{"id":113377,"date":"2016-12-07T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=113377"},"modified":"2016-12-07T16:21:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:21:38","slug":"playstation-4-sales-cross-50-million-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/113377-playstation-4-sales-cross-50-million-mark","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 4 sales cross 50 million mark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"article-text\"><span class=\"article-prime\">Sony announced on 6 December that the PlayStation 4 had officially passed 50 million units sold.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"article-text\"><span class=\"article-prime\">This was helped by strong demand during the year-end holiday season confirmed the Japanese company.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The PlayStation 4, which went on sale in late 2013 is currently Sony&#8217;s fastest-selling game console.<\/p>\n<p>For reference, this means that the PS4 is just shy of the PlayStation 2&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>lifetime sales figure<\/strong><\/a> of 155 million &#8211; the best-selling console of all time.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/112859-a-breakdown-of-just-how-bad-playstation-plus-was-in-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">A breakdown of just how bad PlayStation Plus was in 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PlayStation 4 has just passed a massive milestone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":108319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[22871,31,22345,1853,241],"class_list":["post-113377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-22871","tag-active","tag-million","tag-playstation4","tag-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113377","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}