{"id":1695,"date":"2009-09-08T21:41:51","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T02:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/08\/console-wars-are-interesting-in-europe\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T06:13:06","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T11:13:06","slug":"console-wars-are-interesting-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/08\/console-wars-are-interesting-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Console wars are interesting in Europe."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not says me, but according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodgearguide.com.au\/article\/317626\/has_sony_won_console_war\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.goodgearguide.com.au\/article\/317626\/has_sony_won_console_war', 'Good Gear Guide');\" target=\"new\">Good Gear Guide<\/a> (Australian based something or another site found via N4G).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> This places the Sony PS3 in a commanding position to usurp the Xbox 360 and Wii as Europe\u2019s best-selling console. (Prior to the launch of the Slim, the original PlayStation 3 was only a million units behind its competitors in this territory.) The success of the PS3 Slim has been echoed around the globe, with total worldwide sales estimated at 500,000 \u2014 and that\u2019s in its first week alone. With its inbuilt Blu-ray player, integrated Wi-Fi and free online gaming, it\u2019s hard to argue that the PS3 doesn\u2019t offer better value for money than its competitors (provided you actually want all of these things, of course).<\/p>\n<p>Whichever way you look at it, it would seem that the price is finally right for hesitant PS3 buyers. One thing\u2019s for sure, the console wars are about to get a lot more interesting\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sustainability.  That is where it is at.  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(Prior to the launch of the Slim, the original PlayStation 3 was only a million units behind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/09\/08\/console-wars-are-interesting-in-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Console wars are interesting in Europe.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,9,50],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-14","tag-ps3","tag-wii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2716,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/2716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}