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The bundle version of Splatoon Raiders for Nintendo Switch 2 has dropped to ¥61,199 (tax included, 6% off) on Amazon, setting a new all-time low. Reports of falling resale prices at flea markets and secondhand shops have been piling up too, and on 5ch the talk centered on the spin-off’s weak sales — likely due to its lack of DLC and online multiplayer — set against the limited-edition Zelda bundle released around the same time, which remains hard to find in stock.
What people said
・Mario Kart World
・Himitsu-ten (Secret Exhibition)
・Wheelchair Basketball
・Raiders
・Air Rider
・Star Fox
・Mario Tennis Fever
・Yoshi
What about Bananza?
Don't forget Metroid Prime 4 (MetPra4)
It hasn't gone back up
https://amzn.asia/d/00bSsHzw
Don't need this junk anyway.
・Mario Kart World
・Himitsu-ten (Secret Exhibition)
・Bananza
・Wheelchair Basketball
・Raiders
・Air Rider
・Star Fox
・Mario Tennis Fever
・Yoshi
Just keeps dropping, dropping, dropping (a play on words riffing on the price crash)
500 yen lol
One-Coin Raiders
Currently
¥61,199 -6% ¥61,199 (tax included)
On PS they'd dump it for cheaper than the console alone, but here they're being stingy.
The Marketplace is still selling it for ¥60,500
Though the Amazon-sold-and-shipped listing is ¥63,549
The buyback price is way below retail, yet people keep selling it anyway — kind of strange.
Google it and it turns out they don't buy from individuals, only bulk new-stock buybacks for businesses.
Maybe it's a retailer trying to clear out inventory? 🤣
So that's why 30 units suddenly vanished from Edion (electronics retail chain)
Wish they'd sell download codes like Sony does.
Guess cracking down hard on scalping cuts both ways.
The buyback price is just low, that's all
Until Pokémon, Animal Crossing, or mainline Splatoon actually drops, it's not going to sell out.
There's linked gear coming for Splatoon 4, so you'd better buy it now lol
The pattern ends up being: buy the console alone first, then buy a game only once something you really want comes out.
Raiders is the kind of title people pick up as their second (or later) purchase, so a bundle version was always going to be a tough sell.
The Zelda limited edition was so appealing that, by contrast, it just highlights how plain and generic Raiders looks.
If they'd at least changed the color…
That's exactly why nobody wants that brought back up — read the room.
Metroid Prime 4
That one flopped hard too lol
Makes sense, it's priced close to the OLED model.
Wherever still has Zelda in stock, isn't that at a jacked-up scalper price?
Let me know if you find any at or under retail.
Leave it alone
That's a topic you don't touch.
It's sold out everywhere online, but in physical stores Joshin was still taking preorders as of a few days ago.
There was technically a members-only restriction, but I think non-members could just sign up for membership on the spot.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Because the Switch 2 console carries a hefty retail price, users tend to play it safe and pick a mainline title for their first purchase — leaving Raiders, a spin-off that skips online multiplayer and DLC, positioned as a “second purchase” title whose bundle version naturally has weaker appeal. On the thread, a “Switch 2 flop list” names several titles alongside Raiders, including Mario Kart World and Wheelchair Basketball — an easy point to miss is that this isn’t really about Raiders underperforming on its own, but rather one example of weak launch momentum across Switch 2 software as a whole. At the same time, some pointed out that it has “already passed FF16, the #2 best-selling PS5 title of all time,” so it’s not an entirely bleak picture. The price drop may also reflect scalpers and retailers clearing out inventory, so it’s worth being careful not to conflate weak retail sales with falling resale-market prices.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[Sad News] Splatoon Raiders Bundle Hits New Record Low lol.”
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