Nintendo Appears To Be Winding Down Production Of Certain Switch Games

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We know Nintendo is up to something, we just don't know what that something is yet. A new console is almost certainly coming as we approach the seventh anniversary of the Switch's launch, but Nintendo hasn't told us what that console is yet. It hasn't even revealed it's working on something. The evidence an announcement is imminent continues to stack up though, the latest indicator being the absence of popular Switch games on the majority of store shelves.

Nintendeal appears to have been the first to notify Switch owners that certain games are disappearing from retailers, suggesting that they are out of print. Pikmin 3 Deluxe was the first big title to start disappearing with just one major retailer in the US still having it in stock. If you planned on picking up a physical copy of Pikmin 3 on Switch, I would do it now. The only place it's left in stock is Walmart, and you can buy it through the link in the box below.

One game alone isn't enough to suggest Nintendo is shifting its focus from Switch games to titles on whatever's coming next, but then the same happened to Metroid Dread. Samus's latest 2D adventure has been disappearing from store shelves as well, suggesting it too is now out of print. Much like Pikmin 3 Deluxe, there now appears to be just one place physical copies of Dread remain in stock - Best Buy, and again, you can access its store page and buy it through the link below.

Pikmin 3 Deluxe is an enhanced port of the classic strategy puzzle game from Nintendo, launched in 2020 for Nintendo Switch. You must harness an army of Pikmin to explore the planet PNF-404. 

The third suspect is a little less telling. Physical copies of Paper Mario: The Origami King are notoriously hard to find right now too,