{"id":134560,"date":"2023-09-01T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-154839"},"modified":"2023-09-01T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T18:30:00","slug":"spyro-reignited-trilogy-has-sold-10-million-units-ahead-of-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/09\/01\/spyro-reignited-trilogy-has-sold-10-million-units-ahead-of-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyro Reignited Trilogy Has Sold 10 Million Units Ahead Of 25th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ee9b47768be1a\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ee9b47768be1a\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Spyro the Dragon\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ee9b47768be1a\/spyro-the-dragon.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ee9b47768be1a\/spyro-the-dragon.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Spyro the Dragon\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Activision<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A certain generation of people are going to feel old when we say this, but <strong>Spyro the Dragon<\/strong> is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. And ahead of that big birthday, the official Spyro Twitter account has announced that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/spyro_reignited_trilogy\">Spyro Reignited Trilogy<\/a> has hit a scorching sales milestone: it&#8217;s shifted over 10 million units.<\/p>\n<p>Reignited Trilogy was developed by Toys for Bob and initially launched on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2018 \u2014 a Switch release launched the following year. The game contained remasters of the first three Spyro games, which debuted on the original PlayStation \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps1\/spyro_the_dragon\" class=\"external\">Spyro the Dragon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps1\/spyro_2_riptos_rage\" class=\"external\">Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer<\/a> (or <strong>Ripto&#8217;s Rage!<\/strong> for you North Americans), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps1\/spyro_year_of_the_dragon\" class=\"external\">Spyro: Year of the Dragon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With 10 million units sold \u2014 at least going by Activision estimates and reports \u2014 it&#8217;s safe to say fans <em>still<\/em> love Spyro, and it has many people clamouring for a &#8220;true&#8221; fourth game in the Spyro series. It happened for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/crash_bandicoot_4_its_about_time\">Crash Bandicoot<\/a>, after all, so why not Spyro?<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/spyrothedragon\/status\/1697658224348967118 @ 2023-09-01T18:54:37+01:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kicking off our special <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Spyroversary?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Spyroversary<\/a> month with an extra special celebration. Shout out to the Spyro community for hitting this HUGE milestone. \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TrzoQyOVmu\">pic.twitter.com\/TrzoQyOVmu<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Spyro (@SpyroTheDragon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpyroTheDragon\/status\/1697658224348967118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Spyro the Dragon launched on 9th September 1998 on the original PlayStation and stars a purple dragon called Spyro along with his dragonfly friend Sparx. The pair must save the Dragon Kingdom from Gnasty Gnorc, who has turned all of the larger dragons into crystal and stolen all of their gems.<\/p>\n<p>The two sequels expanded the scope of the original, giving players new worlds to explore, new skills to try out, and sometimes new characters to play as. For anyone who grew up with a PlayStation, or who loved 3D platformers, Spyro was a dream come true.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:91525 @ 2023-09-02T02:39:51+01:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Have you played Spyro Reignited Trilogy on Switch? Would you like to see a fourth &#8220;true&#8221; Spyro game? Get toasty in the comments<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Activision A certain generation of people are going to feel old when we say this, but Spyro the Dragon is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. And ahead of that big birthday, the official Spyro Twitter account has announced that the Spyro Reignited Trilogy has hit a scorching sales milestone: it&#8217;s shifted over 10 [&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-134560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134560","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=134560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}