{"id":91813,"date":"2019-04-12T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/its_official_octopath_traveler_is_no_longer_exclusive_to_the_nintendo_switch"},"modified":"2019-04-12T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T02:00:00","slug":"its-official-octopath-traveler-is-no-longer-exclusive-to-the-nintendo-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/04\/12\/its-official-octopath-traveler-is-no-longer-exclusive-to-the-nintendo-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Official, Octopath Traveler Is No Longer Exclusive To The Nintendo Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8323118dc7585\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8323118dc7585\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Octopath Traveler\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8323118dc7585\/octopath-traveler.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/8323118dc7585\/octopath-traveler.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Octopath Traveler\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>When Square Enix announced <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/03\/octopath_traveler_makes_the_leap_to_mobile_new_console_game_will_take_a_little_while_longer\">Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent<\/a><\/strong> for mobile devices in March, it raised questions about how long <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/octopath_traveler\">Octopath Traveler<\/a><\/strong> would remain exclusive to the Nintendo Switch. Roughly a month later, a Korean rating for a PC version of the original outing was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/04\/octopath_travelers_switch_exclusivity_might_be_coming_to_an_end\">spotted<\/a> online, seemingly confirming the inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now been confirmed by Square Enix the game will no longer be exclusive to the Switch. In a deleted <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/square-enix-games.com\/en_GB\/news\/octopath-traveler-pc\">blog post<\/a> (thanks, Gematsu), the Japanese publisher revealed the JRPG would be released on 7th June on Valve&#8217;s Steam platform.<\/p>\n<p>Octopath Traveler was originally released on Nintendo&#8217;s hybrid platform in July 2018. For a number of months, Square Enix had trouble keeping up with the demand for the game. Unsurprisingly, this isn&#8217;t the first time the Switch has hosted a timed-exclusive. A Korean rating for <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_bomberman_r\">Super Bomberman R<\/a><\/strong> on the PlayStation 4 was also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/korean_rating_suggests_that_super_bomberman_r_is_jumping_ship_to_ps4\">discovered<\/a> a year after the launch of the Switch version.<\/p>\n<p><em>How do you feel about Octopath Traveler being ported across to the PC? Do you think this game should have remained a Nintendo Switch exclusive? Or are you glad more people will be able to play this game now? Tell us down below.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Square Enix announced Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent for mobile devices in March, it raised questions about how long Octopath Traveler would remain exclusive to the Nintendo Switch. Roughly a month later, a Korean rating for a PC version of the original outing was spotted online, seemingly confirming the inevitable. It&#8217;s now been [&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-91813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91813","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=91813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}