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News - Report: Work-from-home issues to blame as Nintendo axes June Direct - xSicKxBot - 05-02-2020
Report: Work-from-home issues to blame as Nintendo axes June Direct
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/report-work-from-home-issues-to-blame-as-nintendo-axes-june-direct.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Nintendo has reportedly reached out to its partners to say it no longer plans to hold one of its Nintendo Direct announcement sprees during the month of June.</p>
<p>Nintendo tends to hold a Direct right around the time that E3 is typically being held. That was to be the case this year despite <a href="https://gamasutra.com/view/news/360840/The_ESA_isnt_planning_to_replace_E3_2020_with_a_digital_event.php">E3 itself being called off</a>, but <a href="https://venturebeat.com/2020/04/30/no-nintendo-direct-planned-for-june-due-to-work-from-home-hurdles/">according to VentureBeat</a> Nintendo has halted plans to do so in 2020 due to its own COVID-19 complications.</p>
<p>VentureBeat speculates in its own reporting that difficulties in swapping over to remote work in a country that prioritizes the value of face-to-face dealings is likely to blame, and that Nintendo noted in its previous Direct from March that “release dates and other information … are subject to change” due to COVID-19.</p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2020/04/30/report-work-from-home-issues-to-blame-as-nintendo-axes-june-direct/