{"id":87620,"date":"2019-03-08T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/338323"},"modified":"2019-03-08T18:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T18:11:00","slug":"octopath-traveler-shipped-1-5-million-copies-has-a-mobile-prequel-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/08\/octopath-traveler-shipped-1-5-million-copies-has-a-mobile-prequel-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Octopath Traveler shipped 1.5 million copies, has a mobile prequel on the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Square Enix\u2019s \u201cHD-2D\u201d Switch roleplaying game <em>Octopath Traveler <\/em>has moved a grand total of 1.5 million units, counting shipments and digital sales, since its release last July&nbsp;according to a Japanese announcement spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/gematsu.com\/2019\/03\/octopath-traveler-champions-of-the-continent-announced-for-smartphones\">Gematsu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth mentioning that shipped doesn\u2019t necessarily reflect the number of copies sold, but even still the milestone represents a significant amount of interest in the visually distinct RPG, especially for a Switch exclusive title in a relatively short amount of time.<\/p>\n<p>Square Enix has hinted that a second <em>Octopath<\/em> is in development for consoles, but in the meantime the company has also announced that it\u2019ll be launching a smartphone prequel to <em>Octopath Traveler<\/em> this year, at least in Japan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A translation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OCTOPATH_PR\/status\/1103901434242686977\">tweet<\/a> shared to the game\u2019s official Twitter account notes that a closed demo for that game, <em>Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent<\/em>,&nbsp; will take place ahead of its full launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Square Enix\u2019s \u201cHD-2D\u201d Switch roleplaying game Octopath Traveler has moved a grand total of 1.5 million units, counting shipments and digital sales, since its release last July&nbsp;according to a Japanese announcement spotted by Gematsu. It\u2019s worth mentioning that shipped doesn\u2019t necessarily reflect the number of copies sold, but even still the milestone represents a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87620","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\/87620","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=87620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}