{"id":102243,"date":"2019-10-21T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/free-to-start_switch_racer_asphalt_9_legends_downloaded_one_million_times_in_first_week"},"modified":"2019-10-21T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T22:30:00","slug":"free-to-start-switch-racer-asphalt-9-legends-downloaded-one-million-times-in-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/21\/free-to-start-switch-racer-asphalt-9-legends-downloaded-one-million-times-in-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Free-To-Start Switch Racer Asphalt 9: Legends Downloaded One Million Times In First Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6efa652293951\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6efa652293951\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6efa652293951\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OY0njkPxj48?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>When the free-to-start arcade racer <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/asphalt_9_legends\">Asphalt 9: Legends<\/a><\/strong> launched earlier this month, we awarded it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/asphalt_9_legends\">seven out of ten stars<\/a> and said it offered &#8220;likable&#8221; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/burnout\">Burnout<\/a><\/strong> style action, provided you played it the right way.<\/p>\n<p>It appears we weren&#8217;t the only ones who were slightly taken with this title, either. According to the game&#8217;s publisher and developer Gameloft, the &#8220;mobile racing franchise&#8221; reached a new milestone by hitting one million installs in its first week of availability on the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an official statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is an incredible moment for us. Bringing Asphalt 9: Legends to Nintendo Switch is something we wanted to do for a long time, as we are great fans of this platform. It has been a strong request from our community and it translates today with one million downloads in a week. We put all our craft into this new tailored version of our game to make it really fit this fantastic console. The sheer arcade fun that is Asphalt 9: Legends really shines, especially in the local splitscreen races with four players that the Nintendo Switch made possible.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again, Asphalt 9: Legends is free-to-download \u2013 so if you haven&#8217;t already tried it out, you can head over to the Switch eShop right now and check it out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you downloaded this game yet? Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OY0njkPxj48?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] When the free-to-start arcade racer Asphalt 9: Legends launched earlier this month, we awarded it seven out of ten stars and said it offered &#8220;likable&#8221; Burnout style action, provided you played it the right way. It appears we weren&#8217;t the only ones who were slightly taken with this title, either. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}