Sony wooing Japanese to PS4 with Dragon Quest

Sony is trying to woo Japanese game fans to the PlayStation 4 home console that went on sale in November in the US and Europe, but didn't arrive at stores here until February. Atsushi Morita, appointed head of Sony Computer Entertainment's Japan operations effective Monday, acknowledged the momentum for the PlayStation 4 in Japan wasn't catching up with the West, although its cumulative global sales reached 10 million recently, the fastest pace for any game console. The PS4 accounts for 78 per cent of the home-console market in Japan, thrashing Microsoft Corp. of the US and local competitor Nintendo Co., but Tokyo-based Sony Corp. won't give a regional breakdown of recent sales. Microsoft's Xbox One is set to go on sale in Japan Thursday, also much later than its November sale in the US and some parts of Europe, according to AP.