57.1 Million PS4 Shipped by Sony as of December 2016; PlayStation Sales and Income Soar

[Xenostar]

KingofTrolls said:

Xenostar said:

You should then also keep in mind that the Japanese console market was much more vibrant for consoles in the PS2 era, we live in a Global market now. They are right sold is sold with the west having to make up a giant fall in Japanese sales these days. 

One can guess what will happen if PS4 would be Japan-only until mid 2014.

I guess Sony would stop production of the PS4 already.

So yes the very reason it launched last in Japan, but you didnt seem to make that counter point to start with that it launched 4 months later in Japan. Japan is a dying market. Same reason why Nintendo is doing a world wide release for Switch, its the only sensible thing to do these days.