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Sony games chief says PS4 doing 'OK' in home market of Japan

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Sony’s games chief said this week that a lack of locally produced games has meant that the PlayStation 4 is doing just “OK” in the Japanese market.

The PS4 has been a spectacular success on a global basis since its launch in November, with more than 7 million systems sold. It is selling at a faster rate than the PlayStation 2 and the PlayStation 3 did during their launch years. And it is outselling Microsoft’s Xbox One.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.