{"id":2281,"date":"2008-11-21T16:38:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T21:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2281"},"modified":"2008-11-21T16:38:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T21:38:45","slug":"edmonton-sun-more-fam-wii-fun-despite-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2281","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton Sun: More fam-Wii fun despite downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I got another minute of fame being interviewed for a story in the Edmonton Sun, <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/Canada\/2008\/11\/19\/pf-7460061.html\">More fam-Wii fun despite downturn<\/a>. The interesting thing is how games seem to be recession-proof and how well the Wii is doing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite a flagging economy, $1.31 billion US was spent on video games in October in the U.S. alone &#8211; a gain of 18% from September.<\/p>\n<p>The spike is being led by Nintendo&#8217;s Wii interactive console, which according to figures from market research company NPD Group outpaced its competitors by selling 803,000 consoles in October.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder how high definition screens will do this Christmas? I would have thought this is the time for people to switch, but the news suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I got another minute of fame being interviewed for a story in the Edmonton Sun, More fam-Wii fun despite downturn. The interesting thing is how games seem to be recession-proof and how well the Wii is doing. Despite a flagging economy, $1.31 billion US was spent on video games in October in the U.S. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2281\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Edmonton Sun: More fam-Wii fun despite downturn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}