Analyst David Gibson from Macquarie Equities reports that the PlayStation 3 experienced some overheating during the Tokyo Game Show event.
“While the reason for this is unknown, we suspect it may be due to overheating as a result of enclosing the units and the high temperatures at the venue. We are concerned that such a problem has occurred so close to full production and is clearly negative news for the company.”
It’s perfectly understandable that consoles (and general hardware) will overheat if there is poor ventilation, which is common during trade shows. Sony responded by saying “for a normal player at home, there shouldn’t be any problem.”, but apparently the analysts didn’t quite get it; the Sony share dropped 2.75% today.
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13 Responses
Anuban
October 4th, 2006 at 2:55 am
1Is no console safe from OH? Oh yeah … the Wii definitely won’t overheat since it isn’t using any extreme technology.
Lemond
October 4th, 2006 at 5:02 am
2Well that’s to be expected. Add the air conditioning that will have to be blowing directly on the PS3 to the cost of the console.
Kaiser Soze
October 4th, 2006 at 11:04 am
3I dig the picture. That one definately ain’t gonna last 10 years
STD
October 4th, 2006 at 4:43 pm
4Lets hope the warranty and problems will be handled better than what Microsoft did with the 360. It cant be worse than all the faulty 360 but hey these are the same guys who made “Disk Read Error” so fucking annoying. That made me turn in 2 PS2s and on my third right now.
dominant
October 4th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
5yeah i know what you mean about the faulty 360’s… my first one overheated all the time and i actually found out that one of the fan’s wasn’t working. my new one is working fine tho.
Emerald
October 4th, 2006 at 11:21 pm
6My 360 didn’t overheat, but my friend’s did get the GSoD.
Microsoft replaced it, though. ^_^
Anuban
October 5th, 2006 at 12:28 am
7Meanwhile Jobs admits to knowing about Backdated Options and prices of Apple’s shares rise even more. Go figure.
Shaka
October 5th, 2006 at 2:17 am
8There is KNOW RESAON AT ALL to be worried about the ps3 hardware. It would cost 299.99 and 399.99 if the hardware were “cheap.” We will be paying a premium price for a premium product. And we ALL know that sony’s tech support is the sh** if something does go wrong.
Taylor2k
October 5th, 2006 at 2:28 am
9Sonys console overheating? .. where have i heard that before .. oh yeah ps2 .. but at least this time they finding the problems before its released .. there is a good side to it
Fronz
October 7th, 2006 at 4:49 am
10My 360 overheated and died as well, but I have to admit - Microsoft handled it all very well, and replaced it quickly. The whole ordeal was pretty easy actually.
Doom
October 10th, 2006 at 10:51 am
11Sony rulz
Taylor2k
October 15th, 2006 at 1:04 am
12Yeah what doom said
Sony Rules:
1.overexaggerated
2.overcharge
3.overheat
RT
February 16th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
13Sony is not doing a thing but charging additional money for a problem that they new existed. I am very dissatisfied with Sony.
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