PS4 Overheating Issues Are Fake?

Developers say PS4 overheating issues are fake – Rumour
Authored by Patrick Day-Childs
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After a bunch of rumours flying around that the PlayStation 4 overheats, DualShockers have contacted a bunch of developers to get to the bottom of it, and apparently, it’s not true. The PlayStation 4 works fine. We’ve tagged this as a rumour, not because we think DualShockers are a bad source, but because some of the developers are uncredited.

We recently said that Angry Gamer from GameTrailers had heard rumours of the overheating too.

Switchblade Monkeys Creative Director Yousuf Mapara working on Secret Ponchos, said:

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   “We’ve been using a bunch of dev kits. They’ve been on almost all the time, sometimes even over night. 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.”

They also got another three quotes:

Here’s one developer who’s working on an AAA multiplatform title:

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   “None of our devkits, 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.”

One of the developers tries to avoid getting into the whole debate, but still touched on it a little:

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   “We don’t really like getting in the middle of console war stuff /rumors so we’d rather not be credited for a quote, but this makes me giggle. 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.”

The last quote suggests that some may, but none that they have had:

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   “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, rejoice if you’re grabbing a PlayStation 4! Although maybe we should keep ourselves reserved until after the launch.