{"id":55996,"date":"2018-10-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/10\/sneaky_ninja_developer_wont_leave_wii_u_fans_hanging_after_waiting_for_so_long"},"modified":"2018-10-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T00:00:00","slug":"sneaky-ninja-developer-wont-leave-wii-u-fans-hanging-after-waiting-for-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/sneaky-ninja-developer-wont-leave-wii-u-fans-hanging-after-waiting-for-so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Sneaky Ninja Developer Won&#8217;t Leave Wii U Fans Hanging After Waiting For So Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93e798118ad95\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93e798118ad95\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Sneaky Ninja IMG1\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93e798118ad95\/sneaky-ninja-img1.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/93e798118ad95\/sneaky-ninja-img1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sneaky Ninja IMG1\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you were about during the Wii U era, you might <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2015\/02\/sneaky_ninja_infiltrates_kickstarter\">recall<\/a> a 2015 Kickstarter project for the 2D stealth platformer <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/sneaky_ninja\">Sneaky Ninja<\/a><\/strong>. After a successful campaign, the plan was to <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2016\/10\/sneaky_ninja_stealthily_targets_wii_u_eshop_early_next_year\">release<\/a> it on Nintendo&#8217;s latest system at the time, but this never actually happened.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2018, and the game&#8217;s developer Starfall Studios &#8211; a &#8220;mostly&#8221; one-man indie team &#8211; has revealed the game will be making the switch across to Nintendo&#8217;s new hybrid platform. Longtime backers will still receive a copy of the game for the Wii U. The most recent Kickstarter update revealed existing backers would also have the option to change their pledge from either the Wii U or Steam versions to the shiny new Nintendo Switch version.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Yes, Sneaky Ninja is still releasing on Wii U! If that seems weird to you, you&#8217;d be surprised how many people haven&#8217;t upgraded, and I won&#8217;t leave them hanging after waiting so long!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As for a release date, here&#8217;s what the developer had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No, still no solid release date, but I&#8217;m working as hard as I can to hit early 2019 &#8212; you know by now how chronically bad I am at estimating release dates though. The added Switch development has already taken up a bit of time and will take up more time in the future, but it hopefully won&#8217;t be too much extra work. Either way hopefully you agree it&#8217;s worth it!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In celebration of the game&#8217;s eventual release, a brand new trailer has been uploaded. Take a look below:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Do you remember Sneaky Ninja from the days of the Wii U? Did you back this game? Have you been waiting for its release? Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were about during the Wii U era, you might recall a 2015 Kickstarter project for the 2D stealth platformer Sneaky Ninja. After a successful campaign, the plan was to release it on Nintendo&#8217;s latest system at the time, but this never actually happened. Fast forward to 2018, and the game&#8217;s developer Starfall Studios [&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-55996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55996","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=55996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}