{"id":8300,"date":"2022-10-11T11:16:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T11:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/random-tired-of-waiting-one-fan-got-genshin-impact-on-switch-via-an-android-emulator\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:16:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T11:16:16","slug":"random-tired-of-waiting-one-fan-got-genshin-impact-on-switch-via-an-android-emulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/11\/random-tired-of-waiting-one-fan-got-genshin-impact-on-switch-via-an-android-emulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Tired Of Waiting, One Fan Got Genshin Impact On Switch Via An Android Emulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Where&#8217;s the official port, huh?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/genshin_impact\">Genshin Impact<\/a> was first released back in 2020, you would be forgiven for thinking that it would be a dead cert that the open-world RPG (*cough* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">Breath of the Wild<\/a> clone *cough*) would be making its way to Switch at some point in the future. You would be right, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/remember_that_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_clone_that_killed_a_ps4_its_coming_to_switch\">will come to Switch<\/a> at some point in the future&#8230; probably.<\/p>\n<p>Tired of waiting for updates, one fan on Reddit has taken the porting process into their own hands and has managed to get a version of the game up and <em>just about<\/em> running on the Nintendo console. In the video (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/genshin-impact-nintendo-switch\/\">GameRant<\/a>) you can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/wingsofthygiant\/\">u\/wingsofthygiant<\/a> managing to load up the title on Switch and, after a pretty meaty loading time, even run around a little.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/random-tired-of-waiting-one-fan-got-genshin-impact-on-switch-via-an-android-emulator\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Random: Tired Of Waiting, One Fan Got Genshin Impact On Switch Via An Android Emulator<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Where&#8217;s the official port, huh?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/genshin_impact\">Genshin Impact<\/a> was first released back in 2020, you would be forgiven for thinking that it would be a dead cert that the open-world RPG (*cough* <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">Breath of the Wild<\/a> clone *cough*) would be making its way to Switch at some point in the future. You would be right, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/remember_that_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_clone_that_killed_a_ps4_its_coming_to_switch\">will come to Switch<\/a> at some point in the future&#8230; probably.<\/p>\n<p>Tired of waiting for updates, one fan on Reddit has taken the porting process into their own hands and has managed to get a version of the game up and <em>just about<\/em> running on the Nintendo console. In the video (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/genshin-impact-nintendo-switch\/\">GameRant<\/a>) you can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/wingsofthygiant\/\">u\/wingsofthygiant<\/a> managing to load up the title on Switch and, after a pretty meaty loading time, even run around a little.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/random-tired-of-waiting-one-fan-got-genshin-impact-on-switch-via-an-android-emulator\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}