I would trade a few dead babies for normal tasting carts. What concerns me is the possibility of various scenarios where the awful taste material is unwittingly transferred around. Presumably, it's activated by moisture, so if your hands/fingers are a little bit sweaty while handling carts, would you then have whatever this voodoo substance is on your person? Gross. I don't like the idea at all.

Tsk, amateurs. Ballmer would have poisoned them, to solve the problem definitively. Nadella instead would poison Ninty and Sony ones, much slier. Sony too would have try the same, but it'd poison PSV cartridges by mistake.   

That can be said about a lot of stuff that we use in daily life, that's why you should wash you hands frequently. As for the actual chemical in the carts one of the uses for the chemical that is put on the carts is in anti-nail bitting mixtures, and things like sampoos so water should easily wash it away.

SonytendoAmiibo said: JEMC said: Kotaku asked Nintendo, and they hav confirmed that they apply a non-toxic, bittering agent, to the cards to avoid the ingestion. Oh, and they've used Denatonium Benzoate which, according to wikipedia, is the "most bitter chemical compound known".   I'm glad Nintendo has gone with something like this for safety purposes, but I'm still wondering why would a journalist lick the card in the first place?   If you read the comments under the YouTube vid, she apologises for being drunk in the video. It's videogame journalism of a new kind.

Well, I'm surprised she could do all that while being drunk. Either she's extremely capable or she wasn't that drunk.

Is this kinda like sticking a 9 volt battery on your tongue?

Thanks for the advice. :)  Could really do without this stuff being bound to my physical media all the same. I'm betting a vast majority won't care at all. Or even know.

Google giving us money for views on Youtube was the worst idea ever