{"id":5115,"date":"2021-04-03T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-03T03:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2021-04-03T03:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-03T03:00:16","slug":"nintendo-switch-sonys-playstation-and-microsofts-xbox-consoles-vanish-from-chinese-e-commerce-platforms-amid-smuggling-crackdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=5115","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch, Sony\u2019s PlayStation and Microsoft\u2019s Xbox consoles vanish from Chinese e-commerce platforms amid smuggling crackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostVideo games and consoles \u2013 including Sony\u2019s PlayStation, Microsoft\u2019s Xbox and the Nintendo Switch \u2013 have been vanishing from online and offline stores in China this week after dozens of arrests resulting from a fresh crackdown on smuggling, which has long been a popular method of playing games not officially for sale in the country.The Public Security Department of Guangdong Province said on Monday that it had arrested 54 parallel importers and seized 78 million yuan (US$11.9 million) worth of\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/policy\/article\/3128172\/nintendo-switch-sonys-playstation-and-microsofts-xbox-consoles-vanish\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostVideo games and consoles \u2013 including Sony\u2019s PlayStation, Microsoft\u2019s Xbox and the Nintendo Switch \u2013 have been vanishing from online and offline stores in China this&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}