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

[Viktor]

Conina said:

Viktor said:

@Conina

We are talking about just two months, just enough to miss the holiday season, can you please point to the significant changes? Yakuza Ishin would still have been a launch window game and looking at its release day (the same day as PS4 as far as I know) it seems its date has been influenced by the late PS4 launch anyway.

"Just two months"... that are 8 opportunities for every gaming news page on this planet to requote the Famitsu's and Media crate's hardware numbers, if the PS4 wouldn't measure up to the expectations for Japan. Everybody loves a scandal. 

I was refering to the changes in the software library in these 2 extra months due to the release in 2014 since this seems a rather popular argument. Also who knows what PS4s performance would have been like this December in Japan, at the very least it would have launched in a stronger sales period and early next year helped by it´s launch window lineup including Yakuza. Also I honestly doubt many people care about Japanese sales as much as you think. Do you really think that the current early PS4 adopters in Europe and US wouldn´t have bought one due to sales in Japan? That´s really hard to believe.

Also the opening question wasn´t about how Japanese PS4 sales could have affected "western" sales ;) /jk