{"id":52362,"date":"2018-10-03T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/limited_run_games_set_to_release_first_and_only_wii_u_game_lost_a_lot_of_money_making_it_happen"},"modified":"2018-10-03T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T16:15:00","slug":"limited-run-games-set-to-release-first-and-only-wii-u-game-lost-a-lot-of-money-making-it-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/03\/limited-run-games-set-to-release-first-and-only-wii-u-game-lost-a-lot-of-money-making-it-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited Run Games Set To Release First And Only Wii U Game, Lost &#8220;A Lot&#8221; Of Money Making It Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/92549c35f5dbc\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/92549c35f5dbc\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Oh Wii U, you poor, poor thing\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/92549c35f5dbc\/oh-wii-u-you-poor-poor-thing.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/92549c35f5dbc\/oh-wii-u-you-poor-poor-thing.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Oh Wii U, you poor, poor thing\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Oh Wii U, you poor, poor thing<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Limited Run Games, one of the few publishers dedicated to releasing much-loved indie games to the market in physical form, looks set to release its first and only Wii U game.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes from the following tweet shared by Josh Fairhurst, owner of the publisher, which tells the sorry tale of &#8220;a lot&#8221; of lost money and struggles along the way to make it happen.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After a year of struggle and *a lot* of lost money, our only Wii U release will arrive at our office this month. We won&#8217;t make anything on it (or even come close to breaking even), but at least it&#8217;ll actually see the light of day.<\/span>\u2014 Josh Fairhurst (@LimitedRunJosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LimitedRunJosh\/status\/1047476892528513024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>At the moment, the tweet is simply acting as a tease, with Fairhurst yet to spill the beans on what the game in question might be. If you&#8217;re a fan of your limited physical releases, though, this could well be one to look out for &#8211; it probably doesn&#8217;t get much more &#8216;limited&#8217; than this.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have a favourite Wii U title that&#8217;s just begging to be released on a physical disc? Feel free to scream out your love for all things Wii U in the comments &#8211; it could do with cheering up anyway.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh Wii U, you poor, poor thing Limited Run Games, one of the few publishers dedicated to releasing much-loved indie games to the market in physical form, looks set to release its first and only Wii U game. The news comes from the following tweet shared by Josh Fairhurst, owner of the publisher, which tells [&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-52362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52362","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=52362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}