Scalpers Are Selling Metroid Prime Remastered Physical Copies for Ridiculous Prices Online
The physical release of Metroid Prime Remastered is being re-sold at ridiculous prices online thanks to scalpers. Nintendo has a bad habit of sometimes not producing enough product to meet demand. Some fans have gone as far as to accuse Nintendo of doing this on purpose to create artificial scarcity and scare people into going out and buying its products, but while that has not been proven, the fact of the matter is it's a repeat issue with the Big N.
The latest instance of this was with the physical release of Metroid Prime Remastered, the remastered version of the GameCube classic that shadow dropped to critical acclaim in early February. When Metroid Prime Remastered first released, it only had a digital version available, but Nintendo recently released a physical version of the game as well. Unfortunately, it's been extremely difficult for people to get their hands on a physical copy of Metroid Prime Remastered.
Metroid Prime Remastered Player Icons Reportedly Coming to Nintendo Switch Online
Limited supplies have resulted in problems like Metroid Prime Remastered pre-orders being delayed or canceled and major retailers failing to have any copies of the game in stock at all. As one might imagine, this has energized scalpers who have gone out and purchased as many physical copies of Metroid Prime Remastered as possible to then turn around and sell the game for ridiculous prices on sites like eBay. At the time of this writing, Metroid Prime Remastered physical copies are being sold for $100, even though the game is only supposed to cost $39.99.
The $39.99 price tag for Metroid Prime Remastered was already controversial enough, considering it's a remaster of a game that's over 20 years old. Others would argue that the
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