14 DAY TRIAL // Andrew House, the chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment, says that his company has carefully taken a wide variety of factors into account before deciding to launch the PlayStation 4 in Japan on February 22 of next year.
The device is now available in the United States and will arrive in Europe on November 29.
The discrepancy between release dates was attributed by many gamers to anticipated problems with supply.
Andrew House tells Game Informer that, “We paid careful attention to when we had enough confidence that we would have developed from the ground up experiences that the Japanese consumer would really respond to. That was the primary decision in pushing back the launch in Japan to a slightly later time period.”
The launch titles for the PlayStation 4 include Knack, Killzone: Shadow Fall and Resogun, all of which will probably have limited appeal to Japanese players.