Foxconn intern claims PS4 was sabotaged during manufacturing

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According to a snapshot of a deleted forum post, interns at a Foxconn manufacturing plant in Yantai, China have deliberately sabotaged the PS4 citing working conditions at the plant.

The allegations first appeared on the IGN forums, which was locked shortly after. The author then tried to elaborate Below is a snapshot of the actual post

The intern noted that because Foxconn didn’t treat them well, they didn’t treat the PS4 well. Stating: “The ps4 console we assemble can be turned on at best.” which may explain the pulsing blue light issues that many people have experienced, mainly on Amazon shipments where about 33% of the total verified reviewers have reported the issue.

Although these claims cannot be verified, it's no secret that Foxconn has been in the news frequently for their alleged mistreatment of workers, and possibly comes as no surprise that this sort of retaliation is an easy thing for workers to carry out on the Day One release of the console.

In any case, we'll be keeping an eye out for any sort of verification on these claims as Sony investigates the issue themselves.



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MaggardoPosted:

That is why you never Manufacture anything in China, just saying!

OasisPosted:

As I said about three days ago on the PS news section...

*made in China

Yet all the little fanboys wanted to believe it was made in Japan :D hahahaha

slaughtercellPosted:

OfficialLeon
Liquidvlade True or not, still doesn't justify the software disaster. It looks like even EA called out Sony on the 1.50 firmware.


Did you also read what they wrote after they mentioned 1.50? no? of course because all you wanted was the bad out of the situation.

Did you read what EA said? They said it's Sony's fault and they have to fix it... Fix it Sony

OfficialLeonPosted:

LaserShow This may hurt china as a whole because more companies will start looking elsewhere to manufacture their products. I feel sorry for Sony then again they should have been more adamant to the treatment of the people at foxconn. "Made in China" is now going to be more of a joke for many people but in reality the poor working conditions for people should make companies penalize Foxconn.


No one is going to stop manufacturing in china. the labor and parts are super cheap in that country thats why they do it.

OfficialLeonPosted:

Liquidvlade True or not, still doesn't justify the software disaster. It looks like even EA called out Sony on the 1.50 firmware.


Did you also read what they wrote after they mentioned 1.50? no? of course because all you wanted was the bad out of the situation.

LiquidvladePosted:

True or not, still doesn't justify the software disaster. It looks like even EA called out Sony on the 1.50 firmware.

LostPosted:

I doubt that, if they weren't on good grounds why would they have them manufacture the console? Seems unlikely.

LatiasPosted:

LaserShow This may hurt china as a whole because more companies will start looking elsewhere to manufacture their products. I feel sorry for Sony then again they should have been more adamant to the treatment of the people at foxconn. "Made in China" is now going to be more of a joke for many people but in reality the poor working conditions for people should make companies penalize Foxconn.


No, they will keep manufacturing in China because the labor is so cheap.

EstablishedGamingPosted:

I **** knew it, i said its like someone is trying to sabotage the ps4!

MSXPosted:

This dont sound to good seems odd


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