A Mario Game Has Been Removed From the Nintendo Switch eShop

If you were hoping to pick up a copy of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 for the Switch, your only option now is the physical route, as the game has been delisted from all digital storefronts, Nintendo eShop included.

The Event That Never (Technically) Happened

There’s a certain irony to this delisting. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 was released to celebrate the 2020 games–an event that, as we all know, was delayed to 2021 due to the global pandemic. In many ways, the game itself became a digital time capsule of an event that technically never took place as scheduled.

Now, just as the physical world has moved on, the digital storefront is closing its doors on this piece of history. If you’re a collector of these “lost” events, you might want to hunt down a physical cartridge before those become rare too!