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The mystery of the Amazon Nintendo beef may have finally been explained
Amazon’s missing out on that sweet Switch 2 money because Nintendo’s mad about “unauthorized sales,” new report suggests new features
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 report appears to confirm players’ long-standing suspicions that there’s been a quiet beef between the two companies, 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 Nintendo’s advertised rates,” according to a new report from Bloomberg (paywalled), citing an anonymous person familiar with the situation between the two companies.
“Enterprising sellers 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 Nintendo apparently wasn’t biting.