{"id":116824,"date":"2020-08-16T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/rumour_is_the_legend_of_zelda_skyward_sword_taking_to_the_skies_on_nintendo_switch"},"modified":"2020-08-16T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T15:45:00","slug":"rumour-is-the-legend-of-zelda-skyward-sword-taking-to-the-skies-on-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/16\/rumour-is-the-legend-of-zelda-skyward-sword-taking-to-the-skies-on-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Is The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Taking To The Skies On Nintendo Switch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/548b903888327\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/548b903888327\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Zelda\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/548b903888327\/zelda.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/548b903888327\/zelda.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Zelda\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Following on from an Amazon UK listing for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/amazon_lists_need_for_speed_hot_pursuit_remastered_for_nintendo_switch\">Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered<\/a><\/strong> yesterday, a page for a Switch version of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/legend_of_zelda_skyward_sword\">The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword<\/a><\/strong> has now been discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Although there&#8217;s no launch date on display in the image below, in the description underneath this section of the listing there appears to be a placeholder release date of &#8220;1 Jan. 2030&#8221; &#8211; you can also apparently pre-order the game for <em>\u00a3<\/em>69.99.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Surprisingly, this isn&#8217;t the first time we&#8217;ve heard about Skyward Sword taking flight on the Switch. Back in November 2018, there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/rumour_the_legend_of_zelda_skyward_sword_is_taking_to_the_skies_on_switch\">rumour about it<\/a>, and not long after this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/the_dreams_over_folks_nintendo_confirms_there_are_no_plans_for_zelda_skyward_sword_on_switch\">a Nintendo representative shot it down.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As pointed out by Nintendo Life contributor, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/@scully1888\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Scullion<\/a>, next year is The Legend of Zelda&#8217;s 35th anniversary. Earlier this week trademarks <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gonintendo.com\/stories\/366801-nintendo-snags-multiple-trademarks-for-the-legend-of-zelda-for-ga\">supposedly tied to the Zelda series<\/a> also appeared online.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to see Skyward Sword make a return flight on the Switch? <em>Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from an Amazon UK listing for Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered yesterday, a page for a Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword has now been discovered. Although there&#8217;s no launch date on display in the image below, in the description underneath this section of the listing there appears to [&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-116824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116824","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=116824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}