Social Media on Gaming

Something that I have been noticing a lot of lately is the impact that social media has on gaming, and its ability to completely blow things out of proportion.  Over the last few weeks we have seen the release of two brand new next generation gaming consoles, the PS4 and the Xbox One.  Both of these consoles prior and after release have been heavily portrayed on social media by people with and without a lot of information.

As you can see above one of these issues being completely blown out of proportion is that some PS4's have shipping bricked.  These consoles don't allow for people to output video on HDMI to their TV's and the console pulsates a blue light.  The problem with all of the social media coverage is that issues like these always arrive in new technology and in some ways are unavoidable.  When social media gets wind, they take off with it and many uninformed people are pushed away from making purchases, or following a certain company all together.

Another one of these victims are the Xbox One.  On a very small distribution, some of the consoles shipped with broken disc drives.  This means that when the disc is pulled in it won't read the disk and makes a clicking noise.  This, as Microsoft said, is a very small amount of consoles affected.  Even though it is such a small number of consoles affected, it is all over social media and everyone is hearing about it, possibly pushing them away from the console all together.

I feel as if social media affects technology in a positive way sometimes but many times in a negative way.