Switch Production Has Been Impacted By The Coronavirus Outbreak, Admits Nintendo

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Need Moooore Switch!

I hope the Switch does not get a virus.

Hopefully the situation gets better soon for those currently dealing with the coronavirus.

It’s scary to see it spread so fast, but it only has a 2 percent mortality rate? The media hypes this thing up as the next Black Plague. I’m not trying to trivialize the deaths so far, though, and my sympathies go out to the victims and their families.

@thesilverbrick Hyping things up is the media's cup of tea at this point, and it seems like the enjoyment of that tea is turning into an addiction.

Even still, my heart goes out to those affected

Is this a hint for plague inc. for the Switch?

@thesilverbrick To be fair, that’s a higher mortality rate than the Spanish Flu in 1918. But a counterpoint to that is modern medicine. Another counter(counter?)point to that is the hesitance to work with other country’s infectious disease teams. So it’s all a mess.

It makes sense that production is going to be affected, but hopefully it won’t cause too much lasting damage economically. Hopefully the virus is contained well enough that the 9-12 months for a vaccine doesn’t get worse.

@HobbitGamer Once again, it’s humanity’s failure to cooperate that’s the real problem. And sadly the victims here will be the elderly and those with compromised immune systems.

@thesilverbrick Agreed.

@thesilverbrick @ToonStuff Well, clicks = business, so it's a given the media will exaggerate it, regardless of its severity. Even if 9 out of 10 news outlets report it honestly, the 10% the will get the clicks because they have the horror stories.

@Octane right on the money

I imagine this is because everyone in China is too worried about the virus to care about the Switch.

@ToonStuff Never fear, the news tells us, thr government is here!

I can't really say I care about their sales when it's affecting people in a much worse manner. I mean, China already had anxiety over infection, that's only going ti get worse now.

I live in China for work, and not surprised it has affected the switch, the city I live in feels like a ghost town at the moment, most people are too scared to go out, makes it worse the hospital near my home has people who are under observation of the virus

Can we really claim to know the mortality rate? The Chinese government will always save face first rather than admit to numbers that might make them look bad. This is not to suggest that the real numbers are worse, but at this point, I strongly doubt there is any way to know.

What is becoming clear is that this is likely worse than SARS which claimed near a thousand lives (but was way overhyped by the media at the time).

I could see this becoming an issue if the Switch they are building now are Animal Crossing themed ones made for bundles.

Game releases in less than 2 months and they haven't really talked about bundles which we all assume are coming.

Out of like 1.4 billion Chinese people, less than 200 have died.

More than 200 people have likely died in China due to car accidents in the past 3 weeks.

Relax.

Coronavirus isn't a big deal because of its low mortality rate - it's a big deal because it has no known vaccine and has been spreading rapidly.

Not every outbreak is about the number of deaths.

@thesilverbrick,

Just imagine if today's media was around at the time of the black death.

@Nekonokatzen Thanks for the correction! For some inane reason I thought I had seen a comparison against 1.06%. It was probably something else, because I remember the number sticking out.

@thesilverbrick If overhyping it means more people will take safety precautions, I call that a win.

In other unrelated news, a new sale of the resident evil series is coming!

People being safe and healthy takes precedent. Anyone upset needs a reality check.

Living in southern China far away from Wuhan and still everyone is limiting their contact with others outside their homes. It’s definitely put everyone on a state of alert and I make sure to carry some sanitizer everywhere I go.

It’s been a good week for gaming though because I’ve been staying in most of the time.

@Octane True. The headlines grab people’s attention but then you read it and even the CDC is quoted saying that the annual flu season is a bigger cause for concern. Certainly not as big of deal as the hype suggests.

@DinnerAndWine Oh, you want to make comparisons to other ways to die?

How about if 170 people died in a terrorist attack? Would their lives matter more in that case?

Switch fanatics can be pathetic.

Remember the Ebola outbreak that had 1 nurse transferred to NIH in the US and the sensational journalism behind that moment in time? Even less infectious but the media didn't care. I hope everyone affected by this coronavirus makes a speedy recovery

@NotTelevision I mean, we shouldn't underestimate it either; mortality rate is low, but if enough people are affected, that still adds up. But the fact that everyone is on it, including the WHO and other organisations means it will be monitored closely. It's a new strain, so they're still figuring out what makes this one different from other corona viruses; and there is no cure yet.

