Hi,
Why there is no Chinese language support in Overwatch for Nintendo Switch? I checked the supported languages in the product description page in the eShop:
- English
- French
- German
- Italian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Japanese
- Korean
They dont have it because there isn’t a market there. Not for Overwatch, obviously there’s a market for the game since Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou all have teams and players, but there literally isn’t a market for Switches there. All Switches there are bootleg from parts or imported illegally.
Games were embargoed and many developers including Tencent were blacklisted from new title launches for months (almost a year). Tencent just got whitelisted on the tail end of thIs summer.
Nintendo only just recently announced their partnership with Tencent last month and Tencent is literally becoming Nintendo’s local office in order to bring the Switch/port Switch titles to the Chinese audience. Before this partnership, Nintendo never really had a market in China.
Support for localization needs to exist before they can add the language in, as per Nintendo’s rules. Since Nintendo doesn’t have a local office, they probably dont have an SDK for Chinese developers, or even a localization team. So even if Blizz can translate into Mandarin and Traditional/Simplified, it has nowhere to go, there is no Nintendo team there to screen and approve it.
Give it time, once Switches get a foothold, then they’ll be able to do it.
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Hardware limitations. snickers
/s
Did you just… not read the post above yours?
Do you just… not get sarcasm?
Sorry, let me add my /s since it’s really hard for you.
Do you not understand Poe’s Law?
Well also, Overwatch is Free in China, for PC.
And there’s a lot of PC Internet Cafe’s there.
That has nothing to do with the lack of support for a new release.
The lack of support is because there are literally less 1000 Switches in China because Nintendo doesn’t yet sell Switches in China.
You’re taking this way out of proportion…
Poe’s Law is literally, if a post isn’t annotated as sarcastic in the post, then no one can tell if it’s sarcastic because sarcasm can’t be communicated over the internet in text form.
If you dont have /s or 
in a post, no one can hear your sarcasm. Also, anyone trying to ridicule someone else for not getting the sarcasm immediately loses their standing and justification for ridicule.
I figured the laugh at the end would have sufficed.
Oh well.
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It was pretty obviously a joke. The notion of hardware limitations preventing language support is absurd on the face of it. C’mon.
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The topic is China, who is notorious for censorship of games and using bullcrap justifications for that censorship.
It can also be seen as a dig at Blizzard.
Plenty to be confused about. And he clearly never heard of Poe’s Law until just now…
No dude, the topic is about Chinese language support for Overwatch on the Nintendo Switch. Zac wasn’t even replying to you, he was just making a joke. There’s no need to be so serious.
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China has used asinine justification for either their censorship or blacklisting of a product before it went to market exactly like “hardware limitations”.
The post can also be seen as a dig at Blizzard for not wanting to support China, as a relatively scummy practice, because Blizzard reception isn’t good right now.
The post can be interpreted multiple ways, I’m not even being that serious.
There are 2 different Chinese versions: Simplified and Traditional.
Simplified Chinese is China Mandarin
Traditional Chinese is Taiwanese Mandarin/HK Cantonese