{"id":20993,"date":"2018-05-18T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T09:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/owlboy_on_nintendo_switch_made_a_profit_within_24_hours_of_launch"},"modified":"2018-05-18T09:35:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T09:35:00","slug":"owlboy-on-nintendo-switch-made-a-profit-within-24-hours-of-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/owlboy-on-nintendo-switch-made-a-profit-within-24-hours-of-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Owlboy On Nintendo Switch Made A Profit Within 24 Hours Of Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/owlboy_on_nintendo_switch_made_a_profit_within_24_hours_of_launch\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/owlboy_on_nintendo_switch_made_a_profit_within_24_hours_of_launch\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/owlboy_on_nintendo_switch_made_a_profit_within_24_hours_of_launch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/owlboy_on_nintendo_switch_made_a_profit_within_24_hours_of_launch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news2.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/owlboy\"><strong>Owlboy<\/strong><\/a> here at Nintendo Life &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/switch-eshop\/owlboy\">just check out Ryan&#8217;s glowing 9\/10 review for proof of that<\/a> &#8211; and it turns out a <em>lot<\/em> of you do, too. So well, in fact, that the Nintendo Switch port turned a profit for developer D-Pad Studio within 24 hours of launch.<\/p>\n<p>The news <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/NintendoSwitch\/comments\/8k578l\/comment\/dz4xvlk\/?st=JHAQNKNQ&amp;sh=c9e5e122\">was revealed in a recent AMA on Reddit<\/a> by programmer and CEO J-Remi Madsen, with Switch proving an ideal home for his colourful platforming love letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8.34412955466\">\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t have numbers from remaining platforms yet, but \u2018Owlboy\u2019 turned a profit within 24h of it\u2019s launch on the Switch alone, taking us by complete surprise! @<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"a4cbe4\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a> It bodes really well for funding our future projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Have you played Owlboy on Nintendo Switch? Do you think it made a good fit for Nintendo&#8217;s hybrid console? Share your thoughts with us below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We love Owlboy here at Nintendo Life &#8211; just check out Ryan&#8217;s glowing 9\/10 review for proof of that &#8211; and it turns out a lot of you do, too. So well, in fact, that the Nintendo Switch port turned a profit for developer D-Pad Studio within 24 hours of launch. The news was revealed [&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-20993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993","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=20993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}