{"id":109216,"date":"2020-02-14T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/358211"},"modified":"2020-02-14T20:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T20:37:00","slug":"tekken-7-closed-out-2019-with-5-million-copies-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/02\/14\/tekken-7-closed-out-2019-with-5-million-copies-sold\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekken 7 closed out 2019 with 5 million copies sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong><em>Tekken 7<\/em>, the latest game in Bandai Namco\u2019s decades-old fighting game series, crossed 5 million lifetime sales a few months back.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tekken<\/em> game director&nbsp;Katsuhiro Harada <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harada_TEKKEN\/status\/1227831087503724544\">shared the milestone in a tweet<\/a> this week, noting that the game actually crossed the 5 million mark at the end of 2019 but it hadn\u2019t been noticed until now.<\/p>\n<p>After touring arcades for a couple of years, a home console and PC version of <em>Tekken 7 <\/em>debuted in 2017 and sold 3 million copies in just over a year. Last we heard, the game surpassed 4 million sold in July 2019, meaning another million copies were moved in the last half of the year alone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Tekken 7, the latest game in Bandai Namco\u2019s decades-old fighting game series, crossed 5 million lifetime sales a few months back. Tekken game director&nbsp;Katsuhiro Harada shared the milestone in a tweet this week, noting that the game actually crossed the 5 million mark at the end of 2019 but it hadn\u2019t been noticed until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109216","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=109216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}