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Viktor on 25 December 2013
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thismeintiel said:
Viktor said:

Some of you really have problems to remain on-topic. The topic beeing the Japanese console market and if they didn´t want to cash-in on GT6 and help PSV with PSTV, they could have simply shipped those Asia, Brazil and Saudi Arabia PS4 units to Japan instead.

Also PS4 launch lineup next year doesn´t look much better anyway, so I really don´t see any benefits You have also to consider that games like Yakuza would have helped keeping up the momentum after the launch hype started to fade.

Basically they would have the launch hype, sales momentum due to beeing December/New Year and early next year games like Yakuza would have helped to keep the system selling. And in the same time make it difficult to WiiU to pull off the sales they actually had the past two weeks.

Instead they launch in a weak period of the year and hoping that the launch hype will seal the deal.

Seems to me, it's more like you just want people to agree with you.  And if they don't, you accuse them of being off topic.  We're discussing the very topic in your OP.  If you can't handle disagreement, don't create threads .


To me it seems you just like making excuses. US sales aren´t relevent to how the 2014 launch may affect the Japanese console market. Best example beeing X360 last gen.

 

@Der Nebel

The absence of PS4 is quite obvious a bone to PSV and GT6 with Gran Tourismo beeing Sonys biggest franchise in Japan and beeing launched perfectly timed for the holiday season is quite obviously their focus this year. It didn´t work out, sure, but please don´t pretend that it wasn´t their supposed ace in the pocket in the console market this year in Japan.

Also PSVTV is a Japan exclusive so far for a reason.

The reason is quite simple, Japans traditional videogame market has shifted largely to handhelds, therefore they didn´t want to overshadow the already struggling PSV even more with the PS4. Instead they launched a new revision PSV2000 (Japan exclusive as well so far) and even developed a spin-off console named PSVTV to help it out and give it another big opportunity to change its course before the next console launches.

Or do you really think the Brazilian, Saudi Arabian and Asian market are more important? Please give me a break and stop buying every PR excuse from Sony.