{"id":10937,"date":"2011-03-29T10:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"crysis-2-crushes-dead-space-2-dragon-age-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10937-crysis-2-crushes-dead-space-2-dragon-age-2","title":{"rendered":"Crysis 2 crushes Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just days after release, Crysis 2 has already jumped into the UK all-formats chart at number one (MAXIMUM DEBUT!), pushing previous chart-topper Homefront down to third place, and holding out against the 3DS launch titles with a microwave cannon. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.videogamer.com\/news\/crysis_2_is_eas_biggest_launch_of_the_year_so_far.html\" target=\"_blank\">Videogamer<\/a>, this puts the game on top of EA&rsquo;s launch pile for 2011 so far.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly enough, given the series&rsquo; PC Master Race legacy, the Xbox 360 version of the sequel has totally dominated sales, claiming 58% of units shifted, with the PS3 version coming in at 28%, and the PC version at a rather dismal 14%. <\/p>\n<p>And then PC gamers wonder why EA is prioritising its console versions of games.<\/p>\n<p>In related news, however, players can expect another game update pretty soon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been working hard to resolve as many of the post-launch issues as possible including some improvements to our game security,&#8221; a Crytek dev writes over on MyCrysis.com. &#8220;These updates will be made available via automatic-download later this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And Xbox sales crush PC, PS3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}