{"id":197059,"date":"2017-02-02T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=197059"},"modified":"2017-02-02T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T14:44:30","slug":"playstation-4-posts-record-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/197059-playstation-4-posts-record-sales.html","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation 4 posts record sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has announced that the PlayStation 4\u00a0saw record sales during Q3 of its 2016\/17 financial year, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2017-02-02-ps4-just-had-its-best-three-months-ever\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The quarter\u00a0spans October, November, and December 2016.<\/p>\n<p>During the quarter, PlayStation 4 sales reached 9.7 million units &#8211; more than any previous quarter since the console&#8217;s launch.<\/p>\n<p>Last year over the same period, 8.4 million PlayStation 4\u00a0units were sold. 57.1 million PlayStation 4 consoles have been sold in total.<\/p>\n<p>The new Slim and Pro models of the PlayStation 4 were on sale over the period, with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/190636-playstation-4-festive-deals-for-south-africa.html\">significant discounts on older PlayStation hardware<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on offer.<\/p>\n<p>Sony also released a\u00a0virtual reality accessory for the PlayStation during the quarter, the PlayStation VR.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/196576-playstation-vr-now-available-in-south-africa.html\">PlayStation VR now available in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony has announced that the PlayStation 4 saw record sales during Q3 of its 2016\/17 financial year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":149805,"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_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10940,23509,38856,39604,34519,193],"class_list":["post-197059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-playstation","tag-playstation-4-ps4","tag-playstation-4-pro-ps4-pro","tag-playstation-4-slim","tag-playstation-vr","tag-sony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197059"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197073,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197059\/revisions\/197073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}