News: PS4 pre-orders surge following E3 conference

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News: PS4 pre-orders surge following E3 conference

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News: PS4 pre-orders surge following E3 conference news

Discussing the reaction to Sony’s conference with us this morning, which confirmed that PS4 would launch in the UK in time for Christmas, Gara said that “the most important thing is that we’re out sufficiently in advance of Christmas to allow us to deliver considerable sales.

“Something we take great encouragement in this morning is that we saw a real surge in pre-orders overnight, which is another metric that the news went down well.”

Gara chose not to confirm whether Sony intends to release PS4 before Microsoft’s Xbox One goes on sale this November,...