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When gamers will be able to get their hands on the PS4 and Xbox One has been a hot topic since E3, when Sony said “this holiday” for a general PS4 release date and Microsoft said “November” for the Xbox One release date.

During the hubbub of E3, we reported the PS4 release date You must login or register to view this content., based on a press release that EA sent out for Need for Speed Rivals. However, looking at revised pre-order data from Amazon, Sony’s next console may in fact ship well earlier than anyone expected.


Over the weekend, the You must login or register to view this content. was moved to a date well in advance of Nov. 19, which was the PS4 release date we’d originally speculated on from EA. You must login or register to view this content., for instance, is shown on Amazon as releasing on Nov. 5. Meanwhile, You must login or register to view this content., is shown with a PS4 release date even earlier, on Oct. 29.


Traditionally, game publishers and hardware manufacturers list the last day of a month as the item’s release date so consumers have a general idea of when the game or console may release. In Sony’s case, if you search for any first-party PS4 games or hardware bundles, you’ll see “December 31″ listed, which clearly keeps Sony from tipping their hand about the PS4 release date. Microsoft, meanwhile, has the Xbox One release date as November 27, which is the day before Thanksgiving and thus puts the Xbox One releasing just in time for Black Friday sales.


In the case of the Xbox One release date, the day before Thanksgiving could be a possibility, although it’s likely that Microsoft would want to get more of a jump on retail sales. This could hold particularly true considering You must login or register to view this content. at Amazon but haven’t yet neared Sony in overall volume. In addition, Sony currently has You must login or register to view this content. currently available for pre-order, as well as a stand-alone PS4 console, while Microsoft has only offered a single option — the You must login or register to view this content. (which is still available at Amazon).


If the PS4 release date is in fact October 29, as the Amazon update implies, Sony could end up with a one-month lead time on retail sales compared to the Xbox One. This, combined with the PS4′s pre-order results so far, could make for a much different launch than the PS3, whose price caused some gamers to think twice before heading for their local retailer.


A late-October launch would also fly in the face of the “December 31″ PS4 release date shown on almost all other PS4-related games and accessories, although that New-Years-Eve placeholder has never fooled anyone. If Sony or Microsoft were to miss the Black Friday shopping blitz, sales of their next-gen console would face a significant uphill battle. Obviously an Oct. 29 date would be music to many PS4 gamers’ ears, but so would the Nov. 5 date shown for Call of Duty: Ghosts. Considering Sony has told retailers to expect You must login or register to view this content. for pre-orders, the supply chain gods may in fact be smiling on an earlier PS4 release date than anticipated. Here’s hoping Microsoft follows suit with the Xbox One and extends the holiday gaming season for everyone, regardless of the console they choose to buy.

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yea remember i mad a post eailer mentioning the release date 4 a ps4 game at october 31?

Awww just tell us already! Does the release date really need to be kept quiet?

All it does is makes people want it even more... oh.. wait..

If it is going to be released on October, it will be insane. They've done a good move not giving an specific date as they can release it in October or in November near the date of X1. Well played, Sony.
I hope it can be soon enough, and be announced, so I can sell my PS3s right on time to get a little more money to purchase more games.

ive been saying this since they announced a holiday release, i really do think they will release the last week of Oct to the first week of November. it would give them a jump and they would be the first out of the gate this gen. all they keep saying is holiday.... i think they are doing this to try and throw MS off and probably wont release a specific date until MS announces an actual date for release. they might even be waiting for Eurogamer Expo and drop the date on us during their presentation. man im so excited to finally get a new console for gaming, i feel like a kid waiting for Christmas

fingers crossed for october release..

Isn't the release date always the same? i could recall the dates for the PS2 and PS3 both having the same week release dates of there pertaining years

Woah, that's totally wrong about the ps2 and the ps3 being released in the same week dates of their pertaining years. Ps2 was released in North America October 26, 2000 Ps3 was released in North America November 11, 2006

I am sure Sony will do it's best to beat off Microsoft yet again on the release date.