{"id":21739,"date":"2018-05-25T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T03:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/overwatch_producer_discusses_the_possibility_of_bringing_the_game_to_switch"},"modified":"2018-05-25T03:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T03:50:00","slug":"overwatch-producer-discusses-the-possibility-of-bringing-the-game-to-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/25\/overwatch-producer-discusses-the-possibility-of-bringing-the-game-to-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwatch Producer Discusses The Possibility Of Bringing The Game To Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/overwatch_producer_discusses_the_possibility_of_bringing_the_game_to_switch\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/overwatch_producer_discusses_the_possibility_of_bringing_the_game_to_switch\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Genji\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/overwatch_producer_discusses_the_possibility_of_bringing_the_game_to_switch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/overwatch_producer_discusses_the_possibility_of_bringing_the_game_to_switch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Genji\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>One of the biggest shooters in the game industry right now is <strong>Overwatch<\/strong>, Blizzard\u2019s popular hero-based shooter. Given the optimistic air of the game and the colorful cast that supports it, Overwatch seems like it\u2019d be a good fit for Nintendo audiences, but Blizzard has been evasive in the past when discussing the possibility of the game showing up on Nintendo\u2019s hybrid. For the upcoming second anniversary of Overwatch, Gamespot sat down with Blizzard to discuss the game\u2019s past and future, and the question of a Switch port was raised once again.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Hawley, a senior game producer on Overwatch, addressed the question about the Switch, giving a rather runaround answer of \u201cno, but never say never.\u201d Here\u2019s what he said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p>I think it is one of those things that we constantly evaluate. Where technology is going; where the industry is going. There are challenges in running on the platforms that we\u2019re not already on, otherwise we would probably already be on some of those other platforms. We\u2019ll see where things go. Certainly, there is a huge number of people out there who have Nintendo Switch and mobile phones, but right now, the core development team is focused on supporting the live game.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, given Nintendo\u2019s admittedly half-rate online infrastructure, it seems like the multiplayer-only Overwatch could be rather ill fit for the platform. That being said, the launch of the paid Nintendo Switch Online service could perhaps bring improvements in this area.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Will Overwatch ever show up on the Switch? What other shooters do you think would fit well on the Switch? Share your thoughts in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest shooters in the game industry right now is Overwatch, Blizzard\u2019s popular hero-based shooter. Given the optimistic air of the game and the colorful cast that supports it, Overwatch seems like it\u2019d be a good fit for Nintendo audiences, but Blizzard has been evasive in the past when discussing the possibility of [&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-21739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739","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=21739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}