{"id":107907,"date":"2020-01-24T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/stardew_valley_has_sold_over_10_million_copies_in_just_four_years"},"modified":"2020-01-24T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T03:00:00","slug":"stardew-valley-has-sold-over-10-million-copies-in-just-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/24\/stardew-valley-has-sold-over-10-million-copies-in-just-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardew Valley Has Sold Over 10 Million Copies In Just Four Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/519f5277263fd\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/519f5277263fd\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Stardew Valley\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/519f5277263fd\/stardew-valley.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/519f5277263fd\/stardew-valley.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Stardew Valley\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Although <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/stardew_valley\">Stardew Valley<\/a><\/strong> was inspired by the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gbc\/harvest_moon\">Harvest Moon<\/a><\/strong> series, it&#8217;s now considered to be the <em>definitive<\/em> farming simulation. Since its initial release on PC in 2016, the game&#8217;s creator Eric &#8216;ConcernedApe&#8217; Barone has continually improved the game while at the same time porting it across to every platform possible, including the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<p>The hard work appears to have paid off, with the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stardewvalley.net\/press\/\">official game site<\/a> and Barone (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1220407295667920896\">via Twitter<\/a>) revealing the game has now sold over 10 million copies worldwide. It&#8217;s an outstanding effort for an indie game that only started out four years ago.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stardew Valley has sold over 10 million copies. It&#8217;s strange &amp; amazing to think back to when I was making this game in my bedroom w\/ no clue if anyone would like it. Only 4 years ago! To everyone who has played this game, supported it, and made all of this possible: Thank you!!<\/span>\u2014 ConcernedApe (@ConcernedApe) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConcernedApe\/status\/1220407295667920896?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>No further details were provided, so we can&#8217;t go into any detail about the Switch sales. In saying this, the game is frequently at the top of the eShop download charts. If you haven&#8217;t already played Stardew Valley, you really should try it out, or at least read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/stardew_valley\">our review<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Stardew Valley was inspired by the Harvest Moon series, it&#8217;s now considered to be the definitive farming simulation. Since its initial release on PC in 2016, the game&#8217;s creator Eric &#8216;ConcernedApe&#8217; Barone has continually improved the game while at the same time porting it across to every platform possible, including the Nintendo Switch. 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-107907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107907","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=107907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}