There was little doubt that the
PlayStation 4 would sell well on launch given the
sheer amount of hype,
but we now have proof: Sony has
revealed that it sold over one million PS4s in North America during the console's first 24 hours of availability. While that figure pales in comparison to the sales numbers we see
for smartphones, it gets the company a long way toward its goal of
moving five million units before the end of its fiscal year in March. It also suggests that Sony won't face the same lackluster response that greeted Nintendo, which took a week to sell its
first 400,000 Wii U systems in the US. The real question is whether or not the PS4 will preserve its sales momentum -- with the
Xbox One launch just five days away, Sony won't keep the high end of the console market to itself for much longer.
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