On the eve of PlayStation 4's US launch there are reports from several media outlets and lucky members of the public who attended a Taco Bell event to receive early consoles are experiencing hardware failures.
Shuhei Yoshida, boss over at Sony Worldwide Studios commented the reports on Twitter:
"Be assured we are investigating reported PS4 issues. The number is very small compared to shipped, we believe they are isolated incidents."
Of course a few broken first run units are nothing strange or odd. And they seem to have broken for a wide range of issues. Kotaku writes they had issues with the HDMI port of one unit, while Reddit user Aragon who got his unit early via Taco Bell writes as follows:
"When I turn on my console it just sits there pulsing blue."
"As far as I can tell it is supposed to turn white but it isn't doing that. There is no signal on my TV either."
IGN reports something similar.
There are also reports of problems occuring during downloads - and there's a good summary on NeoGAF.
Isolated incidents or early signs of severe hardware issues? Remains to be seen.