Nintendo asked Cyanogen to create a system for their Nintendo Switch

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That the Nintendo Switch happens to be a vitamin tablet is increasingly true. This does not mean that behind it it has the ingenuity, development and support of a very great company such as Nintendo. But with the passage of time, we are learning more details about the way in which this peculiar console was created that is reaping success wherever it goes. The last of all never ceases to amaze us, in fact there was already a lot of rumor about it from the beginning. The point is that the executives of Nintendo asked the guys at Cyanogen to make a custom operating system for the console, do you want to know what the response was?

We are not going to leave until the end the resolution of the mystery, or if ... The reality is that there has been a long talk of the similarity of the Nintendo Switch with the NVIDIA Shield, a tablet that effectively runs Android, on the other hand, CyanogenOS is still really an Android mod.

Well indeed, the CEO of CyanogenOS, Kirk McMaster (what a cool last name), He said a resounding "no" to the guys at Nintendo. That they were left with the desire basically. However, the story becomes much more tangled as the days go by, and that is that the charismatic CEO of CyanogenOS has left the following pearl on Twitter, responding to a user who commented on how great it would be to use Android on the Nintendo Switch:

They were considering it. Switch is one of the most modified kernels. They actually use parts of Android.

In this way, the Nintendo Switch is once again at the center of the controversy regarding a possible «hacking«. Nonetheless, Nintendo appears to have worked considerably well on this, and we will continue to keep an eye out for developments. Do not miss our tutorial on how to add new games to your Nintendo Classic Mini NES.


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