{"id":111047,"date":"2020-04-01T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/04\/flipnote_studio_isnt_coming_to_nintendo_switch_because_it_was_all_for_april_fools_day"},"modified":"2020-04-01T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T08:30:00","slug":"flipnote-studio-isnt-coming-to-nintendo-switch-because-it-was-all-for-april-fools-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/01\/flipnote-studio-isnt-coming-to-nintendo-switch-because-it-was-all-for-april-fools-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Flipnote Studio Isn&#8217;t Coming To Nintendo Switch, Because It Was All For April Fool&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f94dc0e997032\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f94dc0e997032\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Flipnote Studio\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f94dc0e997032\/flipnote-studio.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f94dc0e997032\/flipnote-studio.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Flipnote Studio\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> It was all for April Fool&#8217;s Day!<\/p>\n<p>This has to rank as one of the most elaborate fakes we&#8217;ve seen in a long time, so congratulations to all involved. We&#8217;ll even let you off for the fact that you didn&#8217;t actually pull the stunt on April Fool&#8217;s Day. (We&#8217;re not bitter about being caught out, honest.)<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We faked a Flipnote Studio for Switch &#8220;&#8221;leak&#8221;&#8221; to goof on a couple of small Discord guilds, and needless to say it got wayyy bigger than we ever anticipated&#8230; sorry!<\/p>\n<p>Full proof is in the replies, happy April Fools :^) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bTvZ3mgXHn\">pic.twitter.com\/bTvZ3mgXHn<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 James \ud83d\udc0b (@rakujira) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rakujira\/status\/1245241285167980544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Original Story [Mon 30th Mar, 2020 09:15 BST]: Flipnote Studio<\/strong>, the popular animation sharing app which appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/dsiware\/flipnote_studio\">DSi<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds-eshop\/flipnote_studio_3d\">3DS<\/a>, could be coming to the Nintendo Switch, if a new rumour is to be believed.<\/p>\n<p>A <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/calcium-chan.itch.io\/clipnote\/devlog\/133532\/regarding-the-leaks\">series of screens<\/a> apparently taken from a Switch version of the game have leaked online. According to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mBot2sCbqoU\">Source Gaming<\/a>, the shots are from a development build and were accidentally shared online by someone within Nintendo in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>While it would be fairly easy to fake screens like this, Source Gaming has taken a good look at the Japanese text and stated that it checks out. Again, that doesn&#8217;t mean this is 100% true \u2013 anyone who owns the originals and can speak Japanese could fake this \u2013 but if this is fake, it&#8217;s a pretty solid mock-up.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the screens below and let us know what you make of this rumour with a comment.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Flipnote Studio Switch\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f478f505a1200\/flipnote-studio-switch.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f478f505a1200\/flipnote-studio-switch.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"Flipnote Studio Switch\"><\/a><a title=\"Flipnote Studio Switch\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/42ba47d69cab1\/flipnote-studio-switch.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/42ba47d69cab1\/flipnote-studio-switch.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"Flipnote Studio Switch\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Flipnote Studio Switch\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0195826a163aa\/flipnote-studio-switch.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0195826a163aa\/flipnote-studio-switch.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"Flipnote Studio Switch\"><\/a><a title=\"Flipnote Studio Switch\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9452b15e30c73\/flipnote-studio-switch.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" width=\"445\" height=\"245\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9452b15e30c73\/flipnote-studio-switch.445x245.jpg\" alt=\"Flipnote Studio Switch\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: It was all for April Fool&#8217;s Day! This has to rank as one of the most elaborate fakes we&#8217;ve seen in a long time, so congratulations to all involved. We&#8217;ll even let you off for the fact that you didn&#8217;t actually pull the stunt on April Fool&#8217;s Day. (We&#8217;re not bitter about being caught [&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-111047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111047","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=111047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}