{"id":26136,"date":"2020-04-22T16:53:27","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceo-na.com\/?p=26136"},"modified":"2020-04-22T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T17:34:34","slug":"videogames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/news\/videogames\/","title":{"rendered":"<Videogames>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Videogame sales in March hit their highest in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As the coronavirus shut down the country and forced millions inside their homes, certain businesses including gaming, online streaming and video conferencing have witnessed a boost in user engagement.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of gaming hardware, software and accessories in the United States jumped 35% to $1.6 billion last month from a year earlier, according to data from research firm NPD.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-videogames-sales\/u-s-videogame-sales-surge-in-march-as-lockdown-keeps-people-indoor-idUSKCN22332O?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=businessNews&amp;utm_source=morning_brew\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to Reuters<\/a>, with\u00a0games like \u201cAnimal Crossing: New Horizons\u201d,\u201cNBA 2K20\u201d, and \u201cCall of Duty: Modern Warfare\u201d, sales\u00a0are the highest for the month since March 2008, when sales grew over 52% to $1.8 billion, NPD analyst Mat Piscatella said.\u00a0New-generation consoles, Microsoft Corp\u2019s (<span id=\"\u201dsymbol_MSFT.O_2\u201d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/MSFT.O\">MSFT.O<\/a><\/span>) Xbox Series X and Sony\u2019s PlayStation 5, are expected to come out at the end of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Videogame sales in March hit their highest in over a  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1338],"tags":[99,1385,1492,210],"class_list":["post-26136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ceo","tag-ceo-northam","tag-sales","tag-videogames"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26139,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26136\/revisions\/26139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/servidor-mxigen1.com\/ceona-antiguo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}