{"id":584941,"date":"2026-03-17T17:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/genshin-impact-for-nintendo-switch-is-still-in-development-say-mihoyo"},"modified":"2026-03-17T17:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T17:41:04","slug":"genshin-impact-for-nintendo-switch-is-still-in-development-say-mihoyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/genshin-impact-for-nintendo-switch-is-still-in-development-say-mihoyo\/","title":{"rendered":"Genshin Impact for Nintendo Switch is still in development, say miHoYo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/genshin-impact-for-nintendo-switch-is-still-in-development-say-mihoyo.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/genshin-impact\">Genshin Impact<\/a> has found significant success since its launch on consoles, PC, and mobile. The title was also initially set to come to Nintendo Switch back in 2020. However, we&#8217;re now well into 2022 and are yet to see any signs of the macha game on the handheld console.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had any update from miHoYo, too, so the folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/gonintendo.com\/contents\/3068-exclusive-no-genshin-impact-s-switch-version-isn-t-cancelled\">GoNintendo<\/a> took it upon themselves to ask miHoYo whether or not fans should still expect to see the free-to-play game on Nintendo Switch. Needless to say, they didn&#8217;t get too far in terms of any concrete or exciting answers. However, we do know that the efforts to bring Genshin Impact to Nintendo Switch aren&#8217;t yet over.<\/p>\n<p>Given that recent Genshin Impact media has failed to mention the Nintendo Switch whatsoever, fans became a little concerned that perhaps, after all, Genshin may not come to the Switch. The neglect for the Nintendo Switch was rectified when video descriptions were updated to mention it, but the damage had already been done for worried fans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/genshin-impact-for-nintendo-switch-is-still-in-development-say-mihoyo\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/genshin-impact-for-nintendo-switch-is-still-in-development-say-mihoyo\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Genshin Impact has found significant success since its launch on consoles, PC, and mobile. The title was also initially set to come to Nintendo Switch back in 2020. However, we&#8217;re now well into 2022 and are yet to see any signs of the macha game on the handheld console. It&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve had any update from miHoYo, too, so the folks at GoNintendo took it upon themselves to ask miHoYo whether or not fans should still expect to see the free-to-play game on Nintendo Switch. Needless to say, they didn&#8217;t get too far in terms of any concrete or exciting answers. However, we do know that the efforts to bring Genshin Impact to Nintendo Switch aren&#8217;t yet over. Given that recent Genshin&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/genshin-impact-for-nintendo-switch-is-still-in-development-say-mihoyo\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[259,157,79,160,427,159,6837,120,21,424,59,44,45,34,6810,60,4616],"class_list":["post-584941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-action-adventure","tag-android","tag-fantasy","tag-free-to-play","tag-genshin-impact","tag-ios","tag-mihoyo-limited","tag-mobile","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-open-world","tag-pc","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-rpg","tag-story-rich","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Genshin Impact for Nintendo Switch is still in development, say miHoYo | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Genshin Impact has found significant success since its launch on consoles, PC, and mobile. 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