The Outer Worlds for Switch gets delayed due to coronavirus

According to tweets by Private Division, the game publisher is delaying the release of The Outer Worlds for the Nintendo Switch.

The reason: the coronavirus is impacting the Virtuos developer team in China and in other surrounding countries. Virtuos has been working on the port for the game.

Because of that inconvenience, The Outer Worlds will be making a physical cartridge release. There is no launch date yet.

Their office has been recently closed for safety reasons.

We’re delaying @OuterWorlds on Nintendo Switch due to the coronavirus impacting the Virtuos team working on the port, to provide them enough time to finish development. We’ll now be releasing the physical version on cartridge. Once we have a new launch date, we’ll let you know!

— Private Division (@PrivateDivision) February 6, 2020

To clarify, the team at Virtuos is ok, but their office has remained closed during this time. We're working with the team to determine an updated development timeline, and will share more regarding a new launch date shortly.

— Private Division (@PrivateDivision) February 6, 2020

An update for everyone about the Nintendo Switch port for #TheOuterWorlds. It will be delayed due to how the coronavirus has impacted the ability for the port team at Virtuos to work on the port; and it will now have a cartridge with it's physical release.

More information soon! https://t.co/DoS6udyqdq

— The Outer Worlds (@OuterWorlds) February 6, 2020

To follow up: The Virtuos devs are healthy! Their office has just been closed for safety, so progress has halted for the time being.

We'll absolutely share more information as soon as we have it.

— The Outer Worlds (@OuterWorlds) February 6, 2020

[Source]: @PrivateDivision (Twitter).