Anthem is Crashing PS4s and Sony is Reportedly Offering Some Players Refunds

Anthem is Crashing PS4s and Sony is Reportedly Offering Some Players Refunds

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The launch of Anthem hasn’t exactly gone according to BioWare’s plans. The game has been criticized for a lack of content and polish, but it seems the situation is particularly bad on the PS4 – according players on Reddit and other forums, the game is crashing their consoles. That is to say, the game isn’t just crashing and returning to the home menu — it’s completely shutting down people’s PS4s. Needless to say, this is a very rare thing for a console game to do. Personally, I’ve never heard of it before.

People who have reported these shutdowns say their PS4s reacted as if they’d yanked the console’s power cable out. Upon starting up again, the PS4 has to check and repair its internal database – a process that is accompanied by some stressful warnings and can take several minutes. According to Redditor TheMadTitanGuantlet this process actually bricked his console…