Japan - Was it really that great of an idea to delay PS4s to 2014?

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Viktor said:

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.

No they simply realised that they have no software for a japanese launch and thus made the smart decision to allocate their consoles to regions where people are buying the PS4 with the games it has. In Japan the console would've made no impact with the launch software it has. Japanese developers are still making alot of games for the PS4 that won't come to the Wii U, so missing out on this holiday season shouldn't matter.