{"id":213107,"date":"2025-10-14T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213107\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T20:04:09","slug":"charts-show-nascar-25%e2%80%b2-off-to-quick-start-in-sales-after-game-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/213107\/","title":{"rendered":"Charts show \u2018NASCAR 25\u2032 off to quick start in sales after game release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">After more than two years of work, NASCAR and iRacing today released the sport\u2019s new console video game that has high hopes and appears to be off to a fast start in sales. \u201cNASCAR 25\u2033 has been in development since at least early October 2023 when it was officially announced, and NASCAR hopes to please racing video game fans with this latest offering after several critical reviews of versions by its former partner: Miami-based Motorsport Games, which iRacing replaced in the simulation-style console racing game category. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">The game was released on Xbox Series XS and PlayStation 5 devices and is planned to come out on Steam for PC users in November. On Xbox\u2019s chart of the most played games today, \u201cNASCAR 25\u2033 ($59.99 for standard edition, $79.99 for gold edition) ranked fourth in the sports category behind EA Sports\u2019 \u201cMadden NFL 26,\u201d \u201cCollege Football 26\u201d and \u201cFC 26,\u201d and it was 10th on PlayStation in the overall charts, according to CheapCharts.com. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-media \">iRacing was already NASCAR\u2019s simulator style partner for amateur and professional race car drivers with products more realistic and expensive than console video games. It became well-known during the pandemic when it helped NASCAR drivers put on simulator races that were aired by Fox Sports when the sport was shut down due to the coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After more than two years of work, NASCAR and iRacing today released the sport\u2019s new console video game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-213107","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}