{"id":21339,"date":"2011-02-02T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T18:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21339"},"modified":"2011-02-03T14:41:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T22:41:34","slug":"white-still-losing-video-game-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=21339","title":{"rendered":"White Still Losing Video Game Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/images-6.jpeg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/images-6.jpeg','popup','width=291,height=173,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/images-6-tm.jpg\" height=\"118\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Images-6\" \/><\/a>When <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shaunwhite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun White<\/a><\/strong> announced that he was going to enter the celebrity video game market with a skateboarding game, we all wondered how he would do against the granddaddy of action sports videos <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyhawk.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Hawk<\/a><\/strong>. According to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/tony-hawk-shreds-shaun-white-95372\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Mr. White has had his ass handed to him in 2010.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a battle between two generations of skateboarders, Hawk ruled the roost and kicked newcomer White to the curb. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shredgame.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Activision&#8217;s Tony Hawk Shred<\/a><\/strong> sold over 135,000 copies in the U.S. alone in 2010, compared to under 60,000 copies of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/shaunwhitegame.us.ubi.com\/skateboarding\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ubisoft&#8217;s Shaun White Skateboarding<\/a><\/strong>, according to video game tracking firm The NPD Group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have to see how those numbers will look when Shaun White&#8217;s games have been on the market for 10 years. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/news\/tony-hawk-shreds-shaun-white-95372\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Shaun White announced that he was going to enter the celebrity video game market with a skateboarding game, we all wondered how he would do against the granddaddy of action sports videos Tony Hawk. According to a story in the Hollywood Reporter, Mr. White has had his ass handed to him in 2010. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21344,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21339\/revisions\/21344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}