{"id":101820,"date":"2016-08-23T07:54:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T05:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101820"},"modified":"2016-08-23T07:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T05:55:49","slug":"no-mans-sky-sales-drop-by-81-one-week-after-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101820-no-mans-sky-sales-drop-by-81-one-week-after-launch","title":{"rendered":"No Man&#8217;s Sky sales drop by 81% one week after launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite its initial success, No Man&#8217;s Sky sales have fallen by 81% in the second\u00a0week after the game&#8217;s launch <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gamerant.com\/no-mans-sky-sales-drop\/\" target=\"_blank\">GameRant reports<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While the game previously topped the\u00a0UK\u00a0All Format Sales Chart,\u00a0it has since been overtaken by <strong>F1 2016<\/strong> and now ranks second, just above <strong>LEGO: Star Wars Awakens<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that the UK Top Sales chart does not account for digital sales and is <strong>based solely on physical sales<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This follows recent performance issues in both the PC and PlayStation 4 versions of No Man&#8217;s Sky, with the developer promising to prioritise bug fixes.<\/p>\n<p>No Man&#8217;s Sky has had a successful but controversial launch so far, with gamers either\u00a0enjoying the title or\u00a0voicing concerns over <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101448-the-massive-list-of-missing-features-in-no-mans-sky.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>missing features<\/strong> <\/a>or\u00a0misleading game trailers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The South African gaming market is headed for massive trouble\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101308-the-south-african-gaming-market-is-headed-for-massive-trouble.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The South African gaming market is headed for massive trouble<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to PlayStation Plus international prices set to increase\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/101814-playstation-plus-international-prices-set-to-increase.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">PlayStation Plus international prices set to increase<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 space exploration games to play instead of No Man\u2019s Sky\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101640-5-space-exploration-games-to-play-instead-of-no-mans-sky.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 space exploration games to play instead of No Man\u2019s Sky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Man&#8217;s Sky sales have fallen by 81% one week after the game&#8217;s launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":100978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11681],"tags":[31,20574,1769,9796,20973,11828,21336,241],"class_list":["post-101820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-best-selling","tag-controversy","tag-drop","tag-fall","tag-no-mans-sky","tag-plummet","tag-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}