{"id":39797,"date":"2018-08-12T02:40:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/tomb_raider_wonrt_be_making_the_switch_anytime_soon_according_to_eidos_montreal"},"modified":"2018-08-12T02:40:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T02:40:00","slug":"tomb-raider-wont-be-making-the-switch-anytime-soon-according-to-eidos-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/08\/12\/tomb-raider-wont-be-making-the-switch-anytime-soon-according-to-eidos-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomb Raider Won\u2019t Be Making The Switch Anytime Soon, According To Eidos Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f2c07147354b6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f2c07147354b6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Shadow Of The Tomb Raider\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f2c07147354b6\/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f2c07147354b6\/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Shadow Of The Tomb Raider\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Lara Croft\u2019s latest game trilogy has revitalised her career. There\u2019s even been a new movie released earlier this year following her recent success.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/shadow-of-the-tomb-raider-for-nintendo-switch-soun\/1100-6461075\/\">GameSpot<\/a>, Eidos Montreal lead game designer Heath Smith said despite Lara&#8217;s surge in popularity she wouldn\u2019t be making the switch anytime soon, as there were currently \u201cno plans\u201d for a Nintendo version of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said he was a big fan of Nintendo\u2019s hybrid system, but felt the latest game in the trilogy series &#8211; <strong>Shadow of the Tomb Raider<\/strong> &#8211; was not suited to the platform. For now, this essentially stamps out any hopes of the series being ported across to the Switch.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The last time Lara was sighted on a Nintendo system was during the Wii generation in <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/tomb_raider_underworld\">Tomb Raider: Underworld<\/a><\/strong> and <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/tomb_raider_anniversary\"><strong>Tomb Raider: Anniversary<\/strong><\/a>. Before then,\u00a0<strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/ds\/lara_croft_tomb_raider_legend\">Tomb Raider: Legend<\/a><\/strong> was released on the DS and GameCube, and prior to this, she starred in a number of outings on the Game Boy systems.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tomb Raider previously skipped the Wii U. At the time, Crystal Dynamics&#8217; creative director Noah Hughes\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2013\/01\/crystal_dynamics_explains_why_tomb_raider_isnt_coming_to_wii_u\">explained<\/a> how a Nintendo version of the first game in the new series would require more effort than a basic port:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m always a fan of the Nintendo systems, in particular they really push interface design, and from a game design perspective it\u2019s fun to play with new interfaces. Having said that it\u2019s something that I think we would want to tailor the experience to if we were going to do it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Even though it won\u2019t be happening any time soon, would you like to see Lara Croft make a return to Nintendo platforms? Have you ever played this series? Tell us below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lara Croft\u2019s latest game trilogy has revitalised her career. There\u2019s even been a new movie released earlier this year following her recent success.\u00a0\u00a0 Speaking to GameSpot, Eidos Montreal lead game designer Heath Smith said despite Lara&#8217;s surge in popularity she wouldn\u2019t be making the switch anytime soon, as there were currently \u201cno plans\u201d for a [&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-39797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39797","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=39797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}