{"id":454,"date":"2012-03-29T21:54:02","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T04:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454"},"modified":"2018-07-09T22:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T22:27:33","slug":"journey-fastest-selling-psn-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/journey-fastest-selling-psn-title\/","title":{"rendered":"thatgamecompany Journey Fastest Selling PlayStation Network Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_455\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-455\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-455\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Journey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"163\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Journey is a PSN exclusive.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">MARCH 29, 2012 \u25cf Los Angeles-based developer thatgamecompany has broken PlayStation Network and PlayStation Store records with its third title, Journey. In two weeks the game has become the fastest selling first- or third-party title in SCEA&#8217;s region. Journey is a fantasy that explores self-discovery in an artful environment often likened to a Japanese garden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>I<span style=\"color: #000080;\">mpact: Not bad for a small team working on a modest budget, although a budget considered large by PSN-exclusive terms. The $15 Journey is the third title in thatgamecompany&#8217;s contract with Sony, which provided funding and some marketing. But with strong notices for the indie studio&#8217;s first two games, flOw and Flower, there already was sizable consumer interest in Journey. Yet the striking takeaway from Journey&#8217;s sales success is that there is a wider demand for intelligent content that taps emotions other than willful avarice and destruction.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARCH 29, 2012 \u25cf Los Angeles-based developer thatgamecompany has broken PlayStation Network and PlayStation Store records with its third title, Journey. In two weeks the game has become the fastest selling first- or third-party title in SCEA&#8217;s region. Journey is a fantasy that explores self-discovery in an artful environment often likened to a Japanese garden. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110,168,78,74],"tags":[450,84],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16443,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/16443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}