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# They'll Just Let Any Old Slop Onto The eShop [Update]
- URL: https://aftermath.site/unpacking-nintendo-eshop-switch/
- Published: 2024-12-17T20:11:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-27T17:10:21.000Z
- Author: Luke Plunkett
- Tags: Video Games, eshop, nintendo, nintendo switch, switch, unpacking, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-27 13:00

Hey, so you know how Nintendo will drop a lawsuit on someone from 10,000 feet for even whispering a suggestion of a thought about one of their own properties? Do you think the company cares as much about the rights of *other* people's games on their platforms?

Hrm, I dunno, let's take a look. Anyone who's tried to wade through the garbage prominently available on the eShop would already have some doubts about the company’s standards on that front already, but for a more specific case study, check this out:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/bafkreibv4m6sglpa2rpxmec2hjbfg6g22xuwbmspl7jctzprse5hznavkq-w-710-1.jpg)

On the top left is *Unpacking*, which is a very good video game. The next five games are most definitely not *Unpacking*, even though their key art makes them very much look like it. They're not made by the same team, they're not continuations or sequels, they're just some slop--seemingly using AI art on the thumbnails, no less--made to try to cash in on the established game's brand.

That's some mobile gaming-type bullshit. Surely Nintendo--with the company's history of quality control and video game litigiousness--would not allow such a thing? Like, if *Super Mario Galaxy's* shop listing was immediately followed by an AI-generated thumbnail for *Super Mario Galaxy: New Chapters*, someone would end up either bankrupted or strangled and stuffed in the back of a black Toyota