Why do Nintendo Switch cartridges taste bad?

We continue talking almost daily about the Nintendo Switch, the latest great launch of the Japanese company that intends to return to the market through the big door, and that is that yesterday, March 3, Nintendo Switch officially arrived in stores and many are the users who have have been able to see for themselves whether The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild It is as good as the specialized press is saying. However, what brings us to this point today is the fact that The Nintendo Switch cartridges have a peculiar taste, in fact it seems that it causes a small gag when sucked.

And it is that the IGN colleagues in the United States, realized that there was something strange in the taste of the Nintendo Switch cartridges, not only were they not tasteless, something that can be expected in a plastic product, but they also really knew bad, so much so that you could gag, as happened to the director of The VergeDieter Bohn. In short, a whole circle of rumors opened about why the Nintendo Switch cartridges tasted so bad, and nothing better than asking their manufacturers directly, they did so from Kotaku.

“To avoid the possibility of accidental ingestion, it is recommended to keep cartridges out of the reach of children. We have also applied a bitter substance (Denatonium Benzoate) on the cartridges. This substance is not toxic ”.

That is the answer that the team of Nintendo America has given about the strange taste in the Nintendo Switch cartridgesThe fact is that the Japanese company knows that young people are its main audience, and what better way to protect them and reassure their parents with this type of measure. So it has been, Nintendo has done it again.