{"id":121867,"date":"2020-12-10T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/dotemu_delays_windjammers_2_to_2021"},"modified":"2020-12-10T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T17:30:00","slug":"dotemu-delays-windjammers-2-to-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/10\/dotemu-delays-windjammers-2-to-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Dotemu Delays Windjammers 2 To 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe4b3fc91557e\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe4b3fc91557e\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Windjammers 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe4b3fc91557e\/windjammers-2.original.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/fe4b3fc91557e\/windjammers-2.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Windjammers 2\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Dotemu has announced that the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/windjammers_2\">Windjammers 2<\/a> will be further delayed on all platforms to address issues raised by player feedback.<\/p>\n<p>The game, which will serve as a sequel to the first Windjammers title from 1994, will now join the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/windjammers\">original&#8217;s relatively recent port<\/a> on Switch in 2021. It was originally intended to launch on Switch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/windjammers_2_will_have_switch_owners_in_a_spin_next_year\">back in 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The team has shared the news with fans on social media, saying, &#8220;This decision is a tough one and it has serious consequences for all of us, but we think it\u2019s fair enough if it allows us to give you the Windjammers <em>2<\/em> you expect and you deserve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Important update about <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Windjammers2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Windjammers2<\/a> development. \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RKQky0kKdu\">pic.twitter.com\/RKQky0kKdu<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Dotemu (@Dotemu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dotemu\/status\/1337041882917056514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>For anyone unfamiliar with the series, Windjammers is an arcade-style sports game that has players throwing a flying disc at their opponent&#8217;s goal zone in a top-down court. The first trailer for Windjammers 2 was released in 2019, showing off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/watch_the_first_gameplay_footage_of_disc-slinger_windjammers_2\">some early gameplay footage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you looking forward to playing Windjammers 2 on Switch? Are you happy for the game to be delayed if it results in a better final product? Share your thoughts with us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dotemu has announced that the upcoming Windjammers 2 will be further delayed on all platforms to address issues raised by player feedback. The game, which will serve as a sequel to the first Windjammers title from 1994, will now join the original&#8217;s relatively recent port on Switch in 2021. It was originally intended to launch [&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-121867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121867","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=121867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}