{"id":104293,"date":"2019-11-23T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/physical_copies_of_ikaruga_for_nintendo_switch_are_now_in_active_production"},"modified":"2019-11-23T06:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T06:30:00","slug":"physical-copies-of-ikaruga-for-nintendo-switch-are-now-in-active-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/23\/physical-copies-of-ikaruga-for-nintendo-switch-are-now-in-active-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Physical Copies Of Ikaruga For Nintendo Switch Are Now In &#8220;Active&#8221; Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ffb0ead56dda2\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ffb0ead56dda2\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Ikaruga\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ffb0ead56dda2\/ikaruga.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/ffb0ead56dda2\/ikaruga.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Ikaruga\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Publisher Nicalis has been teasing a hard copy of Treasure&#8217;s sublime shmup <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/ikaruga\">Ikaruga<\/a><\/strong> for Switch since it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/nicalis_teases_ikaruga_physical_release_with_worlds_largest_nintendo_switch_case\">showed off<\/a> a gigantic Switch game case at PAX West 2018. It sent fans of this iconic game \u2013 first published as an arcade title in 2001 \u2013 into an absolute frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly a year later, Nicalis <em>officially<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/06\/nicalis_reveals_ikaruga_physical_release_for_switch\">revealed<\/a> the physical release of the game for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4. Now, in the latest update, the American publisher has confirmed physical copies are in &#8220;active&#8221; production.<\/p>\n<p>The news was once again delivered via Twitter:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Physical copies of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ikaruga?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ikaruga<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PS4?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PS4<\/a> are currently in active production. A release date will be announced when all the details are finalized. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3033ZGfspF\">https:\/\/t.co\/3033ZGfspF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lVOs6T6btQ\">pic.twitter.com\/lVOs6T6btQ<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Nicalis, Inc. (@nicalis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicalis\/status\/1197957283692634118?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As noted, a release date for this physical version will be announced when &#8220;all the details&#8221; are finalised. We&#8217;re guessing the next status update will also include a price. If you want to be notified about this particular game when it goes on sale, you can sign up to the company&#8217;s <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/nicalis.us12.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=110f3f395714937a9dd6eebcd&amp;id=a1d376b1a5\">mail service<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While you wait for the physical version to be dated, why not read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/ikaruga\">our review<\/a>. We said it was the &#8220;perfect shmup on the perfect system&#8221; and awarded it nine out of ten stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publisher Nicalis has been teasing a hard copy of Treasure&#8217;s sublime shmup Ikaruga for Switch since it showed off a gigantic Switch game case at PAX West 2018. It sent fans of this iconic game \u2013 first published as an arcade title in 2001 \u2013 into an absolute frenzy. Roughly a year later, Nicalis officially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}