According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, the PlayStation 4 is going to be the most popular console in the United States over the Christmas period.
1,297 people surveyed online last week and 26% said they would be buying the PS4 compared to just 15% who would be handing over cash for the Xbox One. 64% of respondents said they would not buy any new game hardware at all.
The gap widens when surveying those aged under 40 with 27% opting for Xbox One and 41% selecting the PS4, giving Sony a 14% lead over its rival.
26-year-old gamer Christopher Turner from Salem, Alabama said that Microsoft “couldn’t make up their mind and Sony hadn’t wavered from the beginning.”
The survey also polled current gaming habits with 18% playing on PS3, 20% on Xbox 360 and just 3% admitting to using a Wii-U.
Respondents were also asked which games they would buy buying and Grand Theft Auto V came out on top with Call Of Duty Ghosts in second place. Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag came third, trailed by Madden NFL 25 and Battlefield 4 in fourth and fifth places respectively.
Source: Reuters
Scythegpd
Survey =\= sales
We’ll see in the next few months how things go. One thing MS have always had going for them is an enormous marketing budget
monkeyspoon
Didn’t Sony say they would spend lots on promo.
I think Sony will take back gaming like the PS2 days.
boeboe
The glory days! If everyone stopped worrying about the graphics we’d get there easily imo. Let the devs work their magic. Still amazing what Rockstar did with the ps2 back then.
Starman
Doesn’t make a lot of sense.
64% No Console, 15% X1, 26% PS4 = 105%? And does that mean nobody is buying a Wii u or Vita etc?
yd
Adding up to 105% presumably means that 5% of the people they asked are going to buy both. Possibly. Or someone can’t count.
And those numbers for the under 40s could arguably be seen as proving the opposite. For the whole lot, the PS4 is going to sell 1.73 times as many. But for the under 40s, it’s only 1.52 times as many. So the PS4 has less of a lead with the under 40s.
But then, I’m 41 so I don’t care what the young people are up to.
Tuffcub
Yes I think people could say they were buying both. I thin the survey was only for PS4 and Xbox One, not every console.
cam the man
Michael Pachter predicts the same, so it must be true!
Fergal Gara (SCE UK) has said “the PlayStation 4 has a shot at smashing console sales records when it launches in the region this November”.
HunterGatherer
Microsoft crapping their pants, as even on home turf it’s fallen on it’s arse.
Shadow-King
hmmm…Not good for MS where they rule. Then again this survey was less than a fraction of the country, hard to say that the whole of the US feel the same.
RudeAwakening
Has GTAV been announced for the next gen consoles?