{"id":2209,"date":"2017-10-12T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/square_enix_explains_why_the_secret_of_mana_remake_isnt_coming_to_switch"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T12:30:00","slug":"square-enix-explains-why-the-secret-of-mana-remake-isnt-coming-to-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/12\/square-enix-explains-why-the-secret-of-mana-remake-isnt-coming-to-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Enix Explains Why The Secret Of Mana Remake Isn&#8217;t Coming To Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Sword at the ready\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/square_enix_explains_why_the_secret_of_mana_remake_isnt_coming_to_switch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/10\/square_enix_explains_why_the_secret_of_mana_remake_isnt_coming_to_switch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sword at the ready\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Square Enix is currently hard at work remaking one of its most beloved JRPGs, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/secret_of_mana\">Secret of Mana<\/a><\/strong>. This SNES classic is right up there with <strong>Zelda<\/strong> and <strong>Final Fantasy<\/strong> in terms of player adoration, but amazingly the remake <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> coming to Switch.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.redbull.com\/int-en\/secret-of-mana\">Red Bull<\/a>,\u00a0producer Masaru Oyamada explains why Nintendo&#8217;s console is missing out:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Development for the title began before the Switch was announced, so it was definitely beyond our expectations to see the level of anticipation for the release on the platform grow this much.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, he didn&#8217;t shut the door completely:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In terms of our current circumstance, we are unable to immediately state that this will become available on the Switch, but we hope to continue listening to the various requests from our fans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly,\u00a0Oyamada also seemed to hint that\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/seiken_densetsu_3\">Seiken Densetsu 3<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 AKA: <strong>Secret of Mana 2\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 could potentially get a western release at some point:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We do not have any information that can be shared at this moment in time. I, too, would definitely like to do something about this task, so I would be grateful for everyone\u2019s continued support for the Mana series.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Switch fans will have to make do with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/seiken_densetsu_collection\">Seiken Densetsu Collection<\/a><\/strong> for the time being, although sadly that still hasn&#8217;t been confirmed for western release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Square Enix is currently hard at work remaking one of its most beloved JRPGs, Secret of Mana. This SNES classic is right up there with Zelda and Final Fantasy in terms of player adoration, but amazingly the remake isn&#8217;t coming to Switch. Speaking to Red Bull,\u00a0producer Masaru Oyamada explains why Nintendo&#8217;s console is missing out: [&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-2209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209","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=2209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}