i know youre trolling however i wish what youre saying was true cuz i cant pre-order a ps4.

target is reopening preorders soon

Just because he spouted a sentence or two doesn't mean he didn't avoid the topic. He hastily changed the subject onto games and sounded very defensive, that was an evasion.

Why is it highly unlikely? Sony said a million+ seems to me we don't have evidence either way. Both are sold out at retailers but most are believing Sony because why exactly? 

Sony said in Aug (2 months ago) that they had over a million pre-orders and before they announced a release date. This guys story is that he knew MS had just as many pre-orders even though MS had JUST reversed X1 policies due to extremely low pre-orders. If MS had anything close to Sony's then they wouldn't have reversed it.

Which is why, like I said, I did not use those as sole evidence. Only that they are sold out and Sony would certainly not have given them low allocations considering which countries they are. I used those as lesser types of evidence. Something to not take highly considering that numbers are not available but definitely not something to overlook just because those numbers are not available. What if Sony provided them just as many units? Prior to the announcement that those countries were sold out of PS4's for 2013, the Amazon websites for both nations were showing the same thing they are today. That the PS4 was outselling the X1 and by a good margin. Again, France and Germany are both a big deal when it comes to game sales in Europe. Japan is a big deal as well. All three countries are sold out at this point and it's becoming more difficult to find PS4's in North America. At some point you have to concede that if nations that are a major factor in a console war are selling out it becomes increasingly silly to downplay it by saying we don't know what the numbers are. Because if you believe Sony was not going to come close to matching allocations in the major regions because they wanted to be available to a broader market at launch you're only kidding yourself. If you also believe that Microsoft only launching in 13 countries from the start was a purely strategic marketing move and not because of production issues, you're kidding yourself even more.

The problem simply is: Why would an anonymous developer do the pr work for MS? NDAs work in both ways. Developers cannot openly talk about what they saw inside MS, neither can MS spill internal data to a (random?) developer. A dew days ago there was much talk on another forum where an MS pr guy asked about "what resolutions/frame rates are games" and got more or less ridiculed for asking. Even if the guy worked next door to the MS department that keeps track of all their software, they would not be allowed to tell him that. So there is almost zero probability any developer knows about MS internal preorder numbers.

Let's not forget there also is an internal problem within MS themselves.:The shareholder group who essentially wants to sell the games group. If MS gets outperformed by Sony on its home turfs (NA and GB), their game group ccould be toast. Hence the reason why MS absolutely shifts their majority of boxes into these two areas and forgets about the rest of the world. I don't think the total number of consoles both companies throw into the ring are significantly different, they probably started mass manufacturing within 1-3 weeks of each other.

Yea I believe that pre-order numbers are very similar to the PS4. Like this gen next gen sales between Microsofts Xbox and Sony's Playstation will be very similar.

On a gaming console...