{"id":71405,"date":"2019-10-04T03:12:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T10:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/blizzard-has-wanted-to-port-overwatch-since-literally-the-day-the-switch-came-out\/"},"modified":"2019-10-04T03:12:24","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T10:12:24","slug":"blizzard-has-wanted-to-port-overwatch-since-literally-the-day-the-switch-came-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/blizzard-has-wanted-to-port-overwatch-since-literally-the-day-the-switch-came-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard has wanted to port Overwatch since \u2018literally the day the Switch came out\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Like many people, Jeff Kaplan spent much of March 3rd, 2017, lost in the fantasy realm of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild <\/em>on the Nintendo Switch. As the game director for Blizzard\u2019s colorful team-based shooter Overwatch<\/em>, Kaplan\u2019s fascination with the device naturally turned a bit more serious: he wondered what his own game would be like on the handheld console. <\/p>\n

\u201cLiterally the day the Switch came out, we were thinking about it,\u201d Kaplan tells The Verge<\/em>. \u201cI remember immediately talking to people around the office saying, \u2018What would it take for us to be here?\u2019\u201d It took some time for that to happen. Blizzard started by porting Diablo III<\/em> to the Switch late last year, and work on a portable version of Overwatch<\/em> started a little over…<\/p>\n

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Like many people, Jeff Kaplan spent much of March 3rd, 2017, lost in the fantasy realm of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on the Nintendo Switch. As the game director for Blizzard\u2019s colorful team-based shooter Overwatch, Kaplan\u2019s fascination with the device naturally turned a bit more serious: he wondered what his own… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":71406,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[174,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-media","category-gaming"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t