{"id":8206,"date":"2007-01-03T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/uutiset\/xbox-360-had-a-merry-christmas\/"},"modified":"2007-01-03T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-03T17:35:00","slug":"xbox-360-had-a-merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/uutiset\/xbox-360-had-a-merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 360 Had a Merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Market analysts indicate, that X360 was the best-selling console during the Christmas holidays. Downloadable HD movies have also made an impression in the United States.<br \/>\nXbox 360 sold around 2 million units during the Christmas holidays of 2006 in the United States. Even though it has been on the markets for a year, Xbox 360 still managed to lure new buyers in the course of the holiday shopping frenzy. Nintendo\u00b4s Wii was closely behind with 1.8 million sold units, with the first batch reportedly sold out within merely hours. Sony\u00b4s PS3 was trailing behind with only 750 000 units sold due to stock shortages<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117956232.html?categoryid=1009&#038;cs=1&#038;query=xbox target=_blank>Variety<\/a> downloadable HD movies for Xbox 360 have been a success. Renting or buying movies via Xbox Live has been surprisingly popular and Microsoft has succeeded where others could not. If you can choose between simply watching a movie from your comfy couch on your HD TV, or downloading a movie first on your PC or Mac, it\u00b4s quite obvious which option would be more tempting. HD movies have been particularly popular compared to the normal versions.<\/p>\n<p>Most downloaded titles include for example V for Vendetta, South Park and CSI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market analysts indicate, that X360 was the best-selling console during the Christmas holidays. Downloadable HD movies have also made an impression in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/news\/8206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livegamers.fi\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}