When PlayStation 4 was revealed in New York City on February 20, it showed the very first glimpse into what’s next for Sony’s line of consoles. And a link making the rounds over the last couple of days seems to put into perspective how significant the reveal was, at least for folks on the Internet.
That link, which is YouTube’s Ads Leaderboard for February 2013, is “a collection of ads people chose to watch and share this month” on the world’s most popular video service. And the number one video, seen below, is for PlayStation 4.
Posted on February 20, the video managed to be watched 26,296,340 times in a period of only eight days, and beat its next closed competition, an ad from Samsung, by nearly five million views (and that ad was posted on February 2nd).
What does this tell us? Well, it only tells us something anecdotal: that the Internet is very, very interested in the PlayStation 4 (interest which is heavily reflected on IGN as well). It also makes us wonder just how big Microsoft’s yet-undisclosed Xbox reveal will be. Something tells me we can expect very similar numbers for that.