According to a report by Andriasang a Japanese government agency is taking a closer look at Sony's PlayStation Vita after a lot of cases of systems burning out during recharging were reported.Currently 31 cases of overheating regarding the portable is being investigated by The National Institute of Technology and Evaluation.23 of which were reported to have happened in Japan.So far there is no injury reported,However one case reported that the overheating damaged the PS Vita power cable connection slot.
The incidents were blamed on liquids or other objects in the port while the systems were charging by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan as the company was confident that this was not a hardware fault.Sony further confirmed that they will not be issuing a recall and those with damaged systems will need to pay for their own repairs.
It was further said by sony that "The cases were caused by partial short-circuit on the multi-use port of PS Vita and USB cable due to small particles or liquid attached to it. We believe this is not [a] product oriented issue. The short-circuit damaged the Multi-use port, resulting in being unable to boot the system."
The incidents were blamed on liquids or other objects in the port while the systems were charging by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan as the company was confident that this was not a hardware fault.Sony further confirmed that they will not be issuing a recall and those with damaged systems will need to pay for their own repairs.
It was further said by sony that "The cases were caused by partial short-circuit on the multi-use port of PS Vita and USB cable due to small particles or liquid attached to it. We believe this is not [a] product oriented issue. The short-circuit damaged the Multi-use port, resulting in being unable to boot the system."
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