{"id":1450,"date":"2009-02-26T20:43:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T16:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1450"},"modified":"2009-02-26T20:43:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T16:43:49","slug":"nascar-switches-gears-in-gaming-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=1450","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR switches gears in gaming category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EA Sports&#8217; whimsical new NASCAR game represents a strategy shift that could lead to an overhaul of the sport&#8217;s gaming category.<\/p>\n<p>Declining sales from the &#8220;NASCAR &#8217;09&#8221; game, a desire to reach a broader audience and the need to create a game that fits the Wii console were all integral to the formation of &#8220;NASCAR Kart Racing,&#8221; which hit store shelves the week of the Daytona 500.<\/p>\n<p>EA&#8217;s &#8220;NASCAR &#8217;09&#8221; game can still be purchased, but the formation of new games in that line is on hold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The old game was more for the simulation players, the serious gamers&#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/yourturn\/viewtopic.php?t=521493\" target=\"_blank\">More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA Sports&#8217; whimsical new NASCAR game represents a strategy shift that could lead to an overhaul of the sport&#8217;s gaming category. Declining sales from the &#8220;NASCAR &#8217;09&#8221; game, a desire to reach a broader audience and the need to create a game that fits the Wii console were all integral to the formation of &#8220;NASCAR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-nascar","category-video_games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}