{"id":51706,"date":"2020-10-11T18:02:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/?p=51706"},"modified":"2020-10-12T16:01:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:01:07","slug":"the-playstation-5-leads-the-pre-orders-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeek.games\/2020\/10\/11\/the-playstation-5-leads-the-pre-orders-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The PlayStation 5 Leads The Pre-Orders In The United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

A survey says that if we compare the PlayStation 5<\/strong><\/em> with the Xbox Series<\/strong><\/em> duo, the console already has some advantage in the pre-orders.<\/p>\n

According to VGM<\/a><\/span>, a market analyst company, Sony’s console has a bigger pre-order base. The survey was conducted between September 23 and September 25, and 511 US-based respondents participated, representing the United States’ gaming population. (That number feels small. Couldn’t they get more people involved?)<\/p>\n

15% of the respondents managed to successfully pre-order a next-generation console (so about 82 people… we told you!), and 72% of this group pre-ordered the PlayStation 5 Standard Edition<\/strong><\/em> (the one that has the Blu-ray drive in it), followed by the Xbox Series X<\/strong><\/em> (30%), the PlayStation 5 Digital Edition<\/strong><\/em> (10%), and the Xbox Series S<\/strong><\/em> (8%). Adding the numbers, you can see that a few of them have pre-ordered more than one console. 29% of the respondents were trying to pre-order a console but had no luck in doing so. Amongst them, the ratio looks like this: 58% PlayStation 5 Standard Edition, 40% Xbox Series X, 21% PlayStation 5 Digital Edition, 11% Xbox Series S. The sample was divided into three categories (casual, mid-core, and hardcore – 28% of the latter pre-ordered a next-gen console, and 42% had no luck with it).<\/p>\n

Those who either got a pre-order in or are planning to get a PlayStation 5 by the end of the year, got asked what games they are interested in. The top three are Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales<\/strong> <\/em>(52%), God of War: Ragnarok<\/em><\/strong> (42%), and Final Fantasy XVI<\/strong><\/em> (32%). Over at the Xbox side, we have Halo Infinite<\/strong><\/em> (45%), Fable<\/strong><\/em> (26%) and Forza Motorsport 8<\/strong> (24%). The non-exclusive games only got two titles named: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (45% – no surprises here), and Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla (31%).<\/p>\n

45% of the respondents lean towards the PlayStation 5 because of the exclusive titles, while 42% would go for one of the new Xbox models because of the subscription services (such as Game Pass, or the xCloud shortly). And 63% of them don’t even know about Microsoft acquiring Zenimax (with which they got Bethesda and everything belonging to them).<\/p>\n

If only they asked more people.<\/p>\n

Source: Gamesindustry<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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