That ps4 Url. Either a huge coincidence or the new Sony Marketing team does a godly job.

How high was the chance for it to happen ? This is like winning the lottery. How does youtube assign those links ? Just a random string of signs ?

Are you saying most people of the Microsoft fanbase are not core gamers? ie casuals?

Let's just not get ahead of ourselves.

Things could be going better.

So, you're saying that the four hour line PRE LAUNCH at E3 2006 to play the Wii was just the Nintendo core? I understand what you're saying about the majority of potential consumers, but don't kid yourself that the Wii wasn't surrounded by positive anticipation at this point in its launch year while the Xbox One is, at this point, inarguably the opposite.

What you're not acknowledging is that it's not just forum dwellers and Youtube vloggers who are expressing their disappointment with what they've seen/heard, it's news outlets - both gaming and mainstream - and many developers as well. That could largely change after E3, but as of now the general consensus regarding Xbox One and many of its features is mostly negative.

Actually, the 4th day is when the PS4 ad went viral.  It went from ~3M views to ~14M in a single day.  Then within 4 more days it had reached ~23M-24M.

You're wrong. And I have a bit of an anecdote to demonstrate that you're wrong.

My sister's partner is what I'd describe as a regular casual gamer. What do I mean? He likes his CoD, his Fifa, his racing games. He had a 360 until it RRoD'ed, he now has a PS3. He also enjoys his pokemon. But he typically learns of new Pokemon games through me, and often learns of other games that way, too.

Anyway, I was over their place earlier today, and I was showing him stuff about Pokemon X/Y because he hadn't seen any of it yet. After that, he asked me if I'd seen the news about the new Xbox. I said yes, and he started telling me about how it won't let you play used games, etc, etc (I had to clarify for him that it does allow used games, but that they're certainly trying to discourage it with the way they've set it up). This is how your typical gamer, the regular casual type that doesn't spend time on forums but will still anticipate the release of a new console, is seeing things. And I asked if that meant that he would get a PS4 out of the two high-powered consoles, and he said yes.

The mainstream weren't going to be getting the system early, anyway - let's be honest, most of the mainstream aren't going to be shifting away from Wii, PS3 or 360 over the next year or two, while there's still financial issues and the new systems are expensive with relatively few games. It's your regular casual and your core gamers that will be buying systems early, and these are the ones that already know about the Xbox One's negatives.

So it's most certainly a PR disaster right now.

Hahaha what are the odds.

The chances of getting p, s, and 4 lined up in order in a Youtube URL on a particular video is beyond miniscule. Not only that but it's separated by a dash and is placed at the very end.

Pretty sure it's because Google hates Microsoft.