{"id":8109,"date":"2010-12-12T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T20:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8109"},"modified":"2018-08-01T17:13:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T17:13:51","slug":"leapster-explorer-sells-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/leapster-explorer-sells-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Leapster Explorer Sells Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9906\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Leapster-S.jpg\" alt=\"Leapster-S\" width=\"400\" height=\"324\" \/>DEC. 12, 2010 \u2022 A decade after toy maker LeapFrog saw enormous success with its LeapPad reading platform, the company has scored another major hit with its latest\u00a0Leapster Explorer handheld educational gaming console. Geared for kids under nine years old, content is available on cartridges or via downloads through a computer. Thirty titles are currently available. Games focused on creativity incorporate art, music, and imaginative play. School-themed games integrate activities for math, reading, writing, and spelling. Benefiting from extensive word-of-mouth between parents, and generous placement on pre-holiday press coverage, the under-$100 system has been selling out at many retailers. Available in green and pink versions, some retailers report higher demand of the pink model.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><em>Impact: DFC used to provide more coverage of what we called edutainment products.\u00a0 In recent years, DFC&#8217;s coverage of these products has admittedly been limited.\u00a0 Much of this was due to the fact that the edutainment market has really struggled with finding a solid business model.\u00a0 However, the Leapster Explorer is a true example of how an edutainment system can work with both a physical retail and online distribution model.\u00a0 The Explorer has game cartridges sold at retail just like traditional game systems such as the Nintendo DS.\u00a0 In addition, consumers can buy digital download credits, either directly online or via cards sold at retail.\u00a0 These allow users to download much lower cost products such as simple games or interactive books.\u00a0 Most all of the major retail games are educational based but also feature a major entertainment license like Toy Story, SpongeBob SquarePants or Star Wars.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEC. 12, 2010 \u2022 A decade after toy maker LeapFrog saw enormous success with its LeapPad reading platform, the company has scored another major hit with its latest\u00a0Leapster Explorer handheld educational gaming console. Geared for kids under nine years old, content is available on cartridges or via downloads through a computer. Thirty titles are currently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[367,78],"tags":[396,389],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109"}],"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=8109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16691,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8109\/revisions\/16691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}