Nintendo had to officially apologize for the inconvenience, too…

Until now, there were plans that Blizzard would hold a launch party for Overwatch in New York City in the US, as the team-based FPS is launching on the Nintendo Switch. (It’s ported by Iron Galaxy, who made the forgettable Extinction last year, and they had a few questionable port jobs, too: Borderlands 2 (2014, PlayStation Vita), Batman: Arkham Knight (2015, PC).) Blizzard backed out of it altogether, as the room is too hot for them right now, as they first banned Blitzchung, a Hearthstone eSports-player, for twelve months for openly expressing support of the Hong Kong protesters (then it was reduced to six months), plus the prize award was taken away from him (but it will be paid after all).

„Gather your team and head to NintendoNYC Wednesday, 10/16 from 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM (without reservation) and from 5:30 PM – 7 PM (reservation required) for Blizzard’s launch event celebrating Overwatch: Legendary Edition releasing on [the] Nintendo Switch!”, the first tweet wrote a week ago. You can scratch it, as this tweet followed overnight: „Please be aware that the previously announced Overwatch launch event scheduled for Wednesday, 10/16 at NintendoNYC has been cancelled by Blizzard. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.” (And there are plenty of reactions: the first tweet got just 70 replies, the second one packed 842 at the time of writing. There’s no need to quote any of them… most of then refers to Blizzard being afraid.)

BlizzCon is happening in November, and Blizzard cannot run away from it as they did in New York. There will be problems for them at that event. (And it will be hard for the company to stand up from this point, isn’t it?)

Source: WCCFTech

Gather your team and head to #NintendoNYC Wednesday, 10/16 from 4:30PM – 5:30PM (without reservation) and from 5:30PM – 7PM (reservation required) for Blizzard’s launch event celebrating #Overwatch: Legendary Edition releasing on #NintendoSwitch! pic.twitter.com/uS9fOIESe6

— Nintendo NY (@NintendoNYC) October 8, 2019

Please be aware that the previously announced Overwatch launch event scheduled for Wednesday, 10/16 at NintendoNYC has been cancelled by Blizzard. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

— Nintendo NY (@NintendoNYC) October 15, 2019

Please support our page theGeek.games on Patreon, so we can continue to write you the latest gaming, movie and tech news and reviews as an independent magazine.
Become a Patron!