Discussion Where are the listings for the Nintendo's first-party announcements from the June 2024 Nintendo Direct?

[3dsboss]

I am not sure if this demands a thread of its own but something interesting or unique that I have seen for last week's Nintendo Direct is that none of the larger retailers in the Americas nor the Americas e-Shop have listings for any of the first-party announcements. This seems like the first time this has happened where, usually, an hour or two after the Nintendo Direct airs, listings on the e-Shop and at retailers like GameStop start to pop-up, usually in-line with pre-orders as well, but this time was different. Could this be something to do with the prevalence of leaks over the last year of Nintendo Directs (and something that did not happen in relation to the last Nintendo Direct)? Maybe, as speculated previously with listings from Walmart and Amazon, maybe Nintendo is in negotiations with retailers or have seen that this is where leaks are coming from typically (both for announcements and then the games getting out early)? I am not sure but I just wanted to mention it as it is something is very interesting to me (especially as someone that typically does pre-order the physical copies of games once I can)! I believe listings outside of the Americas have popped up, which makes it also very interesting...!

Again, I am not sure if this warrants a new thread but I think it could be an interesting discussion for a little while!

Update 06/26/2024 @ 1:43 P.M.:

Nintendo has opened the listings and pre-orders!

Mario and Luigi: Brothership - https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/mario-and-luigi-brothership-switch/

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom - https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/the-legend-of-zelda-echoes-of-wisdom-switch/

Mario Party Jamboree - https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/super-mario-party-jamboree-switch/

Donkey Kong Country Returns HD -

Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

No Metroid Prime 4: Beyond as of yet!

Update 06/26/2024 @ 8:11 P.M.:

GameStop and BestBuy have now put up their listings for the announcements (outside of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond):

BestBuy (Via Wario64) -

GameStop (via Wario64) -

 

[Rareware]

Something has definitely changed. I always pre-order at Best Buy and they tend to always have the games up for pre-order that same day or the following day. Been over a week now and nothing has been listed.

 

[ILikeFeet]

Mario & Luigi™: Brothership for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Mario & Luigi™: Brothership and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

 

[3dsboss]

Mario & Luigi™: Brothership for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Mario & Luigi™: Brothership and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

OH!!! Did these just go up (would you know that by chance)? I have been checking everyday ! Maybe I should have said something earlier HAHA

Edit: Maybe these did just go up? I usually use the search function on the MyNintendo Store and, as of an hour ago, Mario and Luigi and Echoes of Wisdom were not being recognized! They are not though... Interesting, interesting!

 

[3dsboss]

Something has definitely changed. I always pre-order at Best Buy and they tend to always have the games up for pre-order that same day or the following day. Been over a week now and nothing has been listed.

Yup, same here! It usually has been GameStop or BestBuy for me! In September, I believe BestBuy had them up fairly quickly after the Direct - possibly quicker than normal too

 

[Josh5890]

I've thought about making this thread for a day or so.

It is rather interesting because like you said, pre-orders for most first party games go up immediately after a direct. None of the first party games in last week's direct though ended with "Pre-order today on the eshop". I can understand if Nintendo was trying to limit retailer pre-orders given some recent actions, but the lack of digital pre-orders right now is more eye opening.

I'm inclined to believe that this is some sort of a new marketing strategy by Nintendo. Given that we are only three months out from Zelda releasing, it will be interesting to see how long we go before it goes up for pre-order.

Edit: @ILikeFeet casually dropped listings lol

 

[franzen23]

Mario & Luigi™: Brothership for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Mario & Luigi™: Brothership and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

do we know if these are eligible for the game vouchers?

 

[Linkstrikesback]

I've thought about making this thread for a day or so.

It is rather interesting because like you said, pre-orders for most first party games go up immediately after a direct. None of the first party games in last week's direct though ended with "Pre-order today on the eshop". I can understand if Nintendo was trying to limit retailer pre-orders given some recent actions, but the lack of digital pre-orders right now is more eye opening.

I'm inclined to believe that this is some sort of a new marketing strategy by Nintendo. Given that we are only three months out from Zelda releasing, it will be interesting to see how long we go before it goes up for pre-order.

Edit: @ILikeFeet casually dropped listings lol

It's looking likely that Pyoro and/or whoever they were getting information from were scraping data from eshop listings and the delay on pages may well be in response to that.

 

[ILikeFeet]

do we know if these are eligible for the game vouchers?

all nintendo games are eligible for vouchers

 

[Rareware]

It's looking likely that Pyoro and/or whoever they were getting information from were scraping data from eshop listings and the delay on pages may well be in response to that.

With the listings going up now, I can only imagine that Nintendo’s ninjas have located and roasted the bird and executed the chatty Kathy that was singing to the leaky beaky. Targets eliminated, back to business!

 

[Ricimer]

Nintendo seems to be in a pissing contest with retailers stemming from TOTK leaks. Amazon and Walmart didn't do pre-orders from TTYD HD and LM2.

 

[3dsboss]

I've thought about making this thread for a day or so.

It is rather interesting because like you said, pre-orders for most first party games go up immediately after a direct. None of the first party games in last week's direct though ended with "Pre-order today on the eshop". I can understand if Nintendo was trying to limit retailer pre-orders given some recent actions, but the lack of digital pre-orders right now is more eye opening.

