{"id":1926,"date":"2013-09-17T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1926"},"modified":"2013-09-17T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T15:27:41","slug":"interesting-stats-for-tangible-game-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1926","title":{"rendered":"Interesting stats for tangible game experiences."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2013-09-16-disney-infinity-sells-294-000-in-first-two-weeks?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=us-daily\"><i>Disney Infinity<\/i> sells 294K copies in its first two weeks.<\/a> Disney reportedly spent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2013-08-16-disney-spent-over-USD100m-on-infinity-development-report\">upwards of $100MM on the project<\/a>, with execs keeping a keen eye on its performance. According to a spokesman, &#8220;We&#8217;re very pleased with the launch in both the U.S. and globally, and believe Disney Infinity is well-positioned for the critical holiday sales season.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2013-09-17-skylanders-hits-USD1-5-billion-lifetime-revenue?utm_source=newsletter&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_campaign=us-daily\"><i>Skylanders<\/i> hits 1.5B lifetime revenue.<\/a> The expansion, <i>Skylanders Giants,<\/i> moved 500K units in its first two weeks of sale (again, compared to 294K for <i>Disney Infinity<\/i>). Apparently the franchise is picking up steam: &#8220;The new lifetime revenue total of $1.5 billion indicates that the series is as lucrative as ever. The series debuted in October 2011, and didn&#8217;t reach $1 billion in sales until February 2013. It has added a further $500 million in just seven months.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1613260297\/golem-arcana?ref=live\">Jordan Weisman&#8217;s <i>Golem Arcana<\/i> is at $178K\/$500K with 27 days to go.<\/a> I&#8217;ve not gotten into tabletop gaming previously, but this is starting to look like a world worthy of devotion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney Infinity sells 294K copies in its first two weeks. Disney reportedly spent upwards of $100MM on the project, with execs keeping a keen eye on its performance. According to a spokesman, &#8220;We&#8217;re very pleased with the launch in both the U.S. and globally, and believe Disney Infinity is well-positioned for the critical holiday sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,77,14,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-tangible-storytelling","category-technology","category-transmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-v4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}