By Carla Hodge
Well, it didn't take long. Sony announced yesterday that one million PS4s had been sold in the US and Canada in the space of a day; not bad going for a brand new piece of technology. The PS4 emerged as an early favourite in the next-gen console race, thanks to a controversial and rather unwelcome set of Xbox One announcements at E3 earlier this year. The tight DRM and seemingly always-on Kinect turned a lot of potential purchasers off (and subsequently into very, very angry people on the internet), and the lower price point of the PS4 has no doubt helped pre-orders.
Well, it didn't take long. Sony announced yesterday that one million PS4s had been sold in the US and Canada in the space of a day; not bad going for a brand new piece of technology. The PS4 emerged as an early favourite in the next-gen console race, thanks to a controversial and rather unwelcome set of Xbox One announcements at E3 earlier this year. The tight DRM and seemingly always-on Kinect turned a lot of potential purchasers off (and subsequently into very, very angry people on the internet), and the lower price point of the PS4 has no doubt helped pre-orders.
The Xbox One launch rapidly approaches, however, and with the release happening across thirteen countries simultaneously, you can guarantee that Microsoft will be playing the launch-day-units-sold numbers game with some ferocity, right before PS4 is unleashed on, well, everywhere but the US and Canada. Will PSN and Xbox Live stand up to all the new users? Well, we'll wait and see...
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