{"id":108173,"date":"2020-01-27T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/random_we_didnt_expect_to_see_someone_playing_pokemon_on_stage_at_the_grammys_2020"},"modified":"2020-01-27T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T15:30:00","slug":"random-we-didnt-expect-to-see-someone-playing-pokemon-on-stage-at-the-grammys-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/27\/random-we-didnt-expect-to-see-someone-playing-pokemon-on-stage-at-the-grammys-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: We Didn&#8217;t Expect To See Someone Playing Pok\u00e9mon On Stage At The Grammys 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7e58de8680b66\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7e58de8680b66\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7e58de8680b66\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><figcaption class=\"caption\">Here&#8217;s Jasper Dolphin taking his Switch up on stage, and rightly so&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you like to keep up to date with your music industry news, you&#8217;re probably well aware that the Grammy Awards 2020 have just taken place. What you might not know is that the surprise star of the show &#8211; in our eyes, at least &#8211; was a Nintendo Switch console.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d have thought that playing video games while in attendance at the awards is probably frowned upon, never mind the act of taking your console up on stage, but that&#8217;s exactly what Davon Wilson, known as Jasper Dolphin (<em>like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/random_steven_universe_gamecube_reference_leads_to_short_but_useful_history_lesson\">Dolphin<\/a>?!<\/em>), did when accompanying Grammy winner Tyler, the Creator to collect his award. The console wasn&#8217;t immediately noticeable, but fans soon picked up on a neon red Joy-Con poking out beneath Dolphin&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-reddit\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-card\" data-card-created=\"1580185346\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/comments\/euhwm6\/there_was_someone_holding_a_switch_on_the_grammy\/?utm_content=timestamp&amp;utm_medium=post_embed&amp;utm_name=b43d270ee9f14f6fbf464c7418f6a0ce&amp;utm_source=embedly&amp;utm_term=euhwm6\">https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/comments\/euhwm6\/there_was_someone_holding_a_switch_on_the_grammy\/?utm_content=timestamp&amp;utm_medium=post_embed&amp;utm_name=b43d270ee9f14f6fbf464c7418f6a0ce&amp;utm_source=embedly&amp;utm_term=euhwm6<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Of course, the next question that jumps to the mind is &#8216;what was he playing?&#8217;, and thankfully the rapper has answered that very conundrum on Twitter. As for which game specifically, we&#8217;re none the wiser.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">I was playing Pok\u00e9mon!<\/span>\u2014 J A S P E R (@JasperDolphin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasperDolphin\/status\/1221642096181796866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We imagine Nintendo doesn&#8217;t mind the appearance one bit &#8211; how often do you get the chance to have your hardware seen by millions of viewers for free? <em>Let&#8217;s hope this is the start of a new trend&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s Jasper Dolphin taking his Switch up on stage, and rightly so&#8230; If you like to keep up to date with your music industry news, you&#8217;re probably well aware that the Grammy Awards 2020 have just taken place. What you might not know is that the surprise star of the show &#8211; in our eyes, [&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-108173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108173","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=108173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}