{"id":658810,"date":"2013-05-17T18:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=548374"},"modified":"2013-05-17T18:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T22:05:41","slug":"xbox-360-dominates-console-sales-for-28th-consecutive-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/658810","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 360 dominates console sales for 28th consecutive month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/17\/xbox-360-sales-april-2013\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/xbox-controller-sign.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Xbox 360 sales April 2013\" title=\"Xbox 360 sales April 2013\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>The <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/xbox-360\">Xbox 360<\/a> topped the charts again in April, marking the 28th consecutive month <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/microsoft\">Microsoft&#8217;s<\/a> gaming console has outsold <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sony\">Sony&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0PlayStation 3 and Nintendo&#8217;s Wii consoles. According to research from NPD Group, the Xbox 360 accounted for 42% of current-generation sales with 130,000 units sold last month. It wasn&#8217;t all good news, however, as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/19\/xbox-360-sales-march-2013-450165\/\">sales plummeted 50% from 261,000 units in March<\/a>. As a whole, the industry continued to struggle in April with total gaming sales down 25% year-over-year from $657.5 million to $495.2 million. Microsoft and Sony&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/24\/xbox-720-announcement-may-21st-463558\/\">next-generation consoles<\/a> are expected to help sales pick up when they launch ahead of the holidays this year.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/hmpYJT8lx_o\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Xbox 360 topped the charts again in April, marking the 28th consecutive month Microsoft&#8217;s gaming console has outsold Sony&#8217;s\u00a0PlayStation 3 and Nintendo&#8217;s Wii consoles. According to research from NPD Group, the Xbox 360 accounted for 42% of current-generation sales with 130,000 units sold last month. It wasn&#8217;t all good news, however, as sales plummeted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}