The PlayStation 4 launches to the public in 30 days, but gamers can get their hands on the next-generation console ahead of release beginning this week at retailers across the United States.

Beginning today, Sony is rolling out PS4 demo kiosks nationwide. The first batch of demo units will be available in select Sony Stores, before expanding to electronics chains like GameStop, Best Buy, Target, and Wal-Mart in the coming weeks.
A list of participating locations, which will be updated over time, is available at the special Experience PlayStation website.
Games available on the PS4 demo units include Knack, Octodad: Deadliest Catch, FIFA 14, Contrast, Super Motherload, and Pinball Arcade.
Competitor Microsoft this month launched a worldwide Xbox One tour. Xbox team members will visit over 75 countries around the world to demo the Xbox One and let fans go hands-on ahead of launch on November 22.
The PS4 launches on November 15 in North America, with a November 29 release in Europe to follow.
Discussion
sony store too far from me. i'll wait til it gets to best buy
4 weeks to go before the Xbots go back into their graves.
I CAN'T WAIT!!! : D
Yeah, I'm not going to go the Gamestop and wait in line for who knows how long. Plus the only one around here is in the mall and I can't stand going to that place.
Whoop Whoop!
The game demos they're using sound pretty generic. Other than that, it doesn't sound like a bad way to get people into PS4.
Is it just me or does the new non-lyvefire powered comment section seem weird? Are people actually commenting and it doesn't update you or what....? I hated the old system, it was lag as hell, but now I don't know whats happening.
Octodad, Fifa, and Knack - I dont even need to comment on this. Ps4 is failing all on its own. What will i do :(
This maybe look unbelivable but I am from Brazil and here Sony just announce the price of PS4 it gonna cost U$ 1800,00,
yes the price of almost 5 PS4 in US - We are so f...
This is one area where Sony has an advantage. Kinect is much harder to set up in a store than a standard console kiosk.
Gee... did anyone really think they would not be coming...
Cool but the launch lineup is unimpressive. Even I took years to buy a PS3 given its library. I mean, we didn't get Persona 5, the Silent Hills were messy, not a decent shooter (unless you import some) and few cool surprises like Demon's / Dark Souls. I have more PS2 games than PS3 ones and PS4 is not making an impression for me to buy at its launch.
Hell yeah OctoDad!
Never seen a Sony store. What in it? PSP? PS3? Phone? TV? Boom Box? Car Audio? A lot items that don't sell well. Sony is banking on the PS4 all of their other electronic divisions have been down sized. If PS4 does poorly Sony might be in trouble.
xbone has a better launch lineup but ps4 will dominated during the spring with the order.
i am very disappointed with this launch lineup. drive club delayed come on really. im not 10 so i dont want to play knack it does look great but not interested in playing it. watchdogs and crew delayed too my god why do u hate psgamers. now dont get me wrong we do have three great looking fps right now im looking at b4 the most. killzone a close second but im afraid it might play too slow plus i want to get what my friends r getting. im a bit disappointed but i do have imfamous which is awesome but i just want more.
this is sad you could have played most of these games on ps3. maybe they r hoping kids will make their parents get it for knack or octodad or maybe fifa if they really like football but uhhhh yeah what a snoozefest this lineup is where is killzone or black flag battlefield4 for give me soming to say hey look how awesome ps4 is and not well u just wait until the order comes out and yeah im not happy with this launch lineup if it werent forthird party developers i would totally freak out.
I won a PS4 from Taco Bell, but i lost my code, i really pissed right now.
Really? How many people ACTUALLY have a "SONY store" near them? This is stupid. Just like how there are barely any Microsoft stores anywhere. Put the demo units in major retailers already...
You would think with PS4 dusting ass with Xbox One MS would have been the one doing this, but damn I envy the Xbox team who would be globe trotting across 75 countries getting laid and playing Xbox
they really should put killzone shadow fall in the demos.
I'm looking forward to the PS4 big time, but this is a sad lineup of games they have for the public to Demo.. smh
OCTODAD!? I take it somebody at Sony USA wants to get fired so they can collect unemployment?? Maybe I'm remembering wrong but isn't Octodad about trying to do simple things with terrible controls?
