Viktor said:
Didn´t know Saudi Arabia and some Asian countries are considered "the west" and that Brazil is an important console market with a high priority nowadays.
You should really read prior posts. These units could have as easily been shipped to Japan instead if they wanted, which means even with the same amount of produced consoles, but they had simply other plans (PSV2000+PSVTV in Japan).
But it´s obvious why this simple and realistic scenario gets ignored. Because until now there was the always easy excuse of more important markets and this simply doesn´t fit in the script does it?
Also the delay didn´t exactly change the software situation all that much to warrant missing the holidays did it? Because in my book the PS3 port of Yakuza would have still been in the PS4 launch-window and since TGS there haven´t been many new announcements anyway, besides other late PS3 ports from the Musou franchise.
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Oh my god, do you really not grasp this situation? What in your opinion is better?
Releasing your console in several smaller markets where your biggest competitor still has a chance to make an impact, which means releasing there early can give you a big advantage and where you can make smaller shipments which are guaranteed to sell out since people are not only hyped for the system, but also care for its launch games?
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Releasing in one country where your biggest competitor is not going to make a difference anyway, where you'd need way bigger shipments and would quite possibly not sell out since nobody in that country gives a rats ass about your launch software?
If the february lineup is great for japan is a matter of opinion, but Yakuza, Dynasty Warriors and the FFXIV beta are definitely better than nothing.
Also the Wii U and the PS4 aren't even competing for the same audience, the games releasing on those system are very different from each other, so if the Wii U were to take sales from the PS4 then that'd be because of a shift in gaming taste in japan and not because the PS4 is missing this holiday.
