{"id":13581,"date":"2018-02-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/the_nintendo_switch_news_channel_took_almost_a_year_to_create"},"modified":"2018-02-23T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T14:00:00","slug":"the-nintendo-switch-news-channel-took-almost-a-year-to-create","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/23\/the-nintendo-switch-news-channel-took-almost-a-year-to-create\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Switch News Channel Took Almost A Year To Create"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/the_nintendo_switch_news_channel_took_almost_a_year_to_create\/attachment\/0\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/the_nintendo_switch_news_channel_took_almost_a_year_to_create\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"nintendo news channel.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>A feature that many users will take for granted, and one that we expect is completely overlooked by some, the Nintendo Switch News section is a handy little tool for gamers who like to keep up to date with their favourite games. Not unlike Nintendo Life (a pretty stellar news provider, <em>or so we&#8217;ve heard<\/em>), this icon on the Switch&#8217;s homepage takes you to a selection of stories and updates about your favourite games, and even provides the <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/the_latest_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_gift_should_help_you_with_that_hard_bit_in_the_dlc\">occasional in-game bonus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We often talk about the development of games themselves, but the relatively low-key features built in to a console at launch can often go under the radar. Changing this, the official Japanese Nintendo website has uploaded <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/jobs\/keyword\/31.html\">a post<\/a> sharing some details on how the news service was created.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the author of the article\u00a0Yuusuke Inoue (who works in Science and Engineering at Nintendo),\u00a0states that the development process took almost a whole year to complete, with a team of 4-5 staff members on board. The process faced many challenges along the way including the differences in feedback from Japanese and Western audiences; the development team would keep suggesting new ideas until they found something that could satisfy everyone.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/the_nintendo_switch_news_channel_took_almost_a_year_to_create\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/the_nintendo_switch_news_channel_took_almost_a_year_to_create\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2018-02-23 at 13.42.34.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Do you use the news channel functionality on your Switch? Are you happy that it was included as a feature on the console? We&#8217;d love to read your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A feature that many users will take for granted, and one that we expect is completely overlooked by some, the Nintendo Switch News section is a handy little tool for gamers who like to keep up to date with their favourite games. Not unlike Nintendo Life (a pretty stellar news provider, or so we&#8217;ve heard), [&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-13581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581","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=13581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}