PS4 to launch across Asia before Japan

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Sony has set a PlayStation 4 release date of December 2013 across Asia territories such as Hong Kong, Malaysia, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore.

It means that Japan, the spiritual home of the PlayStation business, will be the last major territory to stock the new console. The Japanese PS4 release date is February 22 next year.

While a release data for Asia territories has yet to be finalised, on Wednesday a PlayStation representative confirmed the new system would ship "December 2013".

Some launch games will be specialised for Asia. Ubisoft's Watch Dogs, for example, will come with Chinese and Korean subtitles.

In May, CVG reported that Sony had undergone a strategic review and determined Europe and the US its main priority regions, while Japan moved down the list due to the lack of competition in the region.

Xbox One will release on November 22 in 13 markets including North America, the UK and Australia. The system releases across Japan and Asia in 2014, though a final date has not been specified.

PS4 will release November 15 in the US and November 29 in Europe and Australia.

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ChatsCPosted:

To bad I'm not a big fan of the PS3/PS4 but I'm not going to hate on the PS4, I'm not going to lie the console looks good it self, but why Asia & Japan? Figured it would go by the United States or England first..

CHPPosted:

Raci
-Lamborgini
Ted- This is unfortunate for anyone living in Japan


Yeah its pretty ironic that Sony is Japanese based.


No joke man .. That is ridiculous


haha that is pretty dumb. what were they thinking

PlusnetPosted:

Ted- This is unfortunate for anyone living in Japan


Yep. They get a lot of things late it seems.

VPNPosted:

Ted- This is unfortunate for anyone living in Japan


Yeah its pretty ironic that Sony is Japanese based.

Dr-PonyfilePosted:

JTxSyChO
Da_Bomb
Alberici
Aggie I still find this ridiculous.


This is sonys downfall now like wtf


I doubt this will make a difference what so ever. The xbox is also being released in 2014 for Japan. It's not like they are gonna get tired of waiting and buy the wiiu.


My man the fact that sony is a Japanese company, and its based in Japan, its **** ridiculous, and every one said psn was consumer friendly


PSN is consumer friendly I do think it is wrong that a Japanese company won't get the console in Japan until after everybody else already has one. It is stupid.

JTxSyChOPosted:

Da_Bomb
Alberici
Aggie I still find this ridiculous.


This is sonys downfall now like wtf


I doubt this will make a difference what so ever. The xbox is also being released in 2014 for Japan. It's not like they are gonna get tired of waiting and buy the wiiu.


My man the fact that sony is a Japanese company, and its based in Japan, its **** ridiculous, and every one said psn was consumer friendly

Ted-Posted:

This is unfortunate for anyone living in Japan

Da_BombPosted:

Alberici
Aggie I still find this ridiculous.


This is sonys downfall now like wtf


I doubt this will make a difference what so ever. The xbox is also being released in 2014 for Japan. It's not like they are gonna get tired of waiting and buy the wiiu.

GossipPosted:

I ve always wondered why they got it late. Personally I think its favortism but whatever.

DissPosted:

Gmlukens Surprising, i thought that this would come out sooner there


I thought the same but apparently not. This will be one of Sony's downfalls.


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