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Viktor on 25 December 2013
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Fusioncode said:
Viktor said:
Fusioncode said:
Viktor said:

Please, read the opening post. I´m not interested in excuses for the delay. Instead I´m asking for what affect the delay will have to the Japanese market. Because obviously the lack of competition this holiday season benefitted WiiU quite a lot and to a margin that even the more optimistic users didn´t expect. While PS4 missed the holiday season in Japan.

You asked if it was a great idea to launch the PS4 next year. We answered why it was. 


I was quite clear in my op that the question is about the Japanese console market in particular, since it´s the Japanese launch that was delayed and it´s in Japan where Sony systems are performing really bad this holiday season. In fact the holiday season surely was a big factor that helped in generating hype and sales and in regards to Japan would have helped PS4s launch-hype. Instead their decision actually helped their strongest competitor over there.

The WiiU was selling 3k per week when Sony made the decision to delay the PS4 launch in Japan. They didn't expect a big holiday boost for the WiiU in Japan. We still don't know how much WiiU will sell once the holidays are over. We also don't know how hyped Japan is for the PS4. If it's anything like Europe or NA, then they shouldn't have a problem. It doesn't matter anyways because the WiiU is going to miss out on a lot of massive Japanese games like FFXV, Kingdom Heart 3, Yakuza, MGSV, and so on. 


Ignoring WiiU. It still is a stupid idea to miss the holiday season in Japan just to push PSV with PSTV (another big mistake similar to PSPgo) and to cash-in on Gran Torismo 6 and PS3 and missing out the holiday season (PS4). Now we have the data and know that it didn´t work out, especially Gran Tourismo 6 is a big disappointment beeing easily outsold by 3D World.

These are basically the reasons for the delay, because let´s be honest for a second, they could have as easily favoured Japan instead of East-Asia, Brazil and even Saudi-Arabia. They simply were to shortsighted if they really planned this according to post WiiU bundle announcement sales, when its sales had a noticeable decline due to this very announcement.

They simply believed that Gran Tourismo 6 would have been enough to have a decent holiday season in Japan.