I'm inclined to believe that this is some sort of a new marketing strategy by Nintendo. Given that we are only three months out from Zelda releasing, it will be interesting to see how long we go before it goes up for pre-order.

Yeah, I was going to make it yesterday as a "One week since the Direct-type of thing" but it slipped my mind haha.

It is something that did interest me for that same reason. Even if the pre-orders were not available yet, the listings were not even available which I feel like probably would have been needed to advertise the announcements on the Switch e-Shop or anything. They have the new Professor Layton as a listing on the store, just without the pre-order being available for instance. It would be interesting to see if they end up going this route though with marketing! We already see them shortening the announcement to release period so maybe pre-orders will follow a similar path?

Edit: @ILikeFeet casually dropped listings lol

I knew this was going to happen the second I posted this thread . I checked like 45 minutes ago and they weren't there yet so I figured it would be now or never haha!

 

[bayonetta]

 

[Rareware]

Lol that timing!

 

[Neverx]

Mario & Luigi™: Brothership for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Mario & Luigi™: Brothership and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

I can't believe they are charging $60 for DCKR HD
Waiting for the physical releases to go up now.

 

[3dsboss]

NO WAY

 

[Kartina]

I guess we're just paying for Pyoro's sins.

 

[Joe]

Apparently the key to get Nintendo to do something is to make a Famiboards thread asking why Nintendo hasn't done it yet.

 

[Thunder84]

Hopefully they’ve resolved the Amazon issue, although I have my doubts.

 

[Lugia667]

lol

 

[Dragoncaine]

Best Buy put your B2G1 deal back up NOW lol

 

[Porygon]

Mario & Luigi™: Brothership for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Mario & Luigi™: Brothership and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy Donkey Kong Country™ Returns HD and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site

Buy The Legend of Zelda™: Echoes of Wisdom and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.

www.nintendo.com

Give me the Best Buy listings pls

 

[totofogo]

This thread had wild timing, I myself was looking earlier this morning (for zelda to put in my avatar lol) and nothing was yet up

 

[browneyes84]

What am I missing about that Zelda tweet?

The $60 price tag?

 

[ILikeFeet]

Give me the Best Buy listings pls

not up yet

 

[Dragoncaine]

$60 for DKCR HD is heinous. Perfect example of a voucher game

 

[Rareware]

What am I missing about that Zelda tweet?

The $60 price tag?

That Nintendo tweeted the game is now up for pre-order just a few minutes after this thread was made. Uncanny timing.

 

[Derachi]

$60 for DKCR HD is heinous. Perfect example of a voucher game

Reminds me of this:

 

[OctoSplattack]

I can only assume an NOA employee decided to lurk on Famiboards during their lunch break and finally realized what that thing they forgot to do last week was.

 

[Rampo360]

I can't believe they are charging $60 for DCKR HD
Waiting for the physical releases to go up now.

Nintendo thanking me for buying their 15 years old full price remaster

Me who bought it from japanese eshop using vouchers paying less than 30€

 

[Lord Azrael]

So are Nintendo and Amazon still on their feud? At least Ace Attorney is on there now

 

[Jahranimo]

I think they did this because of Pyoro leaks.

 

[Pokemaniac]

It seems pretty likely that the listings were intentionally delayed to avoid leaks.

 

[Hocot8]

Best Buy put your B2G1 deal back up NOW lol

nah. They'll wait til Friday.

 

[bayonetta]

So are Nintendo and Amazon still on their feud? At least Ace Attorney is on there now

I think its related to piracy

 

[Rareware]

Listings are popping up on Best Buy now. Mario Party Jamboree, Mario & Luigi, Zelda, and DKC Returns.

 

[Neverx]

Finally, got Zelda, Mario Party and M&L pre-ordered with BB

 

[silkysmooth]

Goes to show you complaining on the internet is always the way to solve everything! =P

 

[Rareware]

All the listings up on GameStop too!

Only thing missing from GS and BB now is the Zelda themed Switch Lite. I imagine it’ll be going up as well any time now, so best of luck to those who want it!

 

[Dragoncaine]

I want to preorder from BB, but I'm still holding out hope that they'll bring back their B2G1 deal so I can resubscribe and take advantage again lol. From this Direct, I'd make two different deals between Zelda, Mario and Luigi, Mario Party, DKCR HD, Metroid Prime 4, and DQIII/Ace Attorney. BB also gave me a $10 coupon to use by end of the month, so fingers crossed

 

[3dsboss]

Well! That kind of brings an end to the (short) journey we had here ! I have updated the original post with the GameStop and Best Buy Links! I still think it is an interesting topic - Nintendo definitely held back their listings and delayed retailers putting up their listings, probably for leaks! I guess we will see what happens during the next Direct to confirm it all!

 

[Josh5890]

Well! That kind of brings to end the (short) journey we had here ! I have updated the original post with the GameStop and Best Buy Links! I still think it is an interesting topic - Nintendo definitely held back their listings and delayed retailers putting up their listings, probably for leaks! I guess we will see what happens during the next Direct to confirm it all!

Thank you for your service. Now please make a thread asking why Nintendo hasn't put up different colored N64 controllers on their online shop.

 

[Uncle Squingis]

Begs the question of whether or not it's worthwhile to potentially miss out on some preorders to avoid minor announcement leaks.