PS4. Sells 1 million breaks record

system launched, when it was telling everyone it'd presold over a million PlayStation 4 units, so this just makes it official: Sony says the PS4 sold 1 million units during its first 24 hours on sale, starting from midnight Friday, Nov. 15.


I'm not sure if that's a record, because I'm not really up on game-console-launch records. When I spoke with Sony's Jack Tretton on Wednesday morning, he was sure the system wouldn't so much break as shatter launch-sales figures, and if this Wikia's NPD launch figures are accurate — that the next biggest record setters were the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS, each at half a million units sold during their respective launch weeks — he'd be correct, though why Sony isn't saying as much in its press release is anyone's guess.

The PS4 has so far only launched in North America, which has a smaller video-game population than Europe, so the fireworks may just be starting. The PS4 rolls out in Europe (including the U.K.), Australia and Brazil on Nov. 29, followed by at least 10 more countries by year's end. Interestingly, Sony won't launch the PS4 in Japan until February 2014, a stark reversal from prior launches: the PS3 launched in Japan and the U.S. at nearly the same time, while the original PlayStation launched in Japan nine months before seeing light of day Stateside.

X-Box one comes out November 22 midnight ...watch out for the rivals