{"id":10243,"date":"2018-01-13T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/super_meat_boys_day_one_switch_sales_almost_as_high_as_its_xbox_360_debut"},"modified":"2018-01-13T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T14:15:00","slug":"super-meat-boys-day-one-switch-sales-almost-as-high-as-its-xbox-360-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/super-meat-boys-day-one-switch-sales-almost-as-high-as-its-xbox-360-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Meat Boy&#8217;s Day One Switch Sales Almost As High As Its Xbox 360 Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news11.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/super_meat_boys_day_one_switch_sales_almost_as_high_as_its_xbox_360_debut\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/super_meat_boys_day_one_switch_sales_almost_as_high_as_its_xbox_360_debut\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news11.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The good news continues to flow for Nintendo Switch as <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/super_meat_boy\">Super Meat Boy<\/a><\/strong> developer Team Meat confirms the game&#8217;s day one days almost topped those racked up during its Xbox 360 debut&#8230; in 2010, no less! Yes, we know SMB is almost seven years old but that&#8217;s not the point. Xbox 360 used to be <em>the<\/em> place to be for indies and up and coming titles &#8211; thanks to events such as the XBLA Summer Of Arcade &#8211; so the fact Switch came, &#8220;shockingly close,&#8221; to those figures really does drive home how influential the platform is becoming.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Me looking at Super Meat Boy on Switch sales stats. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0RKWHODG8s\">pic.twitter.com\/0RKWHODG8s<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Team Meat (@SuperMeatBoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SuperMeatBoy\/status\/951943736467976192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There is some context to be considered, though. Back in 2010, SMB was meant to be one of the top billed games on the platform when it launched as a timed exclusive, but when the game failed to get the marketing push Team Meat was promised (ultimately leading it to sell more on PC than it did on 360, despite a 30-day window of exclusivity) the studio went public with its concerns, eventually cutting ties with Microsoft shortly after.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Super Meat Boy on Switch first day sales came shockingly close to it&#8217;s debut on Xbox 360 back in 2010. That&#8217;s. nuts.<\/span>\u2014 Team Meat (@SuperMeatBoy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SuperMeatBoy\/status\/951949505171144704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Thankfully, SMB has gone to garner strong sales elsewhere, including on the humble Switch. And, lest we forget, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/super_meat_boy_forever\">Super Meat Boy Forever<\/a><\/strong> is due out this year, too. Let us know what you think of SMB, and whether you&#8217;re playing again\/for the first time on Nintendo&#8217;s hybrid machine&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The good news continues to flow for Nintendo Switch as Super Meat Boy developer Team Meat confirms the game&#8217;s day one days almost topped those racked up during its Xbox 360 debut&#8230; in 2010, no less! Yes, we know SMB is almost seven years old but that&#8217;s not the point. Xbox 360 used to be [&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-10243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243","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=10243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}