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Sony May Release PS4 In Late December In Asia Pacific And Japan

Having announced its PlayStation 4 (PS4) will be released in North Ameirca on November 15 and in Europe on November 29, Sony is expected to introduce the games console in Japan and Asia Pacific countries in late December, sources from channel retailers have speculated.

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Rikitatsu3897d ago

Just in time for Christmas, makes sense.

...Unless Sony is having supply issues, I can see them pushing the JPN release to Q1 2014.

GreatGamePlay3897d ago

Japan could get them in 15 November. PS4 manufactured Japan.

http://media.psu.com/media/...

MasterCornholio3897d ago

I'm confused about something. One PS4 is made in Japan and the other in China.

And when you look at the date it says Manufactured: May 2013.

Did they really start making them in may? And why would they make them in two regions instead of one?

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Ripsta7th3897d ago

Because they knew they were going to sell alot of units and so they prepared.. DUHHHH!!!

majiebeast3897d ago (Edited 3897d ago )

I think its gonna be

15 US

22 JAP

29 EU

But for any answers we have to wait for TGS.

FamilyGuy3897d ago

Jack already said they're focusing on the west this time so there's no way it's launching at the same time as the U.S.

I don't expect them to make Japan wait some super long time but the U.S. and Canada are definitely the only ones getting it on Nov 15th.

abzdine3897d ago

that would be insane.. now i am asking those lazy ass japanese developers to show that they still care about making great games at TGS and/or at the september 9th presentation.

I wanna see TLG, Shenmue, a next gen Dragon Quest...

kreate3897d ago

When u buy it in japan. Its made in japan.

When u buy it anywhere else, its made in china.

sinncross3897d ago

@MasterCornholio

Welcome to the world of hardware manufacture. This has happened for years for many different types of products.

For the PS at least, the JPN models are made in JPN and everywhere else gets the worldwide manufacturer.

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stage883897d ago (Edited 3897d ago )

They don't celebrate Christmas over there so releasing it then doesn't give an advantage. If they do though its damn impressive for Sony. They much have so much stock.

dcj05243897d ago

You don't celebrate the japanese holiday of CHRIATMASASU?

360ICE3897d ago

Japanese Christmas. Also known as Christmasuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

jessupj3897d ago

I think Sony are being smart this time. The west is a very important market, and I can tell Sony wants to dominate in those areas, specifically the US.

I was very surprised to hear that Japan hasn't got a release date yet. This is purely speculation, but I'm betting Sony is going to be allocating A LOT of PS4s to the US while possible sacrificing a little in other areas. They know MS will be desperately fighting for the US consumer as well. The demand is there and they just need the stock, because they know if they run out and the X1 is sitting there, people are likely to impulse buy. Especially parents and non-gamers shopping on black friday and for Christmas presents.

I see both Sony and MS aggressively targeting the US market.

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SmokingMonkey3897d ago

Man how things have changed.

I wonder if the Vita will see another surge in sales after the PS4 releases in Japan.

We all now how well handhelds do in Japan, and when you consider PS4's remote play

function and how small Japan is with Wifi probably everywhere, it's win win.

cero553897d ago

we also have to consider the fact that barely any Japanese games have been announced,hopefully tgs will change that.

Kayant3897d ago

If true then Sony have planned their launch extremely well to support so many countries at launch is quite amazing.

C-Thunder3897d ago

TGS, expect a date and some titles popular with the Asian markets.

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KEMCO ditch the RPGS for a horror Visual Novel - Horrific Xanatorium

Available right now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC is the latest from a prolific KEMCO team - Horrific Xanatorium; a horror Visual Novel

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TopSpin 2K25 Review - Serving Up a Nice Reboot | MP1st

TopSpin 2K25 Review - After a very long hiatus, TopSpin is back! Can Hangar 13 bring the venerable tennis series back to relevance?

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Days Gone, 5 Years Later

Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?

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mkis0077h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows906h ago(Edited 6h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0075h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19894h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot4h ago(Edited 4h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw6h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno6h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak6h ago(Edited 6h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy855h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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