{"id":4677,"date":"2009-10-21T23:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"100-million-need-for-speed-games-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4677-100-million-need-for-speed-games-sold","title":{"rendered":"100 million Need for Speed games sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA has announced that the Need for Speed franchise has crossed the 100 million sold copies mark. This makes it the best selling racing franchise ever, and it has earned a whopping $2.7 billion since it launched back in 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Gibeau, EA Games Label president noted &ldquo;Few video game franchises ever reach the 100 million units mark so this is a huge honor with the launch of Need for Speed SHIFT and the upcoming release of Need for Speed NITRO, we hope to continue to deliver the most entertaining, action-packed racing experiences.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The most recent Need for Speed game, NFS: Shift marks a welcome return to form for a franchise which many were losing faith in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=3300\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Need for Speed<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NFS is best selling racing franchise ever<\/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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677","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=4677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}