{"id":50424,"date":"2013-12-03T11:17:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-03T09:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=50424"},"modified":"2013-12-03T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T09:19:22","slug":"sony-boasts-2-1-million-playstation-4s-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/50424\/sony-boasts-2-1-million-playstation-4s-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony boasts 2.1 million PlayStation 4s sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp said on Tuesday that global sales of its PlayStation 4 game console exceeded 2.1 million units as of December 1.<\/p>\n<p>The number included the 700,000 units sold through in Europe and Australasia launching on November 29, Sony said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Sony launched the PS4 in the United States and Canada in mid-November, a week before Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox One console hit stores, marketing the device aggressively in an advertising blitz that the company believes will pay off during the year-end holiday season.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Sony<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony PS4 beats Microsoft Xbox in the battle of public opinion\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/46806\/sony-ps4-beats-microsoft-xbox-in-the-battle-of-public-opinion\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony PS4 beats Microsoft Xbox in the battle of public opinion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony expects big PlayStation 4 sales numbers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/46240\/sony-expects-big-playstation-4-sales-numbers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony expects big PlayStation 4 sales numbers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to PlayStation 4 make or break for Sony\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/45560\/playstation-4-make-or-break-for-sony\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">PlayStation 4 make or break for Sony<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony unveils Xperia Z1 smartphone\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/45337\/sony-unveils-xperia-z1-smartphone\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony unveils Xperia Z1 smartphone<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp said on Tuesday that global sales of its PlayStation 4 game console exceeded 2.1 million units as of December 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":39782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[25,3854,293,385],"class_list":["post-50424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-playstation","tag-sales","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50425,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50424\/revisions\/50425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}