# photo of the day | Sony Playstation 4 debuted in its homeland

Residents of Japan were finally able to purchase such a long-awaited gaming console in local stores. On the morning of February 22, sales of Sony Playstation 4 started at the largest shopping centers in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Traditionally, on the evening of February 21, on the eve of the start of sales, Sony organized a solemn ceremony dedicated to this event. Hiroshi Kavano, president of Sony Computer Entertainment Japan Asia, and Andrew House, director of SCEI, personally presented the console to the first Japanese buyer. By the way, the first lucky one came to the ceremony in military uniforms, than I wanted to emphasize my desire to play Battlefield 4 and the future game of game designer Hideo Kojima - Metal Gear Solid V. as soon as possible.

Looked like queues in front of Japanese stores on Saturday morning, as well as happy Japanese, who were able to purchase a console of a new generation, you can see in the photos directly from the scene.

Statistics on console sales in Japan will be known in about a week, but for now you can be happy for the people of the rising sun, because they had to wait almost three months before the Playstation 4 finally appears in its historic homeland.