TIL Nintendo coats all of their Switch cartridges with extremely bitter denatonium benzoate to deter children from putting them in their mouths and swallowing them.
TIL Nintendo coats all of their Switch cartridges with extremely bitter denatonium benzoate to deter children from putting them in their mouths and swallowing them.
www.theguardian.com Nintendo admits it has made Switch cartridges taste unbearably bitter
Same agent as used in anti-nail biting treatment coats Nintendo Switch game cartridges to help prevent children swallowing them
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Either mine don't have the coating, or I'm immune to it somehow.
I finally tried licking one recently, and it didn't taste like anything
Did you buy it used?
eww!
I read somewhere that they stopped doing it. Not sure how often this happened or if it even happened to every game.
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