Chinese Social Media Blocks Nintendo Switch Related Hashtag

Last week, Chinese gamers were dealt a painful blow after Animal Crossing: New Horizons was confiscated from store shelves and the game was effectively banned in China.

Weibo, the social media equivalent of Twitter in China, has blocked a hashtag called “Switch supply in Japan does back to normal this week“. Many Chinese commentators speculate that the team at Weibo may have done it as “oversensitive self-censorship” in light of the ban, as global Nintendo Switch systems are not banned in China:

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