Despite Nintendo's continued assurance that it will reveal its next console before the end of the current fiscal year, the Switch has received a lot of attention throughout 2024 in the way of new games. However, some of those games have been slightly harder to come by for some of you as they've not been sold on Amazon. Whatever was going on between Nintendo and Amazon appears to have been smoothed over as The Legend Of Zelda: Echoes Of Wisdom is now available on the site.
Whatever has been going on between Nintendo and Amazon can be traced back to the beginning of April 2024. The site began canceling pre-orders for Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, two of Nintendo's big upcoming exclusives at the time, without explaining to those who had placed the pre-orders why they were being canceled.
At this stage, Furukawa doesn't believe the presence of a successor will have an effect.
Amazon didn't stop there either. Since then, not only have pre-orders for other new Switch games not been added to the site, but the games haven't been available to buy even after they have been released, at least...