Interview: Interview: Sony's Fergal Gara on PS4's final push - ComputerAndVideoGames.com

In August Sony announced that PlayStation 4 had achieved 1 million pre-orders. Can you provide an update on how this has progressed?
What I will say is that it has continued to march ahead strongly, and there's no signs of it slowing down either. That's hugely encouraging, we know there is a huge desire out there for new consoles, and that people want a PlayStation 4.

At Gamescom the global number was over one million units, that's "over", and the number has grown substantially since then.
In August Sony put a deadline on day-one pre-order guarantees, but you're saying those beyond the deadline will still get it before Christmas?
Yes and if things keep going well we'll delight even more people on day one. We don't want to over-promise and under-deliver, we want to do the opposite.
Xbox One launches seven days before PS4 in the UK. Is that a concern?
Well, would you rather have seven days or sixteen months? [laughs] I think it's a moot point really, we're effectively launching at the same time. I don't think seven days is going to have an advantage or disadvantage.
Microsoft has said its Xbox One indie games initiative won't yield any games until early 2014 - how does this compare to the PS4's indie games at launch?
There's about twenty indie games coming to PlayStation 4 during the launch window. We're opening the doors to indie developers and I think you can already see the results of that.