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News - Animal Crossing: New Horizons pulled from online stores in China

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Animal Crossing: New Horizons pulled from online stores in China

<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/animal-crossing-new-horizons-pulled-from-online-stores-in-china.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>Copies of <em>Animal Crossing: New Horizons</em> have&nbsp;been pulled from online retailers in China, <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/us-nintendo-china-animalcrossing/nintendo-game-pulled-from-chinese-platforms-after-hong-kong-protest-idINKCN21S11F">a removal Reuters says</a> is the Chinese government’s response to its use by vocal activists calling for Hong Kong’s independence from China.</p>
<p>While the Nintendo Switch officially launched in&nbsp;China late last year, <em>New Horizons</em> isn’t one of the few&nbsp;games approved and officially available for purchase in China at this point,&nbsp;so those in search of the game instead turn to gray market online retailers to secure a copy.</p>
<p>Those gray market retailers technically ban the sale of imported games, but actual enforcement of that rule tends to be lax and inconsistent. Niko Partners’ Daniel Ahmad has an <a href="https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1248495056299778050">insightful thread on the whole debacle</a> that dives into the history and reason for this sudden enforcement.</p>
<p>In addition to what’s mentioned by the Reuters report, Ahmad notes that sellers on the storefront Taobao have been told they cannot list imported versions of <em>New Horizons</em> though both note that the prevalence of user-made content critical of the Chinese government is likely at least partially to blame for the removal.</p>
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