{"id":5573,"date":"2009-04-19T08:26:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=5573"},"modified":"2013-05-06T19:57:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T02:57:33","slug":"hanuman-sells-well-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/hanuman-sells-well-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanuman Sells Well in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8501\" alt=\"bighanuman-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bighanuman-S.jpg\" width=\"208\" height=\"425\" \/>APRIL 19, 2009 \u2022 Much better than expected sales of Hanuman: Boy Warrior in India has led Sony Computer Entertainment to up its estimate of first year sales of the 499 Rupee ($10) PS2 game from 30,000 to 50,000 units. Most international PS2 games sell 15,000 a year in the country. The game, released last March, is the first Sony PlayStation 2 game playable in Hindi and English.\u00a0 Hanuman&#8217;s success has led Sony to plan to release six more Hindi games this year.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Impact: Sales in India are currently a rounding error in the overall scheme of SCE&#8217;s business.\u00a0With average sales of only $150,000 it is hard to justify localizing a game for the market.\u00a0However, selling 50,000 units of a game is an encouraging sign for growth potential. It also shows that localization does make a big difference.\u00a0<\/span> <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APRIL 19, 2009 \u2022 Much better than expected sales of Hanuman: Boy Warrior in India has led Sony Computer Entertainment to up its estimate of first year sales of the 499 Rupee ($10) PS2 game from 30,000 to 50,000 units. Most international PS2 games sell 15,000 a year in the country. The game, released last [&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\/5573"}],"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=5573"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8502,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5573\/revisions\/8502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}