Mind your fingers, gamers -- the Sony PlayStation Vita has suffered problems with overheating while charging.
More than 30 people have complained about the Vita heating up: 23 in Japan and eight in the US, Europe and Australia. That's not many in the grand scheme of things, but it is enough for Japanese consumer body the National Institute of Technology and Evaluation to investigate the complaints.
The Vita is reported to overheat while charging, with the cable burning out and changing colour. Sony blames customers getting their Vita grimy: "When the PS Vita or multi-use terminal on its USB cable have foreign matter or liquids on them and are connected for charging etc, a partial short that leads to the terminal burning out can occur."
Sony adds, "There is no defect", and will not be recalling any units.
Anyone affected by overheating can exchange their Vita, but for a fee -- so don't get liquid, food or general gunk on your charging cable, you mucky pups, or you'll have to fork out.
The Vita suffered early problems when it was launched in December last year. It sold in the hundreds of thousands in the first weekend on sale in Japan but some of those wouldn't turn on.
Still, it's a rare bit of kit that works perfectly for everyone from day one. The new iPad, iPod nano and Sony Bravia TVs have all been known to overheat to varying degrees of meltiness.
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damien2501 27 July, 2012 13:38
I'm shocked. Not by the story, by the fact that 30 people bought a Vita
anonymous 27 July, 2012 14:03
How is this newsworthy? It's particularly annoying that the article makes such a big deal of it, implying that anyone's Vita could just spontaneously combustion, when ONLY 30 units have had it happen out of over 2 MILLION in sales.
Less sensationalism, please?
Rich Trenholm 27 July, 2012 14:36
It's newsworthy because authorities deem it enough of a problem to investigate. In the interests of avoiding sensationalism I added lines like "not many in the grand scheme of things", but I had to put in the picture because it's just too funny
joebhoy 27 July, 2012 17:40
Well my vita works fine thats all i care about !!
Also this is old news mate :-P
anonymous 1 August, 2012 12:30
I take care of my vita as a newborn baby