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Nintendo Appears To Be Winding Down Production Of Certain Switch Games
- Thread starter Thick Thighs Save Lives
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StereoVsn
Member
Donkey Kong US version sold over 1K copies on Amazon last month. So clearly it is selling something at least.
I think this is your regular. Nintendo strategy. They just don’t keep physical copies on the shelf for whatever reason.
StueyDuck
Member
I thought Nintendo doesn't disclose digital data.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Those are numbers from CESA Japan for 3rd party software which contains both physical and digital data. The point is that Switch physical games sells in droves so your anecdotal evidence is not relevant for this thread.
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StereoVsn
Member
And it actually makes sense as well due to decent resale value and no internal storage to speak of.
I am about 80% physical personally on the Switch.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Yeah, exactly. Same for me and my group of friends, but it doesn't really have any relevance to these 1P games getting "out of print" all of the sudden so I just didn't mention it lol. Some people implying that they don't stock/order them anymore because it doesn't sell aka "supply and demand, look at me, I'm so smart" is frankly absurd, especially since we're talking about some evergreen titles like Switch Sport and Super Mario Odyssey.
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StueyDuck
Member
Relax chum
StereoVsn
Member
Yeah, these two are quite strange to be on this list, and especially Odyssey being the only 3D Mario game for the platform.
And 3D Mario sells as evergreen just like you said. I am really hoping this isn’t an indicator of no physical BC for Switch 2 because the would be quite the downer.
Thick Thighs Save Lives
NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
That's what I'm frankly scared of, and Nintendo has been very quiet on the backwards compatibility front... We'll have to wait and see I guess.
I'm relaxed lol.
InterMusketeer
Member
The Switch itself is winding down, so I'm not surprised some of these older titles (many of which have been 'replaced' by sequels IE Pikmin 4, Splatoon 3 etc.) might cease production. I assume many of these will return in some sort of budget line, but for some niche titles it's perfectly justified IMO to only have them available digitally. They've been in stores for years. You can't expect them to be around forever. This is normal for any console.
I don't think this necessarily says anything about the Switch 2's BC either. If it has BC they want to sell you these games directly. If it's not, they want to sell you a Switch 1 and these games directly. Nintendo has nothing to gain from scarcity and they don't benefit from the secondary market. There must be another reason for this decision.
I don't think this necessarily says anything about the Switch 2's BC either. If it has BC they want to sell you these games directly. If it's not, they want to sell you a Switch 1 and these games directly. Nintendo has nothing to gain from scarcity and they don't benefit from the secondary market. There must be another reason for this decision.
peronmls
Member
Oh boy. $500 dollar resell. I guess I’ll get dread. They can keep their Mario and Zelda crap.
Dr. Wilkinson
Gold Member
Or maybe try reading the second sentence of my post. You can’t miss it, it’s literally right after the one you bolded in a failed attempt to “get me”.
I’m not doing homework for you. I don’t work for you, bro.
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Dr. Wilkinson
Gold Member
Yep. Exactly. If they don’t do it it would literally be the first time ever.
kiphalfton
Member
Or maybe you could have left that out, since you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
How about that.
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Dr. Wilkinson
Gold Member
Thanks for the life coaching in a video game forum. No, I don’t think I’ll take any of your suggestions, though. Maybe grow up? Up to you. Couldn’t care less.
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kiphalfton
Member
Not sure how asking you to substantiate or back up something you say is negative. You do you though.
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Sojiro
Member
Yeah I think this is likely the case too, I don't see them pulling some evergreen sellers just for shits and giggles, guess we'll see though.
jufonuk
not tag worthy
bender
What time is it?
saintjules
Gold Member
Ironic regarding Best Buy since they too are stopping physical releases at the end of January.
Gambit2483
Member
Only physical releases of DVD and Blu Ray media I thought. Not videogames
saintjules
Gold Member
Ah. I stand corrected. Read the wrong articles.
apple_of_enlightenment
Member
All game companies do this, it's perfectly normal as sales of titles begin to fall
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
sachos
Member
On top of this Nintendo games keep topping the sales charts with physical game sales alone.
Gambit2483
Member
It doesn't support their "Digital is now bigger than Physical" narrative.
Shake Your Rump
Gold Member
This is certainly not new. Games such as Octopath Traveler and Xenoblade 2 have been out of print for a while.
That said, this could potentially be confirmation that Switch 2 will not have a game card slot.
That said, this could potentially be confirmation that Switch 2 will not have a game card slot.
StereoVsn
Member
Doubt it as a lot of copies have been sold for all these titles.
MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
To sell you the game again on their next hardware.
A couple of games will probably rise in price a bit, but the situation is nothing like the GameCube.
A lot of the (now) valuable games on GameCube sold in the 10's or maybe 100's of thousands. Most of these games on Switch have sold millions and are readily available on the eshop.
They always do this with a few titles. Pretty sure ARMS has been "out of print" for awhile now.
Partly it rewards those who buy and keep their games.
Also almost always done with poorer selling titles so it's an inventory management thing as well for retail.
Nowadays "out of print" doesn't mean much given the games are still in digital stores.
I saw that longer list but ...skeptical it is accurate.
Partly it rewards those who buy and keep their games.
Also almost always done with poorer selling titles so it's an inventory management thing as well for retail.
Nowadays "out of print" doesn't mean much given the games are still in digital stores.
I saw that longer list but ...skeptical it is accurate.
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Shadowstar39
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Tha happens more on Xbox. I couldn't believe when I got a series x that both splinter cells, both bad companies, silent hill dp mortal kombat 9 and others all gone from the store for no reason. I had to hunt them as disc's. Something these companies want to get rid of. I really hope Nintendo isn't ditching the carts.
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
This is somewhat accurate. 10 really surprises me as that launched barely 2-years ago. Same with Metroid: Dread. A few of these I know are still in a local gaming retailer quite frequently. Paper Mario: The Origami King sucks to hear it's going oop. Don't have it yet and wasn't planning on spending more than it's regular retail pricing.
Wife brought Mario Maker 2 as a gift a few weeks back. She said she checked 3 stores before finding it. Not sure if that's an indicator of oop status but scarcity at retailers often can sometimes drive sales too. Last one I'll mention is Link's Awakening. Seems to have vanished around where I am about a year ago.
