Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@darkfenrir
Sure. look no further than your current PC which can emulate Wii U games flawlessly right now. Zelda and Mario Kart 8 are the only games anyone buys a Switch for really.

@MrAfrika my laptop is 2000+ usd at the time of buying 3.5 years ago. It has since halved but that's still a lot of money compared to switch. Yes it's more worth in general, but for 300 usd? Switch works far better as a gaming machine

Edit: forget to add that this bloody laptop can't even play current AAA games on anything higher than Low, so I doubt it can run citra/whatever is it for wii u just fine. Or for ps3/4

@link3710
"Its the best screen a gaming system has ever seen" isn't saying much when there is something with a better screen already in your pocket. Right now WiiU games can run flawlessly on tablets and PC's, if you enjoy multitasking and not lugging around a Switch that will power down after only 3 hours of play, a couple hundred dollars and not being able to play Smash is pretty reasonable instead of being nailed down to a underpowered system.

@darkfenrir Well i don't know what computer you bought for $2,000 that can't run AAA games today but I have no problems with my 2 year old $1,000 laptop.

@MrAfrika Asus ROG something, 1050Ti. Can't even run FFXV on anything higher than Low (and have to throttle it to 30fps)

But I don't want to lug my laptop around anyway... I can't play my laptop on bed comfortably while I can do it with Switch

@Dezzy Yeah, I am, but we don't have annual flu shots for everyone over here. And frankly, I don't see why we would. It's quite unnecessary IMO.

@Octane

It's a preventative measure. Fewer hospitalizations/serious cases/deaths with vaccines. Not that hard to understsand, really.

@Octane The flu virus mutates very frequently so that the vaccine that works for this year's strain might not work for next year's strain. It's not really required to get one (unless you work somewhere in the healthcare field like in a hospital or clinic), but it's highly recommended so you don't get sick from the flu.

@Dezzy Well, I mean... FF7R was most likely in development/production for almost 5+ years at this point, given that the game was announced 5 years ago. COVID-19 wasn't really a thing back then and not even up until recently, so I'm pretty sure Square Enix would have figured out the logistics for distributing the game (or not, seeing as they made the fascinating decision to "episodize" the game) before the current outbreak.

@k8sMum @Vee_Flames For risk groups I agree, but that's far from everyone, most people are healthy. We don't have a higher mortality rate of seasonal flu cases because of the lack of annual shots. Additionally, there hasn't been evidence that it even helps in healthy adults (source). So it seems a bit pointless to me, and a waste of resources since it doesn't really help.

But I'm also still baffled by the fact that you get completely sedated in some countries when they pull a tooth

@Octane Honestly, the vaccine isn't important for protecting healthy adults. The main reason to give it to everyone is herd immunity. There are plenty of people who can't get the vaccine for one reason or another (most notably immune deficiencies). But by having a certain percentage of the population with an immunity, the virus won't be able to transmit that easily, and it protects those people.

Edit: source https://www.ovg.ox.ac.uk/news/herd-immunity-how-does-it-work

So yeah, getting the vaccine as a healthy adult isn't for yourself really. Instead, it protects the young, sick and elderly. It's especially important for people like teachers, hospital workers, and anyone else who interacts with an at-risk population to be vaccinated for that reason.

Go on then, precisely how much less could you care?

@link3710 Oh yeah, absolutely. But the difference between vaccinated people and unvaccinated people getting the flu is only 1-2%, and the significance isn't very strong either. So in reality it doesn't really make a difference. Like I said, there are plenty of countries that don't offer seasonal flu shots to everyone, and the mortality rate of seasonal flu isn't any different. So it doesn't seem to have an effect, and the literature supports this as well.

But whatever, back to Nintendo Directs

At this rate, We'll all get our next flu shot before we get our next Nintendo direct 😛

Well, to be fair, the flu isn't anything to be scared of at all, and for most people the body recovers from a virus invasion pretty quickly, even though I wouldn't wish the symptoms on anyone. At the end of the day though, getting sick because you didn't bother to get the shot is rather inconvenient, seeing as you could have to stay away from work or be unproductive for some time. Not to mention that we kind of put the vulnerable, such as the sick, those with weak immune systems, and the elderly if we're walking around as virus producing factories.

Oh look, @link3710 beat me to it, haha. Regarding the study you linked, though... well, a reduction of flu rates in healthy adults from 2% to around 0.9% is better than nothing, especially when you consider that the flu virus is something that mutates a lot, so just saying the difference is around 1-2% is kind of missing the mark. Off topic, but the study also mentions that vaccines raise fevers but doesn't really give any context behind it. That's weird, because then readers are prone to think that that's a bad thing, when that's pretty much a normal side effect of vaccinations and is more times than others a sure sign that the body is responding to the vaccines.

EDIT: But yes, back to vacci.. er, I mean, back to the coronav--- Nintendo Directs. I meant to say Nintendo Directs.

The point about the virus is not that 'everything's going to be delayed', it's that it is disrupting the global economy, creating uncertainty, and when that happens, large corporations are likely to take a cautious approach, reassessing their short/medium-term plans, and putting big decisions/announcements on hold while they weigh up their options and see how the disruption plays out, maybe delaying a few projects to reduce their exposure to risk.

It would be a bit odd though if the entire entertainment industry all took the decision at the same time to delay everything.

Well but no-one expected a global virus to suddenly appear, did they? So Square would probably have left the physical manufacturing part until the last minute, as I assume they usually do?
I doubt developers print millions of discs years before release. What if the game ends up getting canceled? Would've blown a lot of money.

@Dezzy True, but let's look at the timeline. It's launching early April. That means distribution to stores probably started early March. Which means, the game probably went Gold mid to late January, and started production of discs.

So even if production numbers are down thanks to COVID-19, they were likely too far along before factories started closing to turn back now. Same thing with Nintendo and Animal Crossing, though at least AC will likely be mostly digital.

Nintendo of Japan updated their Direct playlist today. How long was the wait between the ACNH Direct and the previous playlist update?

@A_Kirby_fan Two or three weeks, which is what it almost always is. Looks like I miiiight be wrong about the April 1st direct. Or maybe it's an Indie World coming, who knows.

The Nintendo Direct is something that comes directly from Nintendo and nobody really knows when the next one is except for Nintendo itself.