{"id":27893,"date":"2013-03-20T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T08:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=27893"},"modified":"2013-03-20T18:28:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T08:28:02","slug":"simcity-sells-more-than-1-million-at-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=27893","title":{"rendered":"SIMCITY SELLS MORE THAN 1 MILLION AT LAUNCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Sales Drive Record-Breaking Performance<\/p>\n<p>Sydney, Australia. \u2013 March 19, 2013 \u2013  Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced that SimCity\u2122 recorded more than 1.1 million units sold through in the first two weeks, making this the biggest SimCity launch of all time.  Roughly 54 percent of those sales have been of digital versions of the game, downloaded directly to players\u2019 PCs via Origin\u2122 or other digital download services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimCity had a great weekend with sales strong across both North America and Europe, adding to overwhelming demand at launch that has us tracking well beyond expectations for the game,\u201d said Peter Moore, Chief Operating Officer for EA.  \u201cSimCity is one of the storied brands in gaming, and Maxis delivered a game re-envisioned and engineered for the online age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Sales Drive Record-Breaking Performance Sydney, Australia. \u2013 March 19, 2013 \u2013 Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) today announced that SimCity\u2122 recorded more than 1.1 million units sold through in the first two weeks, making this the biggest SimCity launch of all time. Roughly 54 percent of those sales have been of digital versions of<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=27893\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27894,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27893\/revisions\/27894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}