{"id":401,"date":"2024-04-03T16:51:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T16:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=401"},"modified":"2024-10-30T20:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T20:42:04","slug":"when-we-dont-know-the-true-sales-figures-for-consoles-players-lose-out-alexa-macdonald-pushing-buttons-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/03\/when-we-dont-know-the-true-sales-figures-for-consoles-players-lose-out-alexa-macdonald-pushing-buttons-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhen we don\u2019t know the true sales figures for consoles, players lose out\u201d &#8211; Alexa MacDonald (Pushing Buttons, Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cYou might think: who cares? What\u2019s 5m PS2s between friends? And it\u2019s true that I find this lack of transparency particularly annoying because I am a journalist, and I like to have answers. But the absence of reported sales figures allows companies to spin narratives that don\u2019t line up with reality, to please the markets and their shareholders. They can claim success on whichever metric best backs up that story\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/apr\/03\/pushing-buttons-video-game-console-sales\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/apr\/03\/pushing-buttons-video-game-console-sales<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou might think: who cares? What\u2019s 5m PS2s between friends? And it\u2019s true that I find this lack of transparency particularly annoying because I am a journalist, and I like to have answers. But the absence of reported sales figures allows companies to spin narratives that don\u2019t line up with reality, to please the markets&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[64,5,3,4],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-email_newsletter","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":402,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}