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Bloomberg: Nintendo Switch is likely to struggle to supply sufficient to U.S. and European markets as soon as April by the coronavirus outbreak.
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I really hope we find a cure for this. Not just for the console generations, and video game related reasons, but before this potentially mutates into something more dangerous. I get this massive MH370 feeling from it all, we have thousands of satellites circlingtl the earth, nations spying on each other and yet in the modern world, we lose a plane.
We're certainly not as smart as we think we are, when a virus like this has blindsided civilization in 2020.
We're certainly not as smart as we think we are, when a virus like this has blindsided civilization in 2020.
Probably have better insight regarding this once Nintendo's briefing their Q1 earnings and/or if they'll have revised Q2 expectations from this.
I managed to get one from Walmart, but scalpers are having a field day with it
It is what happens when you depend on one area of the world for production....
This sucks for everyone, really. I'm starting to think we might not see the new consoles until next year if this goes on for too long.
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At this rate everyone is going to be affected by this. Sony and MS will take huge hits too.
Not really?
Other consoles' supply chains will be affected as well, and rumor has it they're going to be more expensive than originally planned. Those two things could slow next-gen adoption. With shortages Nintendo likely won't price drop this year, and if that's the case it wouldn't shock me if 2021 is Switch's peak year (some of the things things we may see next year are a price drop, new 3D Mario, BOTW2, rumored pro model, new 2D Mario, new Mario Kart, etc . . .)
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They will sooner launch with ten units on the shelf and spend months playing catch-up than not launch during the holiday.
Feel lucky that I got an Animal Crossing Switch preorder when I did.
I've got a launch Switch, but I was starting to get sick of the bad battery and wanted a newer model.
I've got a launch Switch, but I was starting to get sick of the bad battery and wanted a newer model.
I agree, though it's much worse for Microsoft & Sony since they have PS5 & Xbox Series X coming out.
If this continues, they'll have to delay both of them.
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As long as they bring me my pre-ordered physical copy of Animal Crossing I will be able to cope.
We lost something that nobody owning a spy satellite cared about.
No one had any reason to readjust their satellite to follow an insignificant object moving hundreds of miles an hour.
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You know, theres lots of satellites monitoring and corresponding to undersea beacons to detect geographical phenomenon such as undersea earthquakes, changing in sea temperatures, etc etc. But none of them picked up on the plane. One beacon detected something, but Im not sure what resulted with that. At the end of the day, the stupidity of allowing all GPS equipment on a plane to be within reach of a pilot to manually disengage is dumb af. Humans are dumb.
The problem is scale. China has the infrastructure and manpower for that type of industry, while other countries lack even the minimal infrastructure. Nintendo does assembly in Vietnam, but that don't mean Vietnam can take China's place.
If you make something to do A, it won't pick up Orange. That is how little those things have to do with each other. The Hubble telescope can detect things lightyears away, but we could nuke half the world and it probably wouldn't realize.
Agreed. But scale requires investment into a marketplace. I just hope companies explore other destinations and invest into them: Establish manufacturing/assembly centers elsewhere. Of course some resources will have to be imported into these potential countries, for example natural resources that are only available in China.
Except, the undersea beacons pick up on Whale movement, and undersea accoustics and I think one of them presumably detected a bang from a crash, or the sound of the plane sinking tothe sea bed(as they record whale and dolphin accoustics), it ended up being something else.
At the end of the day, we did manage to figure out the general area where it crashed, it's just that the ocean is huge and a plane is tiny. We still find stuff from 75 years ago down there.
Sony and MS have already stated that this isn't affecting their next-gen plans. If they both manage to manufacture the number of units they need and Nintendo doesn't? Hoo boy.
That in itself was ridiculous.. we only worked with the rolls royce engine pings.. and you would think those maintenance pings would be more accurate.
In any case. Just saying.. things like this, and the Coronavirus shows us how vulnerable we are.
In that case it may have some effect, but you're still looking at $500 devices verses a $300 device that will see discounts and bundles. The former will be targeted towards the gaming enthusiast crowd at first, while the latter will be working its way further into the mass market. Third-party support shouldn't change drastically for the Switch in the first year or two either. I don't see any reason to anticipate a major impact.
Where have they stated this and when? Bold statement to make by them.
The question is how severe the shortages will be and for how long. Without knowing that it's hard to know what sort of impact it will have.
Seems kind of a big statement for them (and I sort of doubt they won't be affected)
What I find crazier is that we are so far from being able to cure baldness. It affects a majority of men, no one likes it, people are willing to throw lots of money at it, but we can't do it. Terraforming Mars is more realistic than curing baldness.
