Two weeks after, I'm going to my brother's a couple states away so we can finally boot up Forza Horizon 2. I got Horizon 2 for him last year, and we've been waiting for vaccination to play it.
edit: Update: Got shot #2 last night. My arm hurts like heck. Heck I tell you.
NHK News reports today that Japanese people 65 years and older are now 6% vaccinated. Yeah, well, so what @WoomyNNYes!? Why does that matter? Stop boring me!
After a year of Nintendo development being handicapped, due to the covids, this statistic may mean Nintendo may have a while yet before they can work at fullregularcapacity again.
As another heads up, Japans covid surge that started back in April has continued. As a result, Japan's state of emergecy (that shut down Universal's Super Nintendo World) has lasted longer, and expaded to more prefectures - the effect of more contagious uk, and possibly indian, variants.
So, why isn't Japan farther along with vaccine progress? The reason is, Japan's medical regulatory system wanted more robust testing on japanese/asian people before approving vaccines. Beyond that, I'm not sure why their vaccine production/approval system hasn't been streamlined like some other countries.
I like big vaccines and I like them now. Booooomshakalaka!! I got my vaccine. I feel alright after my first dose, better than I thought. My arm still aches a bit though, so I stayed at home and relaxed.
@WoomyNNYes It's useful info, really! Thanks! I do wonder why Japan suspects there's different side-effects on Japanese/Asian people than... non Japanese/Asian people though. Maybe I'm misreading it, but do elaborate on that part, I'm interested...
@TheJGG While equality for people is good, there are some genetic variations that affect medical outcomes. Data appears to show asian mortality rate for covid has been lower than for western anglo populations, and they aren't quite sure if it's because genetic/race or prior exposure to SARS in the asian region in the previous decade or so.(that knowledge may be months old now, don't know if there's new light on that subject). With more tech/data in recent decades, they are discovering varying outcomes for gender & race. On occasion, it can be significant enough to justify tweaking how things are prescribed.
@WoomyNNYes sounds like an opportunity to release Mario & Sonic Coivd Olympics edition, unfortunately it’s delayed though.
They could rework Mario + Sonic Olympics to add masks & tumbleweeds, remove crowds, and replace crowd cheers with a lone cough from the audience, like when a comedian bombs
Kyoto Prefecture (Nintendo headquarters) covid state of emergency extended to June 20. After a year of the pandemic, I'm not sure how this affects Nintendo productivity. If anyone does know, please share. Also included, Osaka prefecture - where Universal's Super Nintendo World is. Note: As a country Japan is only 2-3% vaccinated.
The Japanese government decided to extend the coronavirus state of emergency for Tokyo and eight other prefectures until June 20. That's the same day emergency measures for Okinawa Prefecture are due to expire. People are especially concerned in Okinawa and Hokkaido where infections have been on the rise.
How does Okinawa have to go under state of emergency; it’s a chain of islands hundreds of kilometres off the coast of Japan! All this is inevitable so no major surprises. Makes me wonder how this’ll negatively impact the game lineup this year.
@TheJGG Anywhere there are people and cases rising, straining healthcare. I suspect the people in Okinawa have visitors and also breath air. Okinawa is tropical, southernmost Japan. I think it attracts tourism.
@TheJGG Regarding how covid affects Nintendo's game line up, I've been wondering that too. I'd love to hear nintendo's productivity quantified, or put into context, while under covid restrictions. The fact that we haven't heard specifically how covid has impacted nintendo, makes me nervous, because Nintendo probably fears that discussing it will hurt sales and stock value, possibly because it's bad news for the next year+.
As a country, Japan only has about 6% of 65+ age group vaccinated. Which means, the general working populartion, Nintendo, is possibly no better now than they were last summer. On the other hand, MAYBE? they've gotten better at working remotely? I have no idea.
I'm just trying to keep my hopes in check for Nintendo's E3 presentation.
@WoomyNNYes I mean we have Paper Mario: The Origami King, and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, but that's about it in terms of original games. I'm excited for E3 but people need to be realistic, Nintendo's been badly hit, and their notoriously secretive nature means we won't know for sure. But they may have some decent digital infrastructure in place, who knows? But we'll find out soon whether it thwacked them this year.
Even if Okinawa's a tourist destination... shouldn't people be staying at home; what happened to that?
But I'm still glad we have games to begin with, I'd rather have ports than nothing.
i dont know what the new switch update did, but it added more stability.
at least in the horse stables
kangaroos? we aint playin dat
sheep-uhsses (thats plural for more than one sheep) dey aint havin dat
otters, sea lions or something? dey aint takin dat
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As @ogo79 said, the SNS-RZ-USA is a prime giveaway that it's not a legit retail cart.
And yes, he is (usually) always right, and he is (almost) the sexiest gamer out there (not counting me) ;)
@WoomyNNYes@TheJGG
I would think that a company like Nintendo would be pretty well prepared for working remotely. The kinds of infrastructure you'd have in place to collaborate on a software development project would also allow remote work. And that same infrastructure can, and would, be used to share/collaborate all kinds of assets from all sorts of artists. There'd be edge cases where it'd be a lot harder, like recording live music, but in general they'd be well prepared for this.
There would've been some early adjustment in the first couple of months. You'd need to make sure that people had the equipment they needed to work from home for example. You would also have the added complications of having to worry about people's home network and possibly having to deal with VPNs and so on. So that would've put them a bit behind at the start of last year. But once you've got it setup, speaking from experience, if anything people are probably slightly more productive.
Sure it's easier for miscommunication when everyone's WFH and it doesn't really suit intensely collaborative work. And, IMO, there's a tendency for work to sometimes devolve into a series of video calls. But with no commute you can be more flexible with your start and finish times. If there's something you need to focus on you can, IMO, more easily shut out the world and work on it.
Also now that everyone has discovered WFH is an option sick days will largely disappear. Because if you're just a bit sick instead of toughing it out, going into the office and spreading it everywhere you can stay at home. And if you're a bit on the edge of being too sick to work you can see how you go working from home rather than doing that thing were you try to figure out at 7AM in the morning if you're sick enough to take a sick day or not....
tl;dr: I would be surprised if Nintendo's productivity has been impacted much. They're software developers, they're not a tourism operator or restaurant chain
@TheJGG in June Nintendo are releasing 3 original retail games, if they are struggling that much they would have spread those releases out. It’s seems fairly safe the rest of the year will be stacked.
@skywake As stated very good points indeed. My comment was also a veiled way of saying "keep E3 expectations realistic considering everything," so I'm trying to lower my own!
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