So how many clueless casuals will play PS4 on the kiosks and decide not to purchase the console because they didn't find Octodad intriguing?
@aeok I feel bad for the huge price, but there's a reason. Brazilians never buy new consoles, why do you think PS2 was still getting Fifa games up until this year? Because it sells massive amounts on the PS2 in Brazil. PS3 will probably be getting Fifa for 10 years too.
@aeok I came here to state the same and express my feeling towards that consideration Sony has for the Brazilian fans. It's much cheaper to travel to US, spend a week or two there and then bring a PS4 with you. I hope everyone boycott PS4 here.
@deathstream Your kidding right..... Sony fanboys will call anything an advantage nowadays. #gettingdesperate
@Triton read one of the comments in the bottom, because someone thought they wouldnt do a kiosk
@ray1man2hot There launch titles many be better but the PS4's Launch window games are more appealing, XB1 does have great looking games like Titanfall, project spark, and Quantum Break (Titanfall and Project spark are both going to be on PC mind you) but out of the two the PS4 will have more of what I like.
@ray1man2hot Only time can tell that for sure.
@ray1man2hot Drive club's delay is only a rumor.
@ray1man2hot Well honestly both sides lineups are rather weak. I don't see any reason to buy either until next year.
@ray1man2hot You do understand that because BF4 and KZ:SF are rated M that retailers are not allowed to display them because of said M rating.
@Diegoctba lies i say
@Unbiased-Gamer did you not read the whole article the kiosks will be at Gamestop, Best Buy's, and Walmart in the coming weeks.
@Unbiased-Gamer There's an apple store and a ms store here, in ONE place, side by side in a mall. But sony store? Rofl. Really? That will be a massive waste of money. Sony is a hardware company plain and simple. To pull off a company store, you have to have a company personality and have an entire experience to offer.
Selling nothing but TVs, audio, playstations, and laptops will not break a profit for a store when they are all the same brand.
Cincinnati may be small compared to new york or chicago or LA but it's sure as fuck not a small area.
@Unbiased-Gamer yeah i feel you
@Unbiased-Gamer you dont go out a lot do you...
@steelmouth Yeah they're trotting across 75 countries and yet it is a pointless task considering the the XB1 is only coming out in 13 of the countries.
@steelmouth Not sure working at MS screams "sleep with me". But...k.
"Yeaaa bitch I'll treat you like I do my customers." "Take it like a Vista buyer!"
@steelmouth Meanwhile, the physical copies of PS3-exlusive new Ratchet and Clank game includes a voucher for Quest for Booty. Hmmm, seems like the MS folks are also on a quest for booty if your comment is correct.
@bluebird08 I think they won't because it's rated M. Also, what makes people interested in Killzone?
@bluebird08 Exactly! Is that to much to ask!?
@Zloth2 I love the octodad games.
@AvIdGaMeR444 since most of the launch games are rated M, I don't think they are allowed to display any demo above above Teen in the kiosks.
@AvIdGaMeR444 This is exactly what I was thinking. Great idea to add the kiosks, but horrible game lineup. Hmm, Dead Rising 3 and Ryse seem much cooler on the Xbox One Kiosk compared to Pinball Arcade, I guess I will get an Xbox One.
@freedom01 @Unbiased-Gamer there were a few around in my area, and all of them have closed. The closest one is an hour drive.
@BigBossWato @steelmouth Great point maybe they should do more cities in the 13 countries
@Unbiased-Gamer @bluebird08 The exact same thing that makes people excited for COD ghost and AC4. Because it's an overrated over-hyped game franchise that people buy just for the name and not for what they get.
Fans of killzone?
@BigBossWato @AvIdGaMeR444 Idk about that. I've seen plenty of Dead Space 3 or Rock Band or whatever other games on demo stations. But I guess they were decided by the stores.
So a demo and the games on it is how you decide which console you'll buy I really don't believe you were gonna buy a ps4 in the first place you obviously just like to complain
@kb8618 same at my place, used to have a Sony store but they closed down, and now there are none where I live (I dont live in the states)
http://store.sony.com/-cms-page.storelocator.landing