Nobody cares. It's not like it's gonna sell there anyway.

Asia outside of Japan is not a big market for home consoles, not even close. Even if it holds about 1/3 of the world's total population, it probably nets less than 5% of the total sales of home consoles, in terms of valuable userbase, it's a truly tiny market and of no consequence in the big picture.

While the market in Asia is not all that big, it helps Sony out even more still. Weak.

Are those countries what VGchartz considers "Others" market?

And this won't hurt sales at all, right? 

Balmer is still overwhelmingly positive?

Just barely.

oh that about Siri? big deal. 

Apple's tablet and phone marketshare keeps dropping quarter by quarter, almost every time.  Guess who's taking the sales away from them??  And you're making a big deal about a part of a part of a tablet's business?  Your arguements are useless.

From the Xbox site...

Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Mexico
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Russia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Kingdom
United States

Some notable omissions.

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If that won't change, I will be happy since Poland's not included, so the chance of my friends buying PS4 is only higher. Interesting they are giving up the foothold they gained in our market, PS3 is probably around 600k right now, Xbox may be close, but it's definitely worse in the software department because of the easier pirating.

If Japan is not included in those countries, this might mean that there won't be a big push like in the case of early days of the X360. Not that I can blame them, those big investments to catter to the eastern audience most probably didn't give them much profit, if Sony launches there in 2013 with some appealing software and a 399$ price tag, PS4 would be destined to do great in Japan, even considering the shrinking home consoles market there.