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They should pair that up with an appropriate display.
Wait a minute... I'm late for golf!
On a serious note, smoke would usually indicate a failure in the power supply, but I would expect that to be a single puff of smoke before it very quickly turns itself off. Regardless, the impressively modular nature of the Series X leaves me confident that it can be repaired or replaced very easily.
Wait a minute... I'm late for golf!
On a serious note, smoke would usually indicate a failure in the power supply, but I would expect that to be a single puff of smoke before it very quickly turns itself off. Regardless, the impressively modular nature of the Series X leaves me confident that it can be repaired or replaced very easily.
You are looking to much into this. If you are talking about Twitter video then this is not standing on any platform you mentioned. Microsoft already reached to him and will replace it - they are aware of this issue and you are still claiming it's fake or prank?
Yeah, this looks fake. Way too much smoke IMHO. Or it is a very unfortunate accident/coincidence.
Honestly, if THIS becomes a real widespread issue they have problem on their hand and probably need to do a worldwide product recall. But I don't believe it.
Honestly, if THIS becomes a real widespread issue they have problem on their hand and probably need to do a worldwide product recall. But I don't believe it.
Faulty, non working products are common and not a big deal. Just get it replaced.
But, smoke coming out could cause serious health and environmental hazards. It is not a small matter.
I am referring to the video in post 1, the console is on a pallet-style platform. If you wanted to blow smoke into the console and have it come out the top, you could not choose a more suitable platform.
The console is shut down, thus it's probably not the fan. To be fair, we don't see how long the console is shutdown and maybe the fan was still doing it's thing.
Yes.
Everyone immediately calling Fake must have never seen a faulty PSU fry itself before.
Edit: here is a video of a psu getting fried.
Edit: here is a video of a psu getting fried.
Someone with Photoshop skills could do something with this, maybe replace their heads with XSXes or something.
I'm not sure how this could even happen o.O Like... Something has to have gotten into these units to produce visible smoke?
The dock does scratch the shit out of the Switch though :( I got a screen protector eventually, but not soon enough to prevent some ugly smudges on the corner of my unit.
Holes in the floor.
You can't fool me, it's holes all the way down.
Assuming it's real, looks like something catastrophic failed (money is on the PSU). I'm a little concerned about the voltage setup in one of the two videos, judging by the mess of wires dangling next to it.
But whatever - as was pointed out a hundred times in the thread about the PS5 "overheating", electronics always have a small percentage failure rate, and hundreds of thousands of consoles went out into the wild today. I wouldn't worry about it unless we start getting dozens of reports of the same problem.
Hard to say more than that, without understanding the full context of the situation.
But whatever - as was pointed out a hundred times in the thread about the PS5 "overheating", electronics always have a small percentage failure rate, and hundreds of thousands of consoles went out into the wild today. I wouldn't worry about it unless we start getting dozens of reports of the same problem.
Hard to say more than that, without understanding the full context of the situation.
Hopefully they are fake, the first one looks like they've blown e-cig smoke into the bottom knowing it will come out the top. Would like to think that with all the hands on time places like DF and reviewers had that if there was an issue it would have came to light but I suppose a couple hundred review consoles Vs millions suddenly in hands of consumers is a different situation.
If you look at the video in the op there's a short flash and hissing sound in the beginning. It's a capacitor popping, then emitting smoke. Faulty unit, send it back.
Yeah it's why i'm not sure so many are immediately calling Fake because of the amount of smoke. Like really when a PSU is faulty you should be happy if it's only smoking like crazy because there's a real chance of fire.
If the power unit is faulty, it could make that ton of smoke, just weird that it is turned off and the smoke keep going
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