Don't lick your Nintendo Switch game cartridges; company says games taste terrible on purpose

Kyoto, Japan -- With the Nintendo Switch about to hit stores, tech writers, vloggers and gamers are testing everything about it -- including the taste. One guy found out very quickly that the tiny game cartridges taste absolutely awful.

In spite of the warning from Giant Bomb co-founder Jeff Gerstmann, others were quick to taste-test the cartridges for themselves. According to available reports, they all regretted it almost instantly.

The video game site Polygon said a Nintendo representative confirmed that Switch cartridges are coated in a material that’s meant taste bad so people won't put the units in their mouths.