Xbox One Vs. PS4: Microsoft To Outsell Sony? UK Retailers Expects Xbox One To Outsell Playstation 4

United Kingdom retailer John Lewis is expecting greater interest in the Xbox One than the PlayStation 4 this holiday season and head technology buyer for the department store chain Jonathan Marsh told TrustedReviews that Microsoft has the advantage and its console will outsell the PS4, GameSpot.com reports.

"We are expecting more interest in the Xbox One," Marsh told the website. "We are stocking both the PS4 and the Xbox One, but if we were to back one, we are thinking that Xbox One will appeal a bit more to our customers in terms of the experience it creates."

"If we had to edge one I would favor the Xbox One," he added.

But market research group IDC predicts that gamers are more likely to purchase a Playstation 4 than an Xbox One this

"The differences between traditional game consoles, PCs connected to HDTV's, and a variety of set-top-boxes and smart TVs that can play games will eventually be semantic," said IDC Gaming Research Manager Lewis Ward in a press release.

"And it appears unlikely that Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony will be driven out of the living room from a gaming perspective by 2017 as result of non-console competition from the likes of Valve/Steam, OUYA, cable/telecom companies, or related hardware and Web service providers."

Xbox One's external HDD support will not be ready on the console's November 22 launch date, GameSpot reports, leaving gamers wondering if Microsoft is not ready for its one-week head start over Sony's own next-generation console release.

"The future plan for Xbox One is definitely to support external storage, much like we do on theXbox 360. My understanding is that the feature will not be there at launch because the team is working on some other things, but it definitely is on the list. I don't know when it will come in, though," Host Larry Hryb mentioned during a question and answer session at PAX, the Latin Times reports.