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A John Lewis Christmas has no room for a Sony PS4

The Inquirer: ''John Lewis has published its top ten list of expected big selling gifts for the coming holiday season, but it does not include the Sony Playstation 4 (PS4) games console.

John Lewis' top ten list does make room for the Microsoft Xbox One games console, but does not list its Japanese rival.''

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claudionmc3852d ago

"The Xbox One is the biggest launch this year, not just in gaming, but for the entire entertainment category,"

"With launch titles such as Forza Motorsport 5 and a new Halo on the horizon..." stop reading

Destrania3852d ago

You should have stopped right at 'Xbox One'

rdgneoz33852d ago (Edited 3852d ago )

Maybe they'll (John Lewis) have their ads on the dashboard "if you let them"...

Diver3852d ago

I have no room in my common sense gaming life for John Lewis.

GamerzElite3852d ago

Who is John Lewis? and Why should I read his wishlist?

AlexanderNevermind3852d ago

I'm still scratching my head on this one as well...

malokevi3852d ago

Oh, you know, only THE John Lewis.

*puzzled look*

Cryptcuzz3852d ago

Never heard of this guy like ever.

The question should be, who or WHAT is John Lewis for not having the PS4 on his or its wish list?

Breaking news! Hunny Boo Boo's wish list is out and it does not include the Xbox One, but does include the PS4!

Head = Blown.

DOMination-3852d ago

John Lewis is a very big department store brand in the uk.

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Mr Pumblechook3852d ago

What people forget is that Microsoft pays retailers big money to be the sole mentioned item in retailers' Christmas catalogues.

Toys R Us. The Amazon.com promotion where Xbox One was advertised on the front of the website. John Lewis and many more.

DeadManIV3852d ago

Exactly MS is M$ after all

falviousuk3852d ago

And Sony is $ony after all

Both companies have an advertising strategy, but hey itsbthe Xbox so let's piss on it. If it was the other way around it would be all smiles and everything would be fine.

The hypocritical nature of the Sony fanboy

monkey6023852d ago

Falviousuk. Normaly i would tell them to take off the tin foil hat only for the fact i genuinely got a memo from my head office telling us to push microsoft over all else because they are breathing down our necks about the poor presales leading into quarter 4. I have a picture of it to show but my phine wont let me attach the image on here so ill post it up later from another machine

RIP_Weazel3852d ago

...and the sad and lonely nature of the Microsoft apologist.

monkey6023852d ago (Edited 3852d ago )

As promised here is one of the images. I couldn't post it earlier I was in work with only my phone. I have more details too but they have information I'm just not willing to post online. Had to cover a few things on this as it is
Ugh I can't use image hosting
[IMG] http://i42.tinypic.com/nl4l...

sweendog3852d ago

It could be that they have sold out of pre orders for the PS4 and realise they will still have a shed load of xbones. Why advertise PS4 when they are all sold out. My local Asda has stopped advertising PS4 pre orders on the shelves. I asked why and they said all stock coming in is pre ordered/sold out. Whenever they get more in they have a list of people on waiting lists

monkey6023852d ago

This includes current gen consoles though. So were arent just talking ps4 and xboxone

sweendog3852d ago (Edited 3852d ago )

@Monkey602

Yeah after looking at your pic again (you poster it upside down by the way) it does say microsoft consoles. Thats crazy

monkey6023852d ago

Yeah I don't know how that happened. It shows up right way round on my gallery and image upload. Like I said I'm useless at the image uploading

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3-4-53852d ago

How can something be both "Launch" & "on the horizon" at the same time ?

XB1 is the safe thing for these people to say.

They are supporting big American business, and all the BS that comes along with it.

They understand it's new and it's Microsoft so they will push it because of connections.

isa_scout3852d ago

Yeah, it's like they're forgetting GTAV and Call of Duty release this year as well...If the Xbox One beats the PS4(not happening)I will be impressed. If it's bigger than GTAV and COD I'll quite literally shit myself.

Tsar4ever013852d ago

Who the fuck is john lewis and why should I give a rats ass whether or Not if he prefers an XB1 over the PS4? All Im paying mind is to that Im getting a PS4/XB1 or shopping for family.

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doctorstrange3852d ago

Probably because they're charging more than the standard price for the PS4

vigilante_man3852d ago

What a slip up from John Lewis. The PS4 is going mental on a global scale. Still, let them advertise they way they see fit.

Microsoft have only just begun to open their bag of tricks. Expect things to get desperate and dirty...

Blackdeath_6633852d ago

honestly november can't come soon enough so we can put an end to this nonsense.

iamnsuperman3852d ago (Edited 3852d ago )

It makes sense for John Lewis to do this. John Lewis has a certain demographic (due to what it sells and how much it sells for). The Xbox One has always been advertised as the living room machine (not necessarily a hardcore/dedicated console. We all know they both do multimedia and hardcore gaming but they are being advertised differently). Compare that with the high price and John Lewis demographic it makes sense to have it high on the list. Also the 360 sold more in the UK.

I don't agree with their reasoning but I can still see it

strickers3852d ago (Edited 3852d ago )

The John Lewis consumer is likely to be older and have money. Ie more like a PS3 consumer. 360 sold to youth in UK this gen

Lovable3852d ago

In other news, Lovable will buy PS4 for Christmas. Yay.

Note: I am currently accepting interview, pm me for appointment time.

My_precious3852d ago

yeah, just wonder too, who the fvck is that guy?

kayzeemoschino3852d ago

JOHN LEWIS IS A MEGA DEPARTMENT STORE IN UNITED KINGDOM...NOT A HE OR SHE

iamnsuperman3852d ago (Edited 3852d ago )

Big, more upmarket, department store chain in the UK (google is your friend). You probably do not know Waitrose but it is on that same level of demographic (fairly expensive place to get stuff and it does have more upper market stuff compared to other department stores like Debenhams). I can't think of an America equivalent.

edit: @below Damn. That's embarrassing. :)

guitarded773852d ago (Edited 3852d ago )

It was a rhetorical. Meant to devalue the opinion of one John Lewis.

Also, I really didn't know who he was. But I did Google before posting, and maintain the point of my previous comment.

guitarded773852d ago

I would compare him to Sam Walton (founder of Wal Mart).

tigertron3852d ago

I work for their biggest rival. :P

Though it would be pretty cool if my company started selling game consoles. A PS4 with staff discount would be sweeeeet.

Mr_Skyfish3852d ago

I said the same thing in my head like who the hell is John Lewis?

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mkis0076h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows906h ago(Edited 6h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0074h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19894h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw6h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno6h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy855h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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