Analyst: If Coronavirus Isn't Contained in 2 Months It Could Impact Launch of PS5 and Xbox Series X - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 01 March 2020 / 3,578 Views
The Coronavirus (CODVID19) has lead to many video game publishers and developers to back out of PAX East 2020 and GDC 2020.
Nintendo earlier this month released an apology that there would be delays in the production and shipment of the Nintendo Switch in Japan due to the outbreak of the Coronavirus in China. With the latest figures out of Japan there are already signs of shortages of the Switch.
Video games industry senior analyst at Niko Partners Daniel Ahmad in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter says that if the outbreak is contained in the next month or two then console manufacturing would be able to meet demand for the holiday quarter.
However, if the Coronavirus isn't contained it could impact the launch of the next generation consoles, the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. This is due to the majority of video game hardware being manufactured in China.
"If the Coronavirus outbreak is contained within the next month or two then we would expect console manufacturers to be able to meet demand for the holiday quarter, both for current gen consoles and next gen console launches," said Ahmad.
"If manufacturers are unable to operate at full capacity before the end of Q2 2020 we could see an impact on the launch of next gen console launches, with either limited supply or delayed releases becoming the likely outcomes."
The PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X are scheduled to launch in holiday 2020.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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Or, alternatively, if it isn't contained, everybody will have been infected and will have survived the infection long before that.
In the meantime more remasters on the way...
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ this website has some interesting statistics, it shows that the number of active cases is in decline, which means people are recovering at a faster rate than new people are being infected.
This illustrates a point I've been trying to make. Yes this virus is deadly, but given that it gets recognized and precautions are taken it goes from killing millions to numbers less than your common flu. Viruses have a hard time living without a host, so as people take common sense measures to limit the spread, it eventually runs out of hosts. The numbers on that site indicate that those measures are working exactly as expected.
Actually, assuming the trend continues if you plot the numbers of active cases since the peak in Excel and fill the trend over time. It can be predicted that the virus will drop to 0 active cases by the end of this month.
It's only getting started.
Actually the number of active cases is in decline, which means people are recovering faster than new people are being infected.
In the EU it is the opposite, and belief the words from experts.
They should do what they have to do. I'm not in a hurry, there are so many PS4 games this year.
Well I'll be preordering the day preorders open so I'll be fine.
Ohh..Really ? Come on, it's just a flu bro... Why should we be worried.
Yup it's just a flu that can kill people and no one has the vaccine and the cure.
In some ways he's right the Flu kills more people overall and why his message may be lighthearted, it doesn't paint the full picture of a virus that is different from the flu and like HollyGamer said has no vaccine , a Queensland University stated it has a vaccine days away from testing on animals but emphasised this was just the first step in a long line of testing before it possibly becomes available to the public , the University was also the first to replicate the virus in the lab why this was significant was chinese officials wouldn't or couldn't release any of the samples they possessed ,so the replication from an Australian virus patient meant it could be disseminated to other research labs around the world,
That's the one I'm more worried about.
