{"id":4969,"date":"2016-10-30T00:19:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T00:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2016-10-30T00:19:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-30T00:19:31","slug":"yo-kai-watch-smartphone-release-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/yo-kai-watch-smartphone-release-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Yo-kai Watch for Smartphone&#8217; Release Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three months ago<strong> Level-5<\/strong> announced that it would be releasing the hit Nintendo 3DS game <strong>Yo-kai Watch<\/strong> for <strong>iOS\/Android<\/strong> in Japan,\u300c\u5996\u602a\u30a6\u30a9\u30c3\u30c1for\u30b9\u30de\u30fc\u30c8\u30d5\u30a9\u30f3\u300d(<strong>&#8220;Yo-kai Watch for Smartphone&#8221;<\/strong>). The mobile version will mimic the original 3DS game layout and mechanics, including the top and bottom screen display.<\/p>\n<p>The port was scheduled to be released <strong>Autumn 2016<\/strong>, but has been <strong>delayed until early 2017<\/strong> according to a new press release, Wednesday. Level-5 explains that this delay of release is due to the desire to increase the quality of the game as well as add new, original mechanics and features. Most notable among the new features is the addition of <strong>online battling<\/strong> capability, which was not available in the first Yo-kai Watch game!<\/p>\n<p><a href=index-1999.html data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4973\" src=index-2000.html alt=\"yokai watch for smartphone 1\" width=\"238\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.46-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.46-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.46-1024x562.png 1024w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.46-375x206.png 375w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.46.png 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><\/a> <a href=index-2001.html data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4972\" src=index-2002.html alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-29-at-18-09-23\" width=\"239\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.23-300x164.png 300w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.23-768x421.png 768w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.23-1024x561.png 1024w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.23-375x206.png 375w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.23.png 1312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a> <a href=index-2003.html data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4974\" src=index-2004.html alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-29-at-18-09-59\" width=\"234\" height=\"131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.59-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.59-768x430.png 768w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.59-1024x573.png 1024w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.59-375x210.png 375w, https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-29-at-18.09.59.png 1316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=index-2005.html target=\"_blank\">Original Press Release<\/a> &#8211; <a href=index-2006.html target=\"_blank\">Official Website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three months ago Level-5 announced that it would be releasing the hit Nintendo 3DS game Yo-kai Watch for iOS\/Android in Japan,\u300c\u5996\u602a\u30a6\u30a9\u30c3\u30c1for\u30b9\u30de\u30fc\u30c8\u30d5\u30a9\u30f3\u300d(&#8220;Yo-kai Watch for Smartphone&#8221;). The mobile version will mimic the original 3DS game layout and mechanics, including the top and bottom screen display. The port was scheduled to be released Autumn 2016, but has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":4971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[264,92,385,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/watchofyokai.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}