{"id":53307,"date":"2014-02-19T08:15:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T06:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53307"},"modified":"2014-02-19T08:15:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T06:15:44","slug":"sony-playstation-4-sales-rocket-past-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/hardware\/53307\/sony-playstation-4-sales-rocket-past-targets\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony PlayStation 4 sales rocket past targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp said it has sold 5.3 million Playstation 4 game consoles as of February 8, surpassing its full-year target ahead of its release in Japan next week.<\/p>\n<p>Sony had said that it hoped to sell 5 million units by the end of March after releasing the Playstation 4 on November 29 in the United States, Western Europe and Latin America and rolling it out across other Asian countries since then.<\/p>\n<p>The console will go on sale in Japan on February 22, the last country currently scheduled to handle the device.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft Corp said in January that it had sold more than 3 million of its Xbox One console by the end of December after it was also released in late November.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Sony<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony PlayStation 4 sees strong demand\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/49891\/sony-playstation-4-sees-strong-demand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony PlayStation 4 sees strong demand<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony Entertainment seeks to cut $100 million in costs\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/49651\/sony-entertainment-seeks-to-cut-100-million-in-costs\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony Entertainment seeks to cut $100 million in costs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony sells 1 million PS4s on day one\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/49601\/sony-sells-1-million-ps4s-on-day-one\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony sells 1 million PS4s on day one<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Sony consumer electronics focus to be put to the test\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/electronics\/48743\/sony-consumer-electronics-focus-to-be-put-to-the-test\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sony consumer electronics focus to be put to the test<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony Corp said it has sold 5.3 million Playstation 4 game consoles as of February 8, surpassing its full-year target ahead of its release in Japan next week.<\/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":[25,5104,293,385],"class_list":["post-53307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-playstation-4","tag-sales","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53307","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=53307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53313,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53307\/revisions\/53313"}],"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=53307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}