{"id":11180,"date":"2018-01-24T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/a_new_patch_is_slated_for_wwe_2k18_this_thursday_but_it_could_be_a_hot_tag_too_late"},"modified":"2018-01-24T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:05:00","slug":"a-new-patch-is-slated-for-wwe-2k18-this-thursday-but-it-could-be-a-hot-tag-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/24\/a-new-patch-is-slated-for-wwe-2k18-this-thursday-but-it-could-be-a-hot-tag-too-late\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Patch Is Slated For WWE 2K18 This Thursday, But It Could Be A Hot Tag Too Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news3.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/a_new_patch_is_slated_for_wwe_2k18_this_thursday_but_it_could_be_a_hot_tag_too_late\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/a_new_patch_is_slated_for_wwe_2k18_this_thursday_but_it_could_be_a_hot_tag_too_late\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s safe to say the Nintendo Switch port of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/wwe_2k18\">WWE 2K18<\/a><\/strong> didn&#8217;t have the best of starts when it launched at the end of 2017 &#8211; just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/wwe_2k18\">check out our review for more grisly details<\/a> &#8211; but can its latest post-release patch get the wrestling machine back on its feet?<\/p>\n<p>The patch, due for release on Thursday, will be the third one for Switch and while the second saw some marginal improvements to in-game performance, WWE 2K18&#8217;s woeful slowdown was still a significant issue. The patch is now live on PC, PS4 and XO and its arrival on Switch will, according to publisher 2K, bring it in-line with these other versions. Whether that means it will actually be playable is another matter, but we&#8217;ll be updating our WWE 2K18 review next week so look out for the official Nintendo Life verdict.<\/p>\n<p>Would an improved version of WWE 2K18 be enough to coax you back, or do you think the sports sim port is beyond repair? We&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s safe to say the Nintendo Switch port of WWE 2K18 didn&#8217;t have the best of starts when it launched at the end of 2017 &#8211; just check out our review for more grisly details &#8211; but can its latest post-release patch get the wrestling machine back on its feet? The patch, due for release [&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-11180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180","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=11180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}