Video Game News: Don't Believe Everything You Read. Especially This.

So the PS4 had a pretty successful launch, with over one million units sold in North America alone on the first day.

Times it by two or three and that's how many are going to go out in Japan or Europe in the following two weeks.

Even Microsoft gave Sony a stiff nod with their message, congratulating them.

Here's the image, doctored by 4Chan to make fun of the red line of death and the fact that the console wobbles slightly.

Goofballs, all of you.

And there have been generally favourable reviews outside of Amazon.com.

Over 1,000 5 * reviews on Amazon.

But then you notice 550 1 * reviews.

I've been skimming through the reviews and they all seem to more-or-less say that the console was DOA and wouldn't function at all when plugged in.

Are all these reviews legitimate? Probably not. There are going to be a couple of people simply decrying Sony. Are they all fake? Well judging by the 340 people that have backed the most unfavourable review of the console on the site, it would seem escapist to do so. There's clearly something there.

Generally, there is an estimated 0.4% of consoles that will brick up. I think of it as 0.5% because it's easier to mention in conversation that one in every one thousand PS4's won't work because it makes me sound less like someone who wears taped-up glasses, lives with his mother, hates everything, spends all day discussing console specs and has chronic asthma.

Obviously I do not want to sound like that.

I do not have asthma and my vision is perfect.

So there's this 0.4% figure being thrown around but yet around 40% of people are reporting broken consoles on Amazon. Doesn't really add up, does it?

I don't know what to believe. There's literally no way to discern what the truth is, given the fact that you do not need to have a Playstation 4 in order to make a review of the machine on Amazon.com.

There are other interesting pieces of information, such as the failure of both Kotaku and IGN's Playstation Quatro's. (However, they did have more than one and some worked fine.)

All in all though, there's no way to tell whether there are serious design faults until it launches worldwide late in the month.

Until then, just avoid the debate. Because all the information is conflicted. Best not to get involved until the dust settles down and we can see the machine in action, hear about returns that have happened locally and problems friends are having.

Then get the console when it seems the sensible option to you, hopefully at a cheaper price with a larger launch library.