{"id":201678,"date":"2017-03-07T07:54:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=201678"},"modified":"2017-03-07T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T05:55:30","slug":"nintendo-switch-sells-like-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/201678-nintendo-switch-sells-like-crazy.html","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch sells like crazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sales of the Nintendo Switch have\u00a0taken off in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The Nintendo Switch was launched globally on 3 March, with local pricing sitting at R5,299.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Wingfield, a reporter at the New York Times, said the Friday and Saturday sales of the Nintendo Switch exceeded the first 2-day sales of any system in Nintendo\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is particularly notable, given that Switch launched in March, rather than the holidays,\u201d said Wingfield.<\/p>\n<p>He said Zelda for the Nintendo Switch is the bestselling standalone launch title in Nintendo\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/199250-hands-on-with-the-nintendo-switch.html\">Hands-on with the Nintendo Switch<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nintendo Switch has exceeded the first 2-day sales of any system in Nintendo\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":199254,"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":[871,40638],"class_list":["post-201678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-switch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201678"}],"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=201678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201682,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201678\/revisions\/201682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}