{"id":47754,"date":"2018-09-14T19:25:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/326568"},"modified":"2018-09-14T19:25:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T19:25:00","slug":"assassins-creed-for-switch-adopts-pay-as-you-play-pricing-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/14\/assassins-creed-for-switch-adopts-pay-as-you-play-pricing-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Assassin&#8217;s Creed for Switch adopts pay-as-you-play pricing in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey<\/em> is coming to the Switch in Japan as a\u00a0&#8220;Cloud Edition&#8221;, although there&#8217;s no word yet if the game will be released in a similar format\u00a0globally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Announced during yesterday&#8217;s Nintendo Direct, <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey<\/em> will launch on the Switch October 5, granting players two years worth of access for\u00a0\u00a58400 (~$75). Players may also choose to pay a daily rate of\u00a0\u00a5730\u00a0(~$6.50).<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time a game has been published\u00a0through\u00a0cloud streaming, as Capcom\u00a0brought\u00a0<em>Resident Evil 7: Biohazard\u00a0<\/em>to the Switch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/318465\/Capcom_bringing_Resident_Evil_7_to_Switch_with_experimental_pricing.php\">earlier this year using a similar model<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For <em>Resident Evil<\/em>, players need to download\u00a0a 45MB base game application before streaming the rest of the title from the cloud, and it can be assumed that\u00a0<em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey<\/em> will follow suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey is coming to the Switch in Japan as a\u00a0&#8220;Cloud Edition&#8221;, although there&#8217;s no word yet if the game will be released in a similar format\u00a0globally.\u00a0 Announced during yesterday&#8217;s Nintendo Direct, Assassin&#8217;s Creed Odyssey will launch on the Switch October 5, granting players two years worth of access for\u00a0\u00a58400 (~$75). Players may also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47754","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=47754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}