{"id":9438,"date":"2018-01-03T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/rocket_league_kicks_off_2018_by_scoring_40_million_players_worldwide"},"modified":"2018-01-03T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T14:30:00","slug":"rocket-league-kicks-off-2018-by-scoring-40-million-players-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/03\/rocket-league-kicks-off-2018-by-scoring-40-million-players-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket League Kicks Off 2018 By Scoring 40 Million Players Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news9.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/rocket_league_kicks_off_2018_by_scoring_40_million_players_worldwide\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/rocket_league_kicks_off_2018_by_scoring_40_million_players_worldwide\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news9.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo Switch has had plenty of success stories in the last nine-plus months, and now it&#8217;s got another thanks to the news that car\/football mashup <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/rocket_league\">Rocket League<\/a><\/strong> has reached a staggering new milestone. As of this month, the indie wonder hit that keeps on growing has hit 40 million players worldwide. Phew, that&#8217;s a <em>lot<\/em> of flashy goals.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rocket League now has 40 MILLION players worldwide! Thank you to our ever-growing community for helping us start the new year with such a fantastic milestone. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8UJQLSlECF\">pic.twitter.com\/8UJQLSlECF<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Rocket League (@RocketLeague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RocketLeague\/status\/948312773565362176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Originally released on PS4 back in July 2015, the instant classic has hit practically every other platform in the months and years that followed &#8211; which includes the excellent Nintendo Switch port in November 2017. Developer Psyonix announced the game had hit 33 million global players in July 2017, so it&#8217;s pretty safe to assume <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/rocket_league\">the incredibly well-received Switch version<\/a> helped bump that figure over the 40 million mark since then.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re huge fans of Rocket League here at Nintendo Life &#8211; in fact, we put in way too many hours on the virtual pitch over the Christmas holidays &#8211; but what do you guys make of it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo Switch has had plenty of success stories in the last nine-plus months, and now it&#8217;s got another thanks to the news that car\/football mashup Rocket League has reached a staggering new milestone. As of this month, the indie wonder hit that keeps on growing has hit 40 million players worldwide. Phew, that&#8217;s a lot [&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-9438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438","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=9438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}