{"id":4202,"date":"2009-07-30T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"starcraft-2-estimated-to-sell-4-million-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/4202-starcraft-2-estimated-to-sell-4-million-units","title":{"rendered":"StarCraft 2 estimated to sell 4 million units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever vocal Wedbush Morgan video game industry analyst Michael Pachter predicts that StarCraft 2 will sell 4 million units within its first few months of sales.<br \/>When discussing the more important issue of when the game will be released, Pachter did not have much to say.<\/p>\n<p>Blizzard announced a while back that it will run the StarCraft 2 beta for around 6 months. With only five months left of 2009, a release before the end of the year will be impossible to achieve if the developer sticks to its original beta plan.<\/p>\n<p>Pachter told <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/php-bin\/news_index.php?story=24623\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a> that he believes the SC2 beta will not require the full six months, and a 2009 release is therefore still viable. <br \/>Blizzard is expected to begin beta testing Star Craft 2 within the next 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=2063\" target=\"_self\">Discuss StarCraft 2 <\/a>sales in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wedbush Morgan analyst predicts massive StarCraft 2 sales<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","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=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}