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Switch 2 Resellers Drive Thriving Market in Japan Despite Crackdown

Customers use Nintendo Co. Switch 2 game consoles to play the Mario Kart World video game at a Bic Camera Inc. electronics store in Tokyo on June 5 after the device was released.

Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Mayumi Negishi reports on the backlash against scalpers who are finding ways to obtain and sell the new Switch 2 game console outside the authorized retail outlets.

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