Amazon's missing out on that sweet Switch 2 money because Nintendo's mad about "unauthorized sales," new report suggests

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If you've ever tried to buy a first-party Nintendo product in the US on Amazon - including Switch 2 - you might have noticed that the mega-retailer's selection is limited. A new repo♛rt appears to confirm players' long-standing suspicions that there's been a quiet beef between the two comꦰpanies, and apparently "a disagreement over unauthorized sales" is to blame.

Nintendo "stopped selling on Amazon after noticing that third-party merchants were offering games for sale in the US at prices that undercut Nintendꦐo’s advertised rates," according to a new report from (paywalled), citing an anonymous person familiar with the situat🐓ion between the two companies.

"Enterprising seller💯s were buying Nintendo products in bulk in Southeast Asia and exporting them to the US," the report alleges. Amazon is then said to have promised Nintendo that its official retail listings would have labels guaranteeing their authenticity, but Ni🎀ntendo apparently wasn't biting.

Nintendo and Amazon both d👍ispute Bloomberg's report, but did not offer any alternative explanation for why Nintendo products have been so hard to come by on the site.

As Bloomberg notes, Amazon is now offering seemingly official pre-orders for first-party 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Switch 2 games like 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Donkey Kong Bananza, though you still can't purchase launch games like Mario Kart World or the upgraded editions of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Breath of the Wild or 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Tears of the Kingdom.

While the specifics of this s♑ituation seem to date back to 2024, speculation about beef between Amazon and Nintendo goes back to at least 2015, when the retailer stopped carrying 3DS consoles. At the time, popular rumors suggested Amazon 🐈was unhappy about handling returns for 3DS hinge failures, but those rumors were never corroborated.

The one thing that is sure is that Amazon, at least in the US, is not an option if you're still trying to figure out 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:where to buy Nintendo Switch 2. Whether that changes remains to be seen, but Amazon's already missed out on the ground floor of the 🍒澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:fastest-selling Nintendo conso🍨le ever, and indeed the fastest-selling console of🦂 all time.

Our list of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Switch 2 games includes several third-party titles, and many of those remain available on Amazon US, at least.

Dustin Bailey
Staff Writer

Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting h🔯is entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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