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Some Nintendo Switch games are currently sold out at US retailers. Some see this as a strategy by the Japanese company to re-release these games for the “Nintendo Switch 2”, the next console due to be released in 2024.
Switch games are disappearing from the shelves © Tom’s Guide
The Nintendo Switch, Nintendo’s hybrid console, has enjoyed phenomenal success since its launch in 2017. Its exclusive games such as Zelda, Mario and Fire Emblem are among the best-selling and most popular games with audiences.
But it has been for some time Some of these games seem to have disappeared from store shelvess, particularly in the United States. Some fans see this as a harbinger of the Nintendo Switch 2, the Japanese company’s next console.
Nintendo Switch games cannot be found in stores
It was the website Nintendeal that discovered the phenomenon: some of the best Nintendo Switch games are currently available and tear up the inventory at major American retailers such as Walmart, Target, GameStop or Amazon. These are not current games or promotional games, but rather games that were released a few years ago and are part of the console’s essential catalog.
Here is the list of affected games:
- Paper Mario: The Origami King
- Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze
- The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (2019)
- Pikmin 3 Deluxe
- Metroid Dread
- Kirby Star Allies
- Xenoblade Chronicles 2
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe
- Fire Emblem: Three Houses
- Fire Emblem: Engage
- Yoshi’s designed world
- WarioWare: Bring it together!
- Nintendo Switch Sport
- Super Mario Odyssey
- Splatoon 2
- Super Mario Maker 2
- Mario Strikers: Battle League
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These games are usually always available, and some, like Fire Emblem Engage or WarioWare: Get it Together!, were even released in 2023. So why are these games nowhere to be found in stores? Could there be a connection with the Nintendo Switch 2, the console that Nintendo is preparing for 2024?
Nintendo could lay the foundation for the Switch 2
Some believe that Nintendo would have removed these games from the market long ago Give them a new SKU codei.e. a unique identifier that enables products to be differentiated.
These new games would be compatible with both the Switch and Switch 2 and might have different covers to indicate this. This would be a way for Nintendo to prepare the ground for the Switch 2, which is expected this year offer cross-generational gamesSo playable on both console generations.
Is Nintendo stopping physical releases of the Nintendo Switch and preparing to re-release it with new SKUs and fresh box art for Nintendo Switch 2? pic.twitter.com/P7J0WmjuEG
– Nintendeal (@Nintendeal) January 8, 2024
This theory is based on the fact that Nintendo has done this in the past and has re-released certain games labeled “Nintendo Selects” (like “PlayStation Hits”), indicating that they are famous games, too a reduced price.
You could also say that it’s just a simple problem of stock shortages after the holiday season. Furthermore, at this stage The Nintendo Switch 2 is just a ghost as it hasn’t been made official by Nintendo yet.
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