At the moment this all seems rather unlikely, but rumours are suggesting that the PS4 release date in Europe could now be the 22nd of November instead of the 29th. Obviously, this is a big change, but could just mean Sony have shipped the consoles earlier than expected.
A translated statement on the Italian website COplanet states:
A user of our forum has just received the call that GameStop has confirmed that the PlayStation 4 in Bundle with Killzone preordered by him will be available from November 22 and if you want to bring the games used for the promotion, thus anticipating a week of the date official launch date.
It’s likely that this just means that the customer can trade in their games a week before the launch, but GameStop apparently confirming that the console will be available on November 22nd suggests otherwise.
This would mean that the PS4 and Xbox One would release on the same day in European territories, going directly head-to-head, which would be brilliant to see.
We’ve contacted Sony and Amazon and are awaiting response.
UPDATE: Amazon have responded, stating that they do not comment on rumours or speculative news, but that PS4 orders are still planned for release on November 29th.
UPDATE 2: Adding more fuel to the fire, a poster over on Reddit has posted a screenshot of his ASDA UK order, which shows that the PS4 will release on November 22nd. Although, this could be someone posting an Xbox One order and trying to trick people.
The poster has since shared a new image, which shows that it is indeed a PS4 pre-order at ASDA.
UPDATE 3: ShopTo have described this rumour as “nonsense”, and a post on the PlayStation Blog still states November 29th as the release date, so I think this rumour can be considered false.
@debussie It’s nonsense.
— ShopTo (@shoptonet) November 8, 2013
UPDATE 4: Well, we’ve had word that this is not something Sony’s UK team is aware of. That seems fairly solid evidence for it being a false rumour. Still, it gave us all a bit of a thrill on a dreary Friday, didn’t it? I’ll go back to staring at my calendar now.
Gaztee
Noticed tonight that the tesco ad for AC4:BF has the PS4 version release date as 22/11!
SLUMMO316
No chance at all. My uncles cousins sisters baby sitter who knows someone who works in a Sony shop said they only have 26 ps4’s ready to ship and he has a account on neo gaf so it’s totally true
billsgymsock
Gutted, but I know I am just being impatient.
RandomDH
I’ve got 12 days off work from the 28th. It would be awesome if it was released on the 22nd, but then I’d have to wait for 6 days for a day off, potentially causing my girlfriend to leave me.