months into what I htought was a 90 day warranty. Jesus, keep up. If you want to win this internet pissing contest of telling people they should know better for no apparent reason other than to feel good about yourself, at least pay attention.
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PPPPLAASSUMA posted...

No sticker, and Im not even sure if it voided the warranty, thats just what I was told when it happened.

Opening it up most likely does void the warranty. The lack of a sticker is unusual though...
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If all he opened was the Hard Drive bay, then that shouldn't void the warranty.

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/help-library/system---hardware/storage---data/upgrade-playstation-4-hdd/

If this is all you did in regards to which screws you took out, then you should be good.
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Bugmeat posted...

helly posted...

you never once considered maybe utilizing the warranty the console comes with and getting it fixed?

Is the PS4 warranty longer than the typical 90 days?

uh, they're usually always at least a year
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TC broke his PS4.
Blames Sony.
Uses wireless connection lolz.
5ghz wifi is only good for like 20 ft with line of sight.
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I used wireless and my ping is usually the best or near best in any online game.

Also TC is dumb
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My PS4 works fine. By the logic of this topic, everything anyone else says is invalidated.


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PPPPLAASSUMA posted...

Terminonatator posted...

I love when people assume that since they got a faulty unit that every PS4 (or XBOX/Switch/whatever) is garbage.

As per usual, faulty hardware is fairly uncommon.

Also, without knowing anything about you or any details of your situation, it could very well have been that you just broke your PS4 through improper care/use.

All I can imagine is this guy having sex with a PS4. Thanks for that image.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ciVKIm7bcg
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Kyuubi4269 posted...

PPPPLAASSUMA posted...

I mean who the fuck thought it was acceptable to not have a 5ghz wifi connection on a suppsed online gaming console?

Who thought it was acceptable to use anything other than a wired ethernet connection on a online gaming console?

Me.

I don't have any wires long enough
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Nightwish posted...

You need a Snickers

You're not you when you're hungry.
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if you don't like it, send it over to me, and I can wire you like 50 bucks or something
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