
Ahh, right here we go, the Nintendo Swap 2 protection you’ve got been ready for: the brand new pink cartridges nonetheless style dangerous. Lastly, we will all relaxation now.
GameSpot bravely put this query to Takuhiro Dohta, the director of the Swap 2 and Programming Administration Group Senior Director. And he confirmed that, sure, that gross-tasting coating is again. “I don’t advise that you just do [lick the cartridges]” Dohta instructed the publication.
We have not managed to get our fingers — or, effectively, our tongues — on a Swap 2 cartridge but, however Dohta appeared eager on discouraging folks from style testing the pink plastic casing: “”We do not need anyone to be liable to any undesirable consumption. We now have certainly made it in order that if it enters your mouth, you will spit it out.” So, yeah, do not eat the cartridges.
Additionally available to weigh in on the cartridge tasting dialog was Kouichi Kawamoto, producer of the Swap 2. He confirmed that he really did attempt licking a Swap 1 cartridge. His response? “By no means once more. I am unable to consider that different individuals are attempting that.”
The unique Swap 1 cartridges are coated in Denatonium Benzoate, a bittering agent that’s meant to discourage youngsters from tasting the cartridge due to its gross style. It is non-toxic, so even in the event you do get curious, there is not any hazard from attempting it, you will simply want you did not.
Nonetheless, it was a subject of dialog across the Swap 1’s launch eight years in the past, and everybody simply needed to attempt it, did not they? We’re completely, positively certain folks will do the identical with the Swap 2 cartridges.
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