{"id":72000,"date":"2019-10-18T03:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-switch-turns-overwatch-into-a-great-second-screen-game\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T03:11:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:11:01","slug":"the-switch-turns-overwatch-into-a-great-second-screen-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/the-switch-turns-overwatch-into-a-great-second-screen-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Switch turns Overwatch into a great second-screen game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Overwatch<\/em> has finally made its way to the Nintendo Switch<\/a>, fulfilling the endless requests from me that Blizzard port its popular team shooter to Nintendo\u2019s portable console. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first mainstream shooter to make the jump to the Switch: Bethesda has ported Doom<\/em> and a few Wolfenstein<\/em> games, and of course there\u2019s Nintendo\u2019s own Splatoon<\/em> series and the ubiquitous Fortnite<\/em>. But as an exclusively online, multiplayer-based competitive team shooter, Overwatch<\/em> might be the least likely fit for the Switch, at least on paper. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve spent the last day or two playing the Switch port, and at first glance, that impression is correct. As a way to play Overwatch<\/em> seriously, the Switch port is bad. There\u2019s no other way to put it. If you\u2019re…<\/p>\n

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Overwatch has finally made its way to the Nintendo Switch, fulfilling the endless requests from me that Blizzard port its popular team shooter to Nintendo\u2019s portable console. It\u2019s not the first mainstream shooter to make the jump to the Switch: Bethesda has ported Doom and a few Wolfenstein games, and of course there\u2019s Nintendo\u2019s own… Read the full article…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72001,"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-72000","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