{"id":114331,"date":"2020-06-18T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/06\/respawn_entertainment_launches_apex_legends_on_switch_this_fall"},"modified":"2020-06-18T23:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T23:15:00","slug":"respawn-entertainment-launches-apex-legends-on-switch-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/18\/respawn-entertainment-launches-apex-legends-on-switch-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Respawn Entertainment Launches Apex Legends On Switch This Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/123a25544a882\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/123a25544a882\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Apex Legends for Switch\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67782fb91c467\/apex-legends-for-switch.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 506'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/67782fb91c467\/apex-legends-for-switch.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Apex Legends for Switch\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>In April last year, Respawn Entertainment said it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/respawn_entertainment_is_well_aware_of_the_demand_for_apex_legends_on_switch\">well aware of the demand<\/a> for its battle royale <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/apex_legends\">Apex Legends<\/a><\/strong> on the Nintendo Switch. The game&#8217;s lead producer Drew McCoy also previously mentioned how his team would &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/respawn_would_love_to_bring_apex_legends_to_switch_but_has_nothing_to_reveal_right_now\">love<\/a>&#8221; to bring the popular free-to-play title to the hybrid system.<\/p>\n<p>Well, today at EA Play Live, this has been made official. Yes, Respawn Entertainment&#8217;s latest first-person shooter will be coming to the Switch this Fall. The Nintendo release will also include the newly announced cross-play feature, and you can expect more details about this particular version in the coming months.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Coming Fall 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nac6dtXTkK\">pic.twitter.com\/nac6dtXTkK<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Apex Legends (@PlayApex) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayApex\/status\/1273756088815345664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Respawn Entertainment&#8217;s game director Chad Grenier had to say about this announcement:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re huge fans of Nintendo here at Respawn and we&#8217;re incredibly excited to be bringing Apex Legends to the Switch this Fall. And we&#8217;ll share more details in the months ahead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So that means you&#8217;ll be able to squad up no matter where you and your friends prefer to play &#8211; Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, or on the PC via Origin and Steam. We&#8217;re throwing out a lifeline and healing the divide between the platforms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Apex Legends - Cross-play\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/31a1fd209afa3\/apex-legends-cross-play.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' viewBox='0 0 900 506'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/31a1fd209afa3\/apex-legends-cross-play.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Apex Legends - Cross-play\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Will you be dropping into the battlefield to try this out? <em>Leave a comment down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In April last year, Respawn Entertainment said it was well aware of the demand for its battle royale Apex Legends on the Nintendo Switch. The game&#8217;s lead producer Drew McCoy also previously mentioned how his team would &#8220;love&#8221; to bring the popular free-to-play title to the hybrid system. Well, today at EA Play Live, this [&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-114331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114331","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=114331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}