{"id":1547,"date":"2017-10-05T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/big_ant_studios_would_love_to_bring_ashes_cricket_to_switch"},"modified":"2017-10-05T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T12:30:00","slug":"big-ant-studios-would-love-to-bring-ashes-cricket-to-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/big-ant-studios-would-love-to-bring-ashes-cricket-to-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ant Studios Would Love To Bring Ashes Cricket To Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Big Ant CEO\u00a0Ross Symons is keen to bring the studio&#8217;s new <strong>Ashes Cricket<\/strong> game to the Switch, but it seems like Nintendo isn&#8217;t returning his calls.<\/p>\n<p>Ashes Cricket has been confirmed for PS4, Xbox One and PC, but Symons feels like it would also be a <em>perfect<\/em> fit for Switch:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I would love to do the Switch; the Switch is made for this. There\u2019s nothing like Cricket and using something like the Switch where you have the motion controllers \u2013 it just makes sense.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, he admits that while Big Ant has approached Nintendo about bringing the game to the system, it hasn&#8217;t had the reaction it perhaps expected:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately I did reach out to Nintendo but it didn\u2019t get much of a response. We\u2019ve made games for Nintendo systems in the past, but I really hope we can support the Switch because it really does make a lot of sense, especially with motion controllers and cricket going together.\u00a0A little bit of that is up to Nintendo \u2013 we need to get someone from Nintendo who wants a cricket game on their system and then we\u2019re up for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Would you like to see Ashes Cricket on your Switch? Do you fancy swinging those Joy-Con around for batting and bowling? Are you keen to get all &#8220;silly midwicket&#8221; with your friends and relatives? Leave a comment to let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Big Ant CEO\u00a0Ross Symons is keen to bring the studio&#8217;s new Ashes Cricket game to the Switch, but it seems like Nintendo isn&#8217;t returning his calls. Ashes Cricket has been confirmed for PS4, Xbox One and PC, but Symons feels like it would also be a perfect fit for Switch: I would love [&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-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}