{"id":9748,"date":"2018-01-07T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendos_damon_baker_hints_at_an_even_bigger_year_for_switch_in_2018"},"modified":"2018-01-07T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T22:00:00","slug":"nintendos-damon-baker-hints-at-an-even-bigger-year-for-switch-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/01\/07\/nintendos-damon-baker-hints-at-an-even-bigger-year-for-switch-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s Damon Baker Hints At An Even Bigger Year For Switch in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news3.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendos_damon_baker_hints_at_an_even_bigger_year_for_switch_in_2018\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendos_damon_baker_hints_at_an_even_bigger_year_for_switch_in_2018\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Only a week into 2018, and we&#8217;re already getting weak at the knees as Nintendo Switch racks up more and more positive headlines &#8211; including its <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/nintendo_switch_has_already_surpassed_wii_us_lifetime_sales_in_japan\">recent conquest of Wii U&#8217;s lifetime sales in Japan<\/a> &#8211; but will the rest of the year hold for the Big N&#8217;s game changing console? Well, if one tweet from a big name at Nintendo itself is to be believed then the next 12 months could be even more successful than 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The social media post came from none other than Damon Baker, the head honcho of third-party titles and &#8216;nindies&#8217;, who responded to one gamer&#8217;s screenshot of his Switch menu (and all the games featured on it, including <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/rocket_league\">Rocket League<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/l_a_noire\">LA Noire<\/a><\/strong>). Could he be trolling us? Is he trying to drum up a bit of hype? The mind boggles&#8230;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I know, right?! I think you&#8217;re going to like 2018 as well! \ud83d\ude0e<\/span>\u2014 Damon Baker (@DWBakes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DWBakes\/status\/949021027564109824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Okay, well <em>maybe<\/em> we&#8217;re reading a little too much into a small exchange on Twitter, but you get the sense everyone at Nintendo is as excited about Switch&#8217;s next chapter as we all are. Do you think 2018 will be a big year for Nintendo and Switch? Share some your predictions with us below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a week into 2018, and we&#8217;re already getting weak at the knees as Nintendo Switch racks up more and more positive headlines &#8211; including its recent conquest of Wii U&#8217;s lifetime sales in Japan &#8211; but will the rest of the year hold for the Big N&#8217;s game changing console? Well, if one tweet [&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-9748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748","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=9748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}