Several of Nintendo’s most popular first-party games like Super Mario Odyssey and more started disappearing from stores, leading fans to speculate about the arrival of a Nintendo Switch successor.
The Twitter account and deal tracker Nintendeal first noticed that the physical release of Paper Mario: The Origami King was apparently out of print with big retailers no longer offering the game for shipping, pickup, or otherwise.
A larger list of Nintendo Switch games that have apparently gone out of print was put together by Discord user AShadowLink and ResetEra user Neoxon, including games like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening (2019), and others.
If these games are indeed out of print, it could mean that these Nintendo Switch games are being pulled from retailers so that they can be reprinted with new branding that signifies that they’re playable on both the Nintendo Switch and the Nintendo Switch 2.
Among the seemingly endless rumors about the new console are frequent suggestions that it’ll support the use of Nintendo Switch games, too, via backwards compatibility. If these games have reprints ahead of them, it bolsters theories that the Nintendo Switch 2 will be out this year.
Others have speculated that this could mean Nintendo is looking to revive its Nintendo Selects marketing strategy where it handpicks a number of defining first-party games and discounts them after they’ve been out for a while.
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