{"id":91243,"date":"2019-04-01T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/id_software_has_no_plans_for_rage_2_on_the_nintendo_switch_right_now"},"modified":"2019-04-01T23:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T23:30:00","slug":"id-software-has-no-plans-for-rage-2-on-the-nintendo-switch-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/01\/id-software-has-no-plans-for-rage-2-on-the-nintendo-switch-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"id Software Has &#8220;No Plans&#8221; For Rage 2 On The Nintendo Switch Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/346ad76496546\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/346ad76496546\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"RAGE 2 IMG3\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/346ad76496546\/rage-2-img3.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/346ad76496546\/rage-2-img3.900x.jpg\" alt=\"RAGE 2 IMG3\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Last August, around the time of QuakeCon, id Software Studio Director Tim Willits said <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/rage_2\/news\">Rage 2<\/a><\/strong> was being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/08\/id_software_evaluating_if_rage_2_would_be_possible_on_switch\">considered<\/a> for the Switch. In February this year, Willits provided an update, explaining how id and Bethesda were &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/02\/id_software_and_bethesda_still_linvestigatingr_if_rage_2_would_be_possible_on_switch\">still investigating<\/a>&#8221; a potential Switch release.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to the month of April and Willits has now made another comment about the possibilities of Rage 2 coming to the Switch, during an interview with DualShockers at PAX East 2019. According to the id Software Studio Director, there are some challenges with the technology, but there are &#8220;no plans&#8221; for Rage 2 on the Switch at the moment.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWell, we\u2019ve been looking into it. It\u2019s just the technology, there are some challenges, but we\u2019re always looking for future platforms and future people to work with. So, we like to investigate, but we have no plans for that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Compared to his previous statements, at least it&#8217;s no longer a case of wondering if this game will be announced for the Switch in the near future.<\/p>\n<p><em>Was Rage 2 a title you were hoping would make the Switch? Is DOOM and Wolfenstein enough? Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last August, around the time of QuakeCon, id Software Studio Director Tim Willits said Rage 2 was being considered for the Switch. In February this year, Willits provided an update, explaining how id and Bethesda were &#8220;still investigating&#8221; a potential Switch release. Fast forward to the month of April and Willits has now made another [&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-91243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91243","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=91243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}