{"id":93863,"date":"2019-05-21T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/343108"},"modified":"2019-05-21T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T20:59:00","slug":"god-of-war-has-sold-10-million-copies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/21\/god-of-war-has-sold-10-million-copies\/","title":{"rendered":"God of War has sold 10 million copies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong>Sony Santa Monica\u2019s <em>God of War <\/em>has sold over 10 million copies in a little over a year\u2019s time.<\/p>\n<p>The game\u2019s sales were briefly mentioned in Sony\u2019s recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sony.net\/SonyInfo\/IR\/library\/presen\/irday\/pdf\/2019\/GNS_E.pdf\">presentation<\/a> to investors, alongside information on PlayStation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/343066\/Backwards_compatibility_and_streaming_key_to_Sonys_nextgen_strategy.php\">next-generation platform goals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sizable milestone, and one that other Sony flagship games like <em>Uncharted 4 <\/em>and <em>The Last of Us <\/em>have also reached in their lifetime. Back in 2018,&nbsp;<em>God of War<\/em>&nbsp;managed to sell 3.1 million copies in just its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317539\/God_of_War_sold_31M_copies_in_three_days.php\">first three days<\/a> on shelves, and, according to Sony&#8217;s data,&nbsp;has now&nbsp;managed to surpass its predecessor <em>God of War 3<\/em> in lifetime sales as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Sony Santa Monica\u2019s God of War has sold over 10 million copies in a little over a year\u2019s time. The game\u2019s sales were briefly mentioned in Sony\u2019s recent presentation to investors, alongside information on PlayStation\u2019s next-generation platform goals. It\u2019s a sizable milestone, and one that other Sony flagship games like Uncharted 4 and The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93863","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\/93863","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=93863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}