Personally i am just glad there is a new generation. The graphics on this gen have been nice but they could certainly be improved.

As for games, some people keep waving the Exclusives in peoples faces as the reason why certain consoles are better than others. I am sure for some who might prefer Killzone or a Forza, thats a perfectly good reason. But i believe there are many users out there who might like 3rd party games, and want the best experience possible.

As the moment my games ordered are: AC4BF, Watch_Dogs, BF4 and Killzone. Probably pick up a couple more if i can, but for me its all about open world goodness (though KZ does look amazing). So i wouldn't discount users buying to improve the consoles they have. One guy i know is buying a PS4 (he was Xbox previously) just for AC4 alone...

I agree that Sony need to do more to promote their big games for next year (there is no room for more big games this year IMHO)... but I think VGA's might be the best place for that. The consoles will only have just launched and they might have got more consoles on the shelves for the Xmas period... why not throw in a new Naughty Dog game or SSM... that would just push a few more people to buy. But if they do that now, not sure it will be as powerful as people wont be getting their console on day 1 now if they announce anything. It's lost PR.

Those gamestop figures are interesting. Has anything changed in terms of orders on Amazon or other sites since Gamescom?

a lot of people are put off from placing pre orders for games as many stores now charge to pre order and the current economic climate is still not as secure as it was when the previous gen started, as i've seen plenty of times the big supermarkets have discounts on new games compared to game specific stores, when the 360 launched many games cost £50 yet ASDA (part of walmart in the UK) were charging less than £40 and no doubt it will be the same situation with many supermarkets offering games at lower than RRP prices which these game specific stores wont be able to do.


i still dont get how a game is considered poor due to low pre orders, all pre orders give is a rough estimate of how well the game could sell however when a game launches and it turns out to be good word of mouth soon spreads and the game starts flying off the shelf but even then is that still an indication of a good game just because its popular, many fantastic games get over shadowed by the more popular games.

There should be  PS4 - year one line up and Xb one - year one line up options.

OT: If PS4 merely launches with parity to Xb one in USA it's a massive shift back towards Sony in that market. Remember in USA Xbox360 is 1.6:1 vs PS3 Lifetime. If PS4 launches at 1.1:1 or greater vs Xb one then that's a bitchslap for MS.

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Well DriveClub is a free 2 play game and Knack is........... well it's Knack. Like your analysis.

Good find, I make that 12 XOne to 8 PS4. Also, 4 XOne exclusives (Forza, Dead Dising, TitanFall and Ryae) compared to...no PS4 exclusives, which is surprising. Maybe I am just missing Killzone on that list, but the lack of Knack is surprising after Gamescom. Maybe it has more of an effect here in Europe, though. 

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haha jk munk. You'll learn all about BenV soon. I would suggest reading all his posts since the e3 presentation. Truly some massive bombshells in there.

Gran Turismo is fine and they should be able to put that out fast with the easier to program for X86.  God of War: (insert cool Norse subtitle here) could sell well like KZ seems to be without a number as long as you make it clear that this is the MAIN team and is a REAL GoW game.  Uncharted can come later but I think LoU proved that ND is getting to be known for their name not their IP.  It's sold 3m after releasing in the Summer a couple months ago.  They could release a new IP and have it do millions with that talent.  Think Titanfall but for PS4 (not in gameplay or anything just being hyped because of the dev).  

Good to know, I hope we can get more updates in the coming months. Like if the release dates change people's minds.

I have a quick question about these numbers, Ben.

Presumably PS4 console pre-orders are tracking above XBone based on what you say in the OP.

You've listed software into categories of "winners" & "losers". Are you measuring this based on just overall numbers (i.e. basing it on a certain cutoff point); or relative to the number of pre-orders of the console?

What I suppose you've gathered I'm getting at is; are Knack & Driveclub higher than any XBone games which you considered software "winners"; or are they just the lowest overall?