{"id":11263,"date":"2018-01-26T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/epic_games_is_interested_in_bringing_fortnite_to_the_switch"},"modified":"2018-01-26T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T06:55:00","slug":"epic-games-is-interested-in-bringing-fortnite-to-the-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/26\/epic-games-is-interested-in-bringing-fortnite-to-the-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games Is Interested in Bringing Fortnite to the Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"article-header\">\n<section class=\"title\">\n<aside \/>\n<p class=\"description\">A storm is brewing?<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"byline\">\n<ul class=\"article-author\">\n<li class=\" first\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"avatar\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/users\/17162\/avatar.jpg\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" alt=\"SwitchVogel\" \/><\/li>\n<li>by <a class=\"author-name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/users\/SwitchVogel\">Mitch Vogel<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\" last\"><span>3 hours ago<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"share-this\">\n<li class=\" first\">Share:<\/li>\n<li class=\"value\"><span class=\"accent-bg share-count\">112<\/span><\/li>\n<li \/>\n<li \/>\n<li \/>\n<li class=\" last\" \/>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"body body-text article-text\">\n<section class=\"text\">\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Fortnite\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/epic_games_is_interested_in_bringing_fortnite_to_the_switch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/epic_games_is_interested_in_bringing_fortnite_to_the_switch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Fortnite\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>One of the biggest games in competitive gaming right now is <strong>Fortnite<\/strong>, a PUBG inspired multiplayer shooter that emphasizes every man for himself. It has a rapidly rising playerbase and plenty of traction on Twitch, with ports of the version available on every major platform except the Switch. However, if recent comments are to be believed, that could be changing in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A fan recently asked Donald Mustard\u2014the creative director\u2014on Twitter if a Switch port would be something that Epic Games would be interested in. Mustard was quite clear that he would like to bring it to the Switch, though evasive on any concrete plans. Still, given that the game doesn\u2019t seem to be too resource intensive, perhaps discussions are being held behind closed doors about potential options.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Yes. Yes I am. Hopefully we do that at some point!<\/span>\u2014 Donald Mustard (@DonaldMustard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldMustard\/status\/956574489537519618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 25, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">What do you think? Would you like to see Fortnite come to the Switch? How much time have you been spending with it on other platforms? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"text source\">[via <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldMustard\/status\/956574489537519618\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldMustard\/status\/956574489537519618\">twitter.com<\/a>, <a rel=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldMustard\/status\/956574489537519618\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DonaldMustard\/status\/956574489537519618\">twitter.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A storm is brewing? by Mitch Vogel 3 hours ago Share: 112 One of the biggest games in competitive gaming right now is Fortnite, a PUBG inspired multiplayer shooter that emphasizes every man for himself. It has a rapidly rising playerbase and plenty of traction on Twitch, with ports of the version available on every [&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-11263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263","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=11263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}