Sony Japan and Asia President Hiroshi Kawano has made mention to Japanese games magazine Famitsu that PS4 preorders are “very strong” in Japan, and production of the console has been enhanced to meet demand. He also said that anyone who preorders before the year’s out will get the console on day one when it launches early next, and stressed that, while ... Read More »
While PS4 remains the most preordered next-gen console in the U.S. and the rest of the world, Xbox One has been slowly gaining ground, with the results culminating this month, as the console sold (via preorders) 50,000 more units that PS4 for the past week. Read More »
At GamesCom 2013, Sony announced that it had garnered 1 million PS4 preorders since E3 in June 2013, and also mentioned that the numbers were continuously climbing. But since then, when asked for new numbers by different outlets multiple times, Sony refused to give one. Why? We don’t know, but Wedbush Morgan securities analyst, Michael Pachter, apparently knows how many ... Read More »
Sony’s been riding a wave of success like we haven’t seen since the PS2 days — and this one seems to be even greater, with “millions” of preorders for the console, and demand that’s hard to keep up with, yet Sony Computer Entertainment CEO and President Jack Tretton, has told Fox News that they’re holding back some stock for launch, ... Read More »
Jack Tretton holds nothing back as he’s interviewed by a bubbly Fox News journalist at Sony’s new PlayStation Headquarters located in Silicon Valley. A must watch. Read More »
Interest in PS4 at GameStop, the world’s biggest games retailer, is outpacing Xbox One by a 2:1 margin, vindicating Sony’s consistency on message as the consoles get closer to launch. Read More »
PS4 preorders are hustling off retail outlets as millions of gamers secure their day one purchases, and UK gamers who want to get their hands on the console exactly when it launches are being warned to preorder before August 5th, as retail sources close to CVG have told the site that Sony intends to halt day one preordering on the ... Read More »
In its first-quarter earnings for the 2014 fiscal year released today, EA COO Peter Moore revealed that Sony and Microsoft were seeing high interest in their new consoles, with a majority of gamers actually being aware of the incoming systems. Read More »
PS4 has been very well received by the media and gamers alike, as Sony has sort to, and accomplished, the goal of painting the console as one that’s friendly to the gamer and built as a games machine first. And alas, everything Sony has shown proves that to be true — even down to the specs, with Fergal Gara, VP and ... Read More »
Even after Microsoft banished its DRM plans for Xbox One, Sony’s PS4 is still ruling GameStop’s bestsellers chart following its overwhelmingly positive E3 press conference. Read More »
Amazon has revealed that 2,500 people were preordering PS4 and Xbox One units per minute last week, a new record for the mega online retailer. Read More »
Wow, if this is not a sign of things to come then I don’t know what is. Amazon UK preorders for PS4 and Xbox One are heavily lopsided in Sony’s latest console’s favor, with PS4 coming in as the fourth bestselling games item in 2013, while Xbox One lags miles back at 70. Read More »
All of last week and over the weekend, Sony’s new console, the PS4, has been dominating positive mind share and has taken over the sales charts of Amazon and leads by high margins over its competitor at retailers like GameStop. It’s a result of the ruckus and successful press conference Sony held at E3 for the console, where it announced ... Read More »
Early preorder data from major U.S. retailers show PlayStation 4 outpacing Xbox One approximately three PS4 Units for every two Xbox One consoles during the period between Monday June 10th to Wednesday June 12th. It’s early data, to be sure, but this is a sign that Sony’s message resonated more with consumers than that of Microsoft’s Xbox One. Read More »
Demand for PlayStation 4 is exceeding what Sony expected it to be according to a report on the Wall Street Journal, prompting the gargantuan company to raise internal sales estimates for the upcoming console, projected to be launched in October/November of this year. Read More »
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