For reference, Foxconn is a Taiwanese manufacturer that creates games consoles, handhelds and smartphones--it's made Sony's PlayStation consoles and is currently making the PS4 Neo and Nintendo's...
Foxconn intern students have allegedly sabotaged the PlayStation 4 during its manufacturing stage in the Foxconn plant in Yantai, China. A forum post by qbroid on IGN provides claims made by an apparent Foxconn intern on the 28th of August, describing the reasons as to why he claims to have damaged the PlayStation 4 consoles.
Sony has responded to allegations that unpaid interns were being forced to help build the PlayStation 4 in Foxconn factories. Previous reports claiming that Chinese students were being forced to ...
Notable products manufactured by Foxconn include the BlackBerry, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, all Nintendo gaming systems since the GameCube (except subsequent Nintendo DS models), Nokia devices, Sony devices (including the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 gaming consoles), Google Pixel devices, Xiaomi devices, every successor to Microsoft's first Xbox console, and several CPU sockets, including the TR4 CPU socket on some motherboards. As of 2012, Foxconn factories manufactured an estimated 40 ...
Foxconn Interns Reportedly Forced To Package PlayStation 4 Consoles To Graduate Sony plans to investigate the situation in more depth.
According to the “Landlord”, around 98% of PlayStation 4 units being produced by Foxconn are made at the Yantai plant.
Foxconn has enlisted the help of engineering students at the Xi’an Institute of Technology in China to keep up with PS4 production demand.
