{"id":4030,"date":"2011-12-26T19:46:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T02:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2011-12-26T20:36:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T03:36:04","slug":"3ds-just-topped-gamecubes-total-unit-sales-in-japan-this-past-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/2011\/12\/26\/3ds-just-topped-gamecubes-total-unit-sales-in-japan-this-past-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"3DS just topped GameCube&#8217;s &#8220;total unit sales&#8221; in Japan, this past weekend."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Enterbrain.co.jp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.enterbrain.co.jp\/index.html\">Enterbrain.co.jp<\/a> just announced that both Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 passed the 1 million units sold mark in Japan during the Christmas weekend. \u00a0This makes both games the first two for Nintendo&#8217;s new handheld to cross that mark in Japan (and not collective, world wide sales). \u00a0Furthermore, with the 3DS selling another\u00a0510,629 units last week, it now puts it at 4.1+ million in its short 10 months of\u00a0availability in that market&#8230;passing GameCube&#8217;s 4.1 million mark. \u00a0What&#8217;s also impressive is that 3DS managed to hit 4 million units in sales even faster than Wii (which took a 54 weeks). \u00a0 On the one hand, it&#8217;s great to see Nintendo&#8217;s latest portable begin to pick up steam, but at the same time it reminds us just how poorly received was the GCN in Nintendo&#8217;s home country. \u00a0Now let&#8217;s see what the system can do in its first global year, which will be coming up in another quarter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enterbrain.co.jp just announced that both Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 passed the 1 million units sold mark in Japan during the Christmas weekend. \u00a0This makes both games the first two for Nintendo&#8217;s new handheld to cross that mark in Japan (and not collective, world wide sales). \u00a0Furthermore, with the 3DS selling another\u00a0510,629 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4032,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions\/4032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}