{"id":32764,"date":"2012-02-22T11:10:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T09:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=32764"},"modified":"2012-02-22T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T09:14:34","slug":"the-witcher-2-sold-massively-in-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/32764-the-witcher-2-sold-massively-in-2011","title":{"rendered":"The Witcher 2 sold massively in 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proving that everybody loves creepy blonde albino monster hunters (you just have to get to know them), <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/21525-CD-Projekt\">CD Projekt Red<\/a> has confirmed that The Witcher 2 sold over 1 million copies last year.<\/p>\n<p>The sales were divvied up between 40,000 on CD Projekt&#8217;s own <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20693-GOG-Good-old-Games\">GOG.com<\/a>; 270,000 on other unnamed digital distribution platforms; and the remainder on <a title=\"System Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19930-Steam\">Steam<\/a> and retail boxes &#8211; totalling 1,110,055 copies sold.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably enough, the first game pushed 40,000 copies in the same time, several years after its release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to admit, though, that the sales results for The Witcher, five years on from the game&#8217;s premier, are remarkable,&#8221; CDPR managing director Adam Badowski told Eurogamer. &#8220;If anything, they prove that the content we put into our games ages well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Witcher will continue to generate buzz in the coming years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, though, The Witcher 2 is getting ready, set, reload to launch on Xbox in April, while a third game is reportedly already in development.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-02-21-the-witcher-2-sold-1-1-million-copies-in-2011\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatively speaking, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":31728,"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":[2,3],"tags":[31,2122,241,1093,2191],"class_list":["post-32764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-active","tag-cd-projekt-red","tag-sales","tag-the-witcher","tag-the-witcher-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32764","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\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32766,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32764\/revisions\/32766"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}