In early 2014 Sony was one of the main themes of controversy in Japan. The company with its main base in Japan announced that Japan would receive the company’s latest console three months after launch official in the West; It was of course PlayStation 4.
PS4 was officially launched in Japan a Saturday February 22, 2014, exactly two years ago. Sony justified the delay with the need to find time to prepare a lineup of local games that could serve adequately to Japanese consumers, and apologized by giving away a free copy of the popular Knack with every new PS4 purchased during the launch season.
Initial sales of the console were slow, taking into account that many of launch titles for PS4 were also available on PS3, something that did not convince the Japanese public too much. nor to the general public. Fortunately, Sony managed to develop a series of exclusive titles that gave value to its catalog with respect to the other platforms on the market; which in turn prompted other developers to release exclusive games on PS4.
Two years later the console has achieved an important boost in the current generation of platforms, which is leading it to become a complete success for Sony and its followers, who probably stay faithful to the brand. In fact, since it is already the 22nd in Japan, GetNews has shared a video of a handful of players gathered on February 22, 2014 outside one of Tokyo’s most popular stores, Yodobashi Camera in Akihabara, to get the console.
You can remember this launch event in the video below:
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