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title: "Rainway App status update"
url: "https://www.nintendoreporters.com/en/news/nintendo-switch/rainway-app-status-update/"
description: "The developers behind the intriguing Rainway application have announced that it is not in active development for the Nintendo Switch platform."
author: "Patrick Dankers"
published at: "2018-09-08 21:15:04"
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Rainway App status update | Nintendo Switch News | NintendoReporters

 [![Rainway App status update](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/rainway-app-status-update.jpg "Rainway App status update")](https://www.nintendoreporters.com/storage/files/rainway-app-status-update.jpg)The developers behind the intriguing Rainway application have announced that it is not in active development for the Nintendo Switch platform.

## [](#reasons-for-inactivity)Reasons for inactivity

The team says this is because they have not received approval from Nintendo to continue the project. Once Nintendo is onboard then development will presumably resume.

> We are currently actively developing Rainway for Android and the Xbox One. The Switch is not in active development as we have not received approval from Nintendo to do so yet. When we have an update, one will be posted.
>
> — Rainway ? (@RainwayApp) [September 3, 2018](https://twitter.com/RainwayApp/status/1036722334747389952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> We built technical demos as a proof of concept to show it could work. That version of Rainway on the Switch is limited and cannot be progressed any further. Thus we are not actively developing it.
>
> — Rainway ? (@RainwayApp) [September 3, 2018](https://twitter.com/RainwayApp/status/1036723252020703232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

So yay … proof of concept but a somewhat dead end?

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