{"id":71261,"date":"2018-12-23T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/nintendo_had_some_of_the_most_talked_about_games_on_twitter_in_2018"},"modified":"2018-12-23T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T15:00:00","slug":"nintendo-had-some-of-the-most-talked-about-games-on-twitter-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/nintendo-had-some-of-the-most-talked-about-games-on-twitter-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Had Some Of The Most Talked About Games On Twitter In 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/517aa8ca7cb78\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/517aa8ca7cb78\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Splatoon 2 Team Img\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/517aa8ca7cb78\/splatoon-2-team-img.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/517aa8ca7cb78\/splatoon-2-team-img.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Splatoon 2 Team Img\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Last weekend, YouTube <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/12\/pokemon_and_nintendo_labo_feature_in_youtubes_top_trending_gaming_video_list\">revealed<\/a> two Switch game trailers were part of the top viewed gaming video list in 2018. This weekend, Twitter has now shared its own list of the most-tweeted video games in the US this year. Interestingly, four Nintendo franchises featured. These included Pok\u00e9mon, Super Mario, Super Smash Bros. and Splatoon.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Epic&#8217;s free-to-play battle royale <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/fortnite\">Fortnite<\/a><\/strong> took out the top spot and there was also a mention of <strong>Call of Duty<\/strong>, <strong>Grand Theft Auto<\/strong>, <strong>Overwatch<\/strong> and a few popular sports titles. Take a look at the full list below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cFortnite\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cCall of Duty\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOverwatch\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cPok\u00e9mon\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEA Sports Madden NFL\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cNBA 2K\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSuper Mario\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSuper Smash Brothers\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cSplatoon\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGrand Theft Auto\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Twitter didn&#8217;t clarify, we&#8217;re going to guess the Nintendo games being talked about in most cases were <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_2\">Splatoon 2<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a><\/strong> \/ <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_party\">Super Mario Party<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon: Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! and Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/a><\/strong> \/ <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong> GO<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Are you at all surprised to hear these Nintendo titles were some of the most tweeted about games in 2018 or did you expect this after hearing about all the successful game sales throughout the year? Tell us below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, YouTube revealed two Switch game trailers were part of the top viewed gaming video list in 2018. This weekend, Twitter has now shared its own list of the most-tweeted video games in the US this year. Interestingly, four Nintendo franchises featured. These included Pok\u00e9mon, Super Mario, Super Smash Bros. and Splatoon. Once again, [&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-71261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71261","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=71261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}