Sony wooing Japanese to PS4 with Dragon Quest

Published September 1, 2014 11:15am ET



TOKYO (AP) — Sony is trying to woo Japanese game fans to the PlayStation 4 home console that went on sale in November in the U.S. 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.

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