HONG KONG, May 10 — Chinese fans of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons are paying a premium on foreign consoles and finding ways to skirt limits imposed by local regulators on a game that has become both a breakout worldwide hit and political flashpoint. The game has become a global...
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To obtain the game and play it to its full potential, players in China are paying a premium of up to 50 per cent for unlocked Switch consoles sold abroad and brought in by middlemen, getting foreign bank accounts to pay for items, or paying for services to get faster internet speed to access the game’s overseas servers.
Some gamers told Reuters they had initially bought the Tencent version, thinking that they could use it to play their copies ofZeng Duanxuan, a fashion designer from Beijing, said she had paid 2,100 yuan for a Tencent-stamped console earlier this year but was now selling it because it could not be used to play her copy of the game.
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