Nintendo Finally Ends Its Unexplained Freeze-Out With Amazon, and the Switch 2 Might Be Next

After much than a twelvemonth of near-total absence, speech from a rogue Echoes of Wisdom listing, Amazon has yet resumed nonstop income of Nintendo-published Switch games successful the US.

The determination breaks a long-running freeze-out that saw Amazon skip each “sold and shipped by Amazon” listings for Switch 2 titles, disregard preorders entirely, and permission everything to third-party sellers.

Even aft the Switch 2 was officially announced earlier successful 2025, Amazon stayed silent, portion Walmart and Best Buy yet rolled retired their preorder pages pursuing Nintendo’s Switch 2-focused Direct, contempt immoderate delays.

Until now, lone third-party Switch 2 titles similar Sonic x Shadow: Generations were disposable to bid straight from Amazon. First-party motorboat games specified arsenic Mario Kart World and the Switch 2 Editions of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom were noticeably missing. That’s present changed.

While each of these are presently listed arsenic “Temporarily Out of Stock,” Amazon is present accepting orders, suggesting superior availability updates are connected the mode imminently.

Preorders for the Switch 2 exclusive Donkey Kong Bananza are besides present disposable astatine the online retailer, but Metroid Prime 4: Beyond and Pokémon Legends Z-A are inactive absent, astatine slightest for now.

So what astir the console successful general? Nintendo Switch 2 consoles are presently sold retired astatine each large retailer. While motorboat time banal was solid, helping the console displacement implicit 3.5 cardinal units successful conscionable 4 days worldwide, it's been pugnacious to travel by ever since.