{"id":15794,"date":"2018-03-23T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/donkey_kong_country_tropical_freezes_switch_file_is_almost_half_the_size_of_the_wii_u_version"},"modified":"2018-03-23T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T10:30:00","slug":"donkey-kong-country-tropical-freezes-switch-file-is-almost-half-the-size-of-the-wii-u-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/23\/donkey-kong-country-tropical-freezes-switch-file-is-almost-half-the-size-of-the-wii-u-version\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze&#8217;s Switch File Is Almost Half The Size Of The Wii U Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/donkey_kong_country_tropical_freezes_switch_file_is_almost_half_the_size_of_the_wii_u_version\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/donkey_kong_country_tropical_freezes_switch_file_is_almost_half_the_size_of_the_wii_u_version\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>An update on the Japanese eShop listing for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze\">Donkey Kong Country:\u00a0Tropical Freeze<\/a><\/strong> on Switch has revealed a rather interesting fact about the upcoming port: it&#8217;s file size is 6.6GB, making it almost half the size of the version that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu\/donkey_kong_country_tropical_freeze\">appeared on Wii U in 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this could be an error, but if Nintendo has managed to find a way to reduce the size of the game without skimping on any features or quality it bodes very well for similar ports in the future. Japanese pre-orders can now be placed on the Japanese eShop as well.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has also unveiled some new trailers, complete with plenty of gameplay footage from the Switch update. You can check them all out below in one easy-to-digest little video.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Let us know what you make of all this Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze news? Will you be playing the Switch version or was the Wii U enough for you? Let us know, yeah?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An update on the Japanese eShop listing for Donkey Kong Country:\u00a0Tropical Freeze on Switch has revealed a rather interesting fact about the upcoming port: it&#8217;s file size is 6.6GB, making it almost half the size of the version that appeared on Wii U in 2014. Of course, this could be an error, but if Nintendo [&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-15794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15794","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=15794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}