{"id":5602,"date":"2017-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/time_names_nintendo_switch_as_one_of_the_best_inventions_of_2017"},"modified":"2017-11-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:00:00","slug":"time-names-nintendo-switch-as-one-of-the-best-inventions-of-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/time-names-nintendo-switch-as-one-of-the-best-inventions-of-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME Names Nintendo Switch as One of the Best Inventions of 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Switch.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/time_names_nintendo_switch_as_one_of_the_best_inventions_of_2017\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/time_names_nintendo_switch_as_one_of_the_best_inventions_of_2017\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Switch.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>TIME magazine has a certain level of prestige, and so when it does its end-of-year lists they get circulated and seen a lot. It&#8217;s a nice win for Nintendo, then, that the Switch has been named as one of the 25 Best Inventions of 2017 by the publication.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another reminder of how positively the little system has been received, and how the simple concept (in theory) of a tablet device that intuitively plays through the TV is such a winner. It&#8217;s classic Nintendo and represents the company at its best &#8211; take established technology and a simple idea, sprinkle it with magic dust (and add Joy-Cons) and wow the world. It&#8217;s one of the reasons so many follow and adore the company.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice honour for the Switch, though we will say the list is pretty erratic. It outlines transformative technology like a craft that can explore Mars and sustainable crops, but also features fidget spinners and an <strong>$80\u00a0<\/strong>self-heating coffee mug.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, well done Nintendo Switch, we love ya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIME magazine has a certain level of prestige, and so when it does its end-of-year lists they get circulated and seen a lot. It&#8217;s a nice win for Nintendo, then, that the Switch has been named as one of the 25 Best Inventions of 2017 by the publication. It&#8217;s another reminder of how positively the [&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-5602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602","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=5602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}