Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, Disgaea 5, SFV (Semi-exclusive and eventually a good game), Ratchet and Clank, The Last Guardian. Not to mention all the little niche Japanese titles that will never hit the XB1. What does MS have to compete with this?

Finally! don't know if I'll buy the LE PS4 bundle but I'll definitely get this game release day

It is, the highest that a SKU in the franchise has ever sold was 570K which was half a decade ago ... 

It's hard to find a Disgaea game on shelves though. If they printed more copies it might do better.

Okay did it, i live a 2 min walk from s video game store, i pre ordered the collector's with the drake figure.

My Crazy Fanboy Theory

There's been a lot of head scratching over the unusually long 2-month gap between the game going Gold and being released. The party line from ND is that they need that extra time to make sure they print enough copies of the game (really?? 2 months?) So put on your tin foil hats folks, 'cause here comes my totally unfounded, not-a-shred-of-evidence fanboy theory to explain the delay.

What if ND's big surprise is that with the extra development time, plus Sony's recent unlocking of the 7th APU core, they've managed to squeeze out an unlocked 60fps mode for the single-player campaign? (Stay with me here). BUT, that performance increase also requires some secret sauce under the hood in the form of Firmware 3.5 (which as we know is coming soon).

SO....what if this 2-month gap between going gold and release ISN'T really lead time to manufacture enough stock but rather just ND needing to wait for Firmware 3.5?

Huh?..Huh?? Ya get me??? (you can take off the tin foil hats now)

EDIT: Sorry for the double post

I'm quite ready for another adventure with Nate.

This game is going to be massive. I have no intention of getting it yet can't help but feel excited!

ratchet426 said: My Crazy Fanboy Theory There's been a lot of head scratching over the unusually long 2-month gap between the game going Gold and being released. The party line from ND is that they need that extra time to make sure they print enough copies of the game (really?? 2 months?) So put on your tin foil hats folks, 'cause here comes my totally unfounded, not-a-shred-of-evidence fanboy theory to explain the delay. What if ND's big surprise is that with the extra development time, plus Sony's recent unlocking of the 7th APU core, they've managed to squeeze out an unlocked 60fps mode for the single-player campaign? (Stay with me here). BUT, that performance increase also requires some secret sauce under the hood in the form of Firmware 3.5 (which as we know is coming soon). SO....what if this 2-month gap between going gold and release ISN'T really lead time to manufacture enough stock but rather just ND needing to wait for Firmware 3.5? Huh?..Huh?? Ya get me??? (you can take off the tin foil hats now)

Thats a lot of tin foil.....

But one thing that is interesting is the fact that they are gold so early, especially as they have delayed the game two extra weeks. Normally you need 4 weeks to final submit/approval, manufacture and distribute/release. So a may release date is an extremely long time for a game to be gold and to go to release, so something is weird (unless they had problems with the manufacturing, which is unlikely).

So we are still looking at the original April launch date if it went gold today. Suppose they have an extra 4 weeks of polish/day 1 patch.