PlayStation 4 Release Date, Pre-Order, Price & Games: Third-Party Developers Deny Rumors That PS4 Overheats
According to developers, rumors that Sony's PlayStation 4 overheats are untrue.
Rumors have been circulating that Sony's newest video game console, the PS4, overheats. As a result, the rumor claims that journalists have yet to receive PS4s that they were to review before its Nov. 15 release.
DualShockers decided to investigate.
"... I set out to ask those that have the best chance to actually know about possible problems: developers that have been working on the console for quite a while now," a blog post by DualShocker's Giuseppe Nelva said.
DualShockers had some trouble finding developers that were willing to talk about the PS4's overheating issue. Digital Extreme developer Meridith Braun, however, was willing to speak. According to the Warframe developer, PS4 dev kits that her studio received "worked as intended." When asked if the PS4 dev kits never overheated, Braun responded with "Correct."
Meanwhile, Yousuj Mapara, Switchblade Monkeys creative director, had more to say.
"We've been using a bunch of dev kits," the Secret Ponchos developer said. "They've been on almost all the time, sometimes even overnight. They've always stayed cool, never even gotten warm. So it has never suggested the threat of a problem. We have had no problems with any of the dev kits throughout development."
The blog said that seven other developers agreed but did not want their names published:
"As far as I know, the specs and cooling of the current dev kits are the same as the final retail consoles, and I never saw one getting any hotter than a PS3 or a Xbox 360. Our consoles never had problems of that sort, and if you're talking about that picture with the red line, I never saw something like that."
"None of our dev kits, either PS4 or Xbox One, had any overheating problems. We have so many, and we use them so much that if there was any big issue we'd have probably noticed something, but no, they all worked and still work like a charm."
" ... We've been using test and dev kits for a while. No overheating issues. We run them for full business hours and beyond. Granted, they aren't identical to what will be released, so really anyone claiming to have an issue is either fabricating it, or it would be something I'd expect resolved in the final model. No issues on our end that I've seen."
"There's no such thing as a new console launch without a number of faulty units, but none of the development kits we have suffered from any problem related to heat."
So stay cool, everyone; your PS4 will do the same.