New Report Claims Coronavirus Will Cause Switch Shortages In The US And Europe

Given that things seem to be getting worse in terms of the number of victims, restrictions, etc some impact is a given especially when there's a lot of uncertainty about things. That being said hopefully those affected recover and the spread/propagation of this virus is snubbed as soon as possible.

As to be expected. Nintendo will spread out their stock as much as possible, I’m sure they’ll ship from Europe or America to Japan.

This problem sadly (esp for the Chinese) will have a long tail since the first vaccines aren’t expected to be ready before 2022 from what I’ve read.

Inevitable with the quarantine restricting movement of such a large amount of people over China. Hopefully things get better shortly, have to be positive 😀

Right, I'm definitely gonna stop eating bats now.

I think a lot of us focus on the little picture of how we keep ourselves safe from getting the virus, however, the bigger picture in terms of global impact is that China at present is in semi-lockdown.

As the worlds largest producer, we will start seeing shortages in many areas as this continues. And even the momentary blip (if it is only that) will have an impact.

If it is long term, the impact on goods exported will mean shortages in a number of areas. And prices will rise as demand grows. China’s lockdown will mean they use less energy. This will impact oil prices (probably cheapen them), but could destabilise that market and cause greater competition between the oil producers. The impact to the flow of people will also have an effect on a number of areas.

The knock on affect of this will be impacting most countries. It is the biggest test for our global economy at present. And when the UN got experts together about two years ago and ran through the scenario of a pandemic, the outlook at the time was not good unless governments changed, and we know that doesn’t happen quickly.

So, Nintendo will be doing all they can to keep their supply chains strong, but in all honesty, we probably have some bigger things to worry about.

Dodgy stuff this Corona virus........... makes me very skeptical.

I want to play my games!

But... people are dying!

I WANT TO PLAY DEM GAMES!!

@Xiovanni thank you! I totally agree that we should never rely upon just one country for everything! China is walking time bomb that’s going to explode at some point, and it’s best that companies start recognizing that!

The Legend of Corona Rap:

"Whoa! Sick graphics! I'd like to get my hands on that console!"

"Well, it's the Corona Virus and it's really bad...."

@Friendly
My understanding is that 2 companies have already developed vaccines. However, the lengthy approval process of FDA is the barrier. Also, I believe an HIV pill cocktails was proving effective at keeping the virus from multiplying long enough for your immune system to deal with it. Only problem is this is a costly solution...

@Ainz really suprised to see that someone disliked that comment.

@Kienda
It has already impacted oil prices
There is now more supply than demand
The US stock market as a whole has been shaky because of the outbreak

@BenAV We have the worst global pandemic of recent times with hundreds losing their lives and hundreds of thousands infected and all you can think about is your precious game save? Unbelievable. You want to get a grip and give your head a wobble!

While we're on the subject of illnesses, influenza has already led to almost 15,000 deaths and over 200,000 hospitalizations in the US alone this flu season. Wash your hands and cough into your elbows, you filthy mongrels.
I also know 3 folks that have received packages from Wuhan in the past 10 days via Amazon purchases.

@Profondo Just stay calm, you'll be fine. Also, novel Coronavirus is certainly not the 'worst global pandemic of recent times'.

@Pirlo_ze_sniper probably a miss-click, I don't see it unless this site is designed to hide such things from the original poster.

@Profondo if the info I've seen is true then the coronavirus isn't as bad as you make out. It's highly contagious, but not really all that lethal. Of course, hundreds have died, and thousands are sick, and China and the UK are doing the right thing by treating it seriously, but compared to bird flu or h1n1(which I'd consider to still be "recent times"), Coronavirus just isn't as bad.

On topic, Nintendo have stock shortages without epidemics in China, so I can't imagine we'll notice much difference.

There was already shortages in UK/US since Christmas anyway as it seemed Nintendo were struggling to keep up with demand. Shame the virus is likely to make that worse still...

@Aronin Apple and Foxconn are already branching out of China to places like Brazil and India. Also some assembly moved to the US so at least not all production is in China now!

You mean completely relying on a country for cheap labor produced backlash in the end?

@BenAV Oh...well that's something. I guess it's to spare people's feelings.

No... This means PS5 shortages as well...

Well this blows. I pre-ordered two Animal Crossing Switches from two different stores. I hope I get at least one of them. And I hope this Coronavirus starts to level off and drop soon. It’s not as deadly as the seasonal flu but it seems to spread easier. I’m old so I remember SARS and that was with us for almost a year before infection rates declined.

And here we got Trolls claiming this will kill Switch growth. This is clearly NintenDoomed fandom can't stand that fact a underpowered/portable console beat them at their own game.

as long as they don't have a shortage on their games then i am unaffected by this

Companies like Nintendo would do well to avoid putting all their manufacturing eggs in the China basket. A country built on child labour, concentration camps, propaganda and aggressive state censorship.

Not to mention their shocking treatment of animals—the source and cause of coronavirus, and countless other pandemic level outbreaks.

Oh, and far and away the world’s worst polluting country to boot.

Roll up and sell your souls right here, folks. Buy cheap and sell bloodied.

@Ainz Think the number of new cases is dropping, according to Chinese authorities. But considering the source I’d take that with a large pinch of Winnie The Pooh.

So time to move factories out of China and crap, sound good?

@HobbitGamer My apologies, I completely forgot about H1N1 which of course was estimated to have killed between 150 - 500k! Corona has 76k infections (so far) with 2.5k deaths. SARS had 5.5k infected with 800 deaths (which I was comparing). Let's hope they can get Corona under control as these numbers are creeping up at an alarming rate...