Just picked up my copy in the U.K. from Tesco's at midnight. FaceTimed a mate doing the same in another Tesco's 150 miles away.
What was interesting was in both stores, the crowd waiting, aside from being all blokes, was that they were overwhelmingly PS4 owners. All where I was and around a 25/1 split where my mate was. I recall going to the same store for the GTA V launch in 2013. Things were about even from what I remember looking at copies taken off the merch display. If this is indicative of wider ownership patterns, that is a huge disparity in PS4s favour.
The takeaway for me is that what I saw speaks for itself in how the generation has gone.
The XB1X version looks superb, and those of you who invested are in for a real treat.
The Pro is going to look fine when you get it on a screen. We're not talking ZX Spectrum levels of colour clash and crappy sound in version differences!
For the average customer the base PS4 is where the bulk of sales are coming from and baseline PS4 performance on RDR2 is dead on for an aging bit of hardware running such a technical behemoth .
Right now you can get a base PS4 with RDR2 for £249 on Amazon. That's a sweet spot and in my opinion, Sony have ridden the sweet spot all generation. Not best, not worst, just right.
Sony rinsing the RDR2 marketing they paid for in the push up to Christmas will ensure another tidy holiday period.
As a side thought, if things pan out like they did with GTA V, we'll be spending a lot more time in the RDR2 world on next gen machines anyway, so nobody panic! This is just the beginning.
I'm off to see how my install is progressing!
