{"id":43914,"date":"2018-01-25T03:08:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T10:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-nintendo-switch-is-a-hit-and-game-developers-are-flocking-to-the-console\/"},"modified":"2018-01-25T03:08:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T10:08:50","slug":"the-nintendo-switch-is-a-hit-and-game-developers-are-flocking-to-the-console","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-nintendo-switch-is-a-hit-and-game-developers-are-flocking-to-the-console\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Switch is a hit, and game developers are flocking to the console"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/akrales_171025_2091_0013.0.jpg?w=900\"><\/p>\n<p>The hot console topic of 2017 for the games industry may have been about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/1\/12\/14230120\/game-developers-survey-ps4-pro-project-scorpio\">mid-generation<\/a>, but this year the focus is on Nintendo \u2014 specifically, the Nintendo Switch. 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