{"id":12958,"date":"2011-07-16T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"just-dance-franchise-reaches-14-million-units-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/12958-just-dance-franchise-reaches-14-million-units-sold","title":{"rendered":"Just Dance franchise reaches 14 million units sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">When it comes to game developers, the Nintendo Wii isn&rsquo;t exactly the most popular kid in the class. Mostly due to the limitations of the hardware, the Wii&rsquo;s most successful games and franchises have almost all been created by Nintendo themselves.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">However, as a casual platform, the Wii has enjoyed phenomenal success &ndash; and any developer willing to cash in on that casual market may find a huge pot of gold at the end of that mediocre-hardware rainbow.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Just ask Ubisoft, whose casual hit Just Dance 2 just claimed the title of best-selling 3rd party Wii game ever created. That may sound like a lot of qualifiers, but the franchise has sold more than 14 million units to date.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Let&rsquo;s just hope the success of the franchise doesn&rsquo;t cause Ubisoft to get overzealous &ndash; or we may see Just Dance go the way of Guitar Hero.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just Dance 2 becomes best-selling 3rd party Wii game ever<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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-12958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}