{"id":199700,"date":"2007-07-04T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/04\/its-the-gameplay-stupid\/"},"modified":"2007-07-04T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T03:25:00","slug":"its-the-gameplay-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/04\/its-the-gameplay-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Gameplay, Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article mentions price, and lack of titles for the PS3, but it&#8217;s the Wiimote (what an in-bloody-credibly stupid name).<\/p>\n<p>Having to do &#8220;rocker switch, left, left, a, b, a&#8221; to swing a golf club is simply inferior game play.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><span style=\"font-size:130%;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reghardware.co.uk\/2007\/07\/03\/wii_sales_outstrip_ps3\/\">Six Wiis sold for every PS3 purchased in Japan<\/a><\/span><br \/>By James Sherwood<br \/>Published Tuesday 3rd July 2007 12:24 GMT<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s Wii continued to reign supreme in Japan last month, with sales outstripping Sony&#8217;s PlayStation 3 by a staggering six to one. The Wii outsold Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox 360 by an even greater margin.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures from Japanese market watcher and publisher Enterbrain, some 270,974 Wii consoles were sold in the four weeks to 24 June. This compares to just 41,628 PS3s and a measly 17,616 Xbox 360s, during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article mentions price, and lack of titles for the PS3, but it&#8217;s the Wiimote (what an in-bloody-credibly stupid name). Having to do &#8220;rocker switch, left, left, a, b, a&#8221; to swing a golf club is simply inferior game play. Six Wiis sold for every PS3 purchased in JapanBy James SherwoodPublished Tuesday 3rd July 2007 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1060,1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computer","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}