WW HW/SW Up 25th January 2014 (US Has A New King)

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Xevross said:

I wish we had some Preorder numbers from Japan, if the first batch offered via preorder sold out in 'a few minutes' (According to Hiroshi Kawano) are to be believed, how many were offered?  What kind of preorder stats have they seen since that first batch (Presumably they've added more bundles/consoles to it since the first 'batch'.)...  So little information to really draw a serious conclusion from.

And yeah, reserving consoles for the Asian release, from their initial runs of PS4's seems woefully daft.  So yeah I figure a percentage of weekly runs is reserved for the Asian launch.

Its wishful thinking but we may get pre-order numbers tomorrow with the quarter report from sony. I doubt it though :(. I think it weill have a lot of pre orders in Japan.

I think it's going to light up the charts in Japan, as well, I'm just curious what that amount will be.  I don't think I've ever cared this much about a console launch outside my region before (mainly because I want to see Sony back in a far more stable position financially).