{"id":5300,"date":"2009-02-16T19:49:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T03:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5300"},"modified":"2013-04-30T20:46:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T03:46:10","slug":"activision-blizzard-launches-fun4all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/activision-blizzard-launches-fun4all\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun4All Label Comes to U.K."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8389\" alt=\"Fun4All-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/Fun4All-S.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" \/>FEB. 16, 2009 \u2022 The Fun4All label was launched in the U.K. by Activision Blizzard to better attract owners of the Nintendo Wii. The line debuted with six family titles, each featuring a selection of Nintendo-style social mini-games. The publisher launched a similar label called &#8220;Wee 1<sup>st&#8221;<\/sup>\u00a0 in North America last fall.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\" data-mce-mark=\"1\"><em>Impact: Third-party publishers have historically struggled making money on Nintendo platforms.\u00a0 Nintendo is now doing so well with the DS and Wii that there is no longer the option to ignore these platforms.\u00a0 Going the casual game route is a low cost, low risk way to break into the Wii market.\u00a0 However, it may be more about making a quick buck than establishing a long term presence on the platform.\u00a0 There will be plenty of competition in this space and even a powerhouse publisher like Activision Blizzard may struggle to make its product standout.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEB. 16, 2009 \u2022 The Fun4All label was launched in the U.K. by Activision Blizzard to better attract owners of the Nintendo Wii. The line debuted with six family titles, each featuring a selection of Nintendo-style social mini-games. The publisher launched a similar label called &#8220;Wee 1st&#8221;\u00a0 in North America last fall. Impact: Third-party publishers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5300"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8393,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5300\/revisions\/8393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}