If the revenue from them went to the company that made the movie they would...but they don't. Sony and MS get money from things like accesories and games and they often make up a large amount of the profits from a console launch. As I said though, launches are meassured in units sold not revenue. Listen, you can spin this anyway you'd like. But it won't change the simple fact that once the PS4 launches in europe next week any debate about which had the bigger launch will be over.

Why all the spin anyways? What does it matter?

As much as you and i know 15th and 29th should be counted as one the general public won't

They both did fantastic and that's all that really matters. Really big numbers from both parties and if both companies had more supply then i bet the sales would have been even higher for both.

I say they're both pretty impressive. Ps4 was pretty much expected to do great numbers, and it did! And you're right about it selling more if it launched in other territories. But X1 numbers are still impressive considering the reputation MS and the x1 have built for themselves these past months. And taking into fact it's weaker and more expensive. Yes, it is still impressive numbers even though it launched in more countries.

I didn't realize the general public tracked console launches. But I bet that if they did they would fully understand the difference in 1 million sales in 13 countries and 1 million sales in 2 countries. Especially when those two countries don't include that consoles strongest market. But even though they don't track console launches, come 11/30 they will know that there are roughly 1 million Xbox Ones on the market and roughly 2 million PS4s on the market.

We should be unimpressed by both???? Regardless of what happens in the next few months, we're talking about launch days here, and I don't think any other console had manage to get these numbers on day 1.
I'm quite impressed with the PS4 numbers, but I'm especially surprised with the X1 numbers because I never thought it was going to do that well after all the hate it got.

Without a doubt great numbers for X1

More impressed on PS4..but Xbox One did quite well too..the amount of hate it was getting some people may have though it to have a weaker opening than the Xbox 360

And if MS had 3 million to sell world wide they would have sold 3 million at launch. Whats your point? At this stage in the game they are still even until supply catchs up with demand. All you have is wishfull thinking at this point. Something fanboys everywhere get when they want to see the other guy go down in flames. Personally I'm happy Sony sold a million because before E3 I was concerned they would not do very good this gen and we would be looking at the real possibility of no PS5. My concerns are put to rest. Now I  want to see the Xbox One recover because if we loose MS from the marketplace there will be no reason for Sony to step up their game next gen. Since we are all gamers, we should stop bashing each other and support Sony, MS and Nintendo. If any of these manufactures leave the market, we all loose. I feel real good about both Sony and MS now just wish Nintendo sales would start to pick up. Based on how much dust mine has been collecting I'm worried :(

John

Going by hardware revenue the 360, PS3 and Wii should be much closer together than by counting the number of units. ;)