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That was even on the Austrian news in the stock market section. But I think the reports are greatly exaggerated. Afterall, we didn't see too much reports about this from TGS. I think Kikizo was the only one.

EDIT: It was Kotaku, that ran that story. Sry.
 
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kinda missed something vital :LOL:

About 200 PlayStation 3 units were clustered together in close proximity and housed in kiosks that concentrated the heat generated by their processors and provided poor ventilation, Kato said. Overheating under such circumstances is a common affliction at trade shows, afflicting not just Sony products but those of its competitors, she said.

"It's not a problem with the PlayStation 3 unit itself," Kato said. "For a normal player at home, there shouldn't be any problem."
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I bet their "source" was that Kotaku story. :rolleyes:
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33915

I was at TGS for almost 2 full event days. I did not see anyone having to reset a machine even once. It might have happened in isolated events. But I don't think it's indicative of a systematic problem. I'm pretty sure the stock price dipping has more to do with the battery problems sony has had than anything else.
 
inefficient said:
I bet their "source" was that Kotaku story. :rolleyes:
http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33915

I was at TGS for almost 2 full event days. I did not see anyone having to reset a machine even once. It might have happened in isolated events. But I don't think it's indicative of a systematic problem. I'm pretty sure the stock price dipping has more to do with the battery problems sony has had than anything else.
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Batteries are boring, PS3 is not
 
I guess we will know the truth soon. Are the 200 PS3s really clustered together ? They are just enclosed in kiosks that are close to each other right ?
 
patsu said:
I guess we will know the truth soon.
Are the 200 PS3s really clustered together ? They are just enclosed in kiosks that are close to each other right ?
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Okay guys, here we have SCEA response to these alleged crashes!

[UPDATE] David Karraker, senior director of corporate communications with SCEA, responded to Next-Gen's inquiry regarding the TGS overheating accusations in Gibson's aforementioned report.

He called Gibson's comments "unsubstantiated" and that "comments related to the alleged failure of PS3 units at TGS are also not attributed to a source."

Karraker offered up SCEA's official defense of the PS3's TGS performance to Next-Gen:

* Despite the report from Macquarie Securities implying that they had heard of reports of PS3's needing to be rebooted at TGS, SCEI are not aware of any instances of this occurring at TGS, nor have we received any reports from third parties to such effect.
* On the Press Day on Friday, and throughout the weekend the PlayStation stand was inundated by specialist gaming media, the majority of whom would have noticed if there had been a general problem with console overheating.
* The environmental conditions at TGS conspire to test any electrical item. In the case of PS3, the combination of pre-production software, running on pre-production debug units, enclosed in demonstration units without ventilation, and surrounded by so many eager fans that on Saturday and Sunday it was almost impossible to move, are bound to prove a challenge.
* If indeed, there was the occasional unit that needed rebooting, it was due solely to the adverse environmental conditions within the Hall and not to any more general problem with PS3.
* PS3 does not suffer from an overheating problem.
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http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3930&Itemid=2

I believe these crashes did not occur and if they did occur it probably happened with only 1-2 machines, because its rather amazing that not even IGN or Gamestop reported any of these crashes.
 
Sankari said:
Okay guys, here we have SCEA response to these alleged crashes!



http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3930&Itemid=2

I believe these crashes did not occur and if they did occur it probably happened with only 1-2 machines, because its rather amazing that not even IGN or Gamestop reported any of these crashes.
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Well its a common phenomenon from many media to take anything PS3 related and make it look bad. Sometimes you even wonder if there is a kind of community that work for this purpose.

I doubt they occured as well.
 
Except these "reports" to increase in quantity and decrease in quality as the PS3 launch approaches.
It's amazing how easily the stock markets are affected these days, by just some internet rumours.
It's not like the good old days, it's not indeed...

WE HAVE THE POWER!!!
 
"In its defense, Sony said the PS3 failures were caused by unusually high temperatures created by having many of the next-gen consoles operating in close proximity to each other. "It's not a problem with the PlayStation 3 unit itself," Sony spokeswoman Nanako Kato told the AP. "For a normal player at home, there shouldn't be any problem."

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6159254.html

Well you have a Sony spokesperson actually admitting failures happened. Isolated or widespread malfunctions is the issue, which I don't think that widespread malfunctions happened as more of the media would of noticed such phenomenon.

David Karraker is full of spin though. How can you say you have no reports of malfunctioning units yet attribute any malfunctions to the enviromental conditions at TGS? If there are no reports, then there must be no investigation of possible reasons for malfunctions, so his statement is nothing more than an opinion with the validity of an opinion from you or I.
 
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dobwal said:
David Karraker is full of spin though. How can you say you have no reports of malfunctioning units yet attribute any malfunctions to the enviromental conditions at TGS? If there are no reports, then there must be no investigation of possible reasons for malfunctions, so his statement is nothing more than an opinion with no more validity than you or I.
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"I can confirm that we did NOT have any malfunctions, but if we did have any, and we didn't, they would be caused by the fact that the PS3 were cramped in small very hot places. But we didn't. Really."
 
Well, there's a couple problems. The first was pointed out by dobwal. Can't have your cake and eat it too.

The other problem is that they are blaming any potential problems (which may or may not have actually existed) on the TGS environment in certain interviews, and then turning around in other interviews and explaining the problems away with a completely different excuse.

I can't find that article at this exact moment, but it's not just the issue that is hurting Sony.

It's the fact that they are 1) Denying it happened then 2) Blaming it on one set of circumstances and then 3) Blaming it on a different set of circumstances.

When that type of thing happens it certainly makes investors nervous.
 
london-boy said:
"I can confirm that we did NOT have any malfunctions, but if we did have any, and we didn't, they would be caused by the fact that the PS3 were cramped in small very hot places. But we didn't. Really."
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I didn't kill him your honor but if I did, and I didn't, I would of killed him with a gun not a knife. But I didn't kill him.

Sounds real convincing does it?
 
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