Both Nintendo and Amazon have denied claims that the Japanese gaming giant pulled its product from Amazon U.S. and refused to launch its Switch 2 on the platform due to a disagreement over unauthorized sales. A Bloomberg report claims the two got into a spat over third-party merchants undercutting the price of Nintendo games, ultimately resulting in the Switch 2 not launching on Amazon during its release last month.
According to the report, Nintendo stopped selling products on Amazon after it noticed third-party merchants in the U.S. were selling games at prices lower than those advertised by Nintendo. It is reported that sellers were buying the products in bulk from Southeast Asia and exporting them to the U.S., before reselling them on the cheap through the marketplace.
