The president of the company, Shuntaro Furukawa, admits that the production of the console in China has been impacted by this outbreak.
Shuntaro Furukawa, president of Nintendo, has acknowledged that Wuhan's coronavirus is affecting the production of Nintendo Switch in China, the main production engine of the console internationally. According to Reuters, the epidemic can directly impact console distribution estimates for the last quarter of this fiscal year.
That there is official record, the production of Nintendo Switch is carried out in China and Vietnam, the latter territory with a reduced portion since 2019 regarding the political tensions between the United States and China, as Business Insider advanced last July.
Nintendo Switch estimated dispatching 18 million consoles in the 2019-20 fiscal year (from April 1, 2019 to March 31, 2020); However, the impressive Christmas period executed has raised these estimates to 19.5 million by that date. There are already 52.48 million units sold from the machine.
Neither Sony (PlayStation 4) nor Microsoft (Xbox One family of consoles) have commented on this outbreak; However, in the case of Sony, the situation is much more similar to that of Nintendo, being two Japanese companies with production operations in China. In this way, although there is no official information, the production of PS4 by 2020 could also be affected, as well as that of Nintendo and other great technologies that have already been pronounced. It is unknown if this could affect the production of PlayStation 5.
How things are with Wuhan's coronavirus
According to the most recent information from Beijing (via El País), the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus already spreads throughout the territory of China. The official count of the last hours leaves the death toll in 213 people; those infected, meanwhile, are already more than 9.5000. The suspect cases are around 12,167 and the patients who have managed to recover are located in 126 patients.
This week we knew that the Overwatch League, the circuit organized by Blizzard Entertainment around the video game, has canceled all his professional appointments in China during the months of February and March to prevent possible infections of the coronavirus and thus guarantee the health of all parties involved; both players and visitors and workers.