@HobbitGamer : I'll see your modern medicine and raise you personal hygiene.

I can't speak for everybody else, but many of my ancestors had died quite young as a result of infectious disease (and I have more or less seen their living conditions) and we have come a long way since with access to clean water/plumbing/housing.

It never ceases to bewilder me that people can walk out of the bathroom without so much as washing their hands. I would hate to think of how slovenly such people are in other aspects of their lives.

I do not see the real concern for Corona virus. "conventional" diseases like cancer and heart disease have killed far more people in the same time frame. But the media loves this virus because it's new and scary and thus generates clicks like crazy.

I might sound like an old man saying this, but we get a new one of these "media viruses" every few years. Remember H1B1 and swine flu and that other outbreak in Africa a few years ago?

I'm not saying they aren't lethal or dangerous, but that they aren't worse than the illnesses that we already deal with and no one panics over.

At least none of the articles I've read have explained why the coronavirus is at all more dangerous than any other potentially lethal disease. It's just new.

Now I finally understand why Nintendo region lock the Chinese version of the Switch. Thank you from saving us from the virus Ninty.

@thesilverbrick
We live in an age where hype is such an important concept to media that it extends to freaking viral outbreaks.

@retro_player_22
That was gold.

@Silly_G Very true. And clean water. Though I did get dysentery as a child. West Virginia mountains are no joke.

@retro_player_22 : You naughty tasteless little fiend, you.

@Crono1973

Read the rest of the comments, nobody agrees with you 😂😂

More people die of the flu or pneumonia, than have died from the corona virus so far.

Media hype!

@thesilverbrick That's where my fear lies. I may be in the UK with currently no known outbreaks but my immune system is compromised which means breakouts like this worry me more than ever. No doubt I'm more likely to be in the 2% mortality rate than members of the general population.

@Heavyarms55 I think because the contageon factor changes its dimension. Heart disease, you either have or don't have, your body either has damage, genetic defects, or doesn't. Nothing external other than maintenance of the organ via food etc is going to affect that. A virus is an external predator that hunts and spreads. Each object and person might be extending it's reach, everything you touch might be where it came from, and each person around you may be producing more of it and spreading it. It could mutate at any moment into something worse, and suddenly blow up into a Great Pestilence and kill everyone grotesquely all at once....there's that unknown of just what it will be tomorrow and just how far it will reach, and the sense that' it's always looming and actively hunting....

Psychologically I think that creates much more alert than technically more dangerous conditions that are more concentrated as "body degredation and failure" more than "a biological predator that's multiplying and morphing every minute." Heart attacks don't make good X-Men storylines. Diseases do.

@johnvboy "Just imagine if today's media was around at the time of the black death."

Such a glorious, glorious thought. Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is to just take the direct route!

@NEStalgia So how about things like Influenza, pneumonia, the measals, H1N1, swine flu and any other of countless other contagions?

Yes, this one is new, but I really think people are vastly and massively over-reacting. It's not some ground breaking, Earth shattering new danger to society like the media and governments are treating it.

There are far worse things around but we're "used to" them so, who cares how many people die of cancer or influenza or in car crashes or whatever because those are normal ways to die.

@Heavyarms55 nah, same thing there, every year they hype influenza as though it's the first time it's ever existed. The "deadly new strain of the virus" .... Same old same old.

But it works because the more dangerous terminal conditions seem to people that it can't affect them. That's those other people with bad genes or bad habits. Or it sends inevitable - they know it'll be what gets them so theres no panic. Death by injury seems like something you CONTROL so the same panic doesn't apply. But contageons that grow and spread are like a mini zombie apocalypse...nano zombies that can be everyone any time. Same reason pathogens are a common sci fi story... The nature of what they are and how they work mess with the human psyche... Something you can't control, happens to anyone, is biological, and it's growing and evolving.

It's a fear driver that seems to react on an instinct level for humans...... And the media is best at inflaming instincts to generate panic. It's how they do all that they do....

It sadly works on me too.... I'm a total germophobe. But I do also think it targets the uninformed that aren't aware of the fact they hype new diseases every year and assume the new one must be Great Pestilence all over again.

Of course someday it really will be, and some of us will be so jaded against the warnings we will just ignore them.

@NEStalgia I will be among those jaded. I probably already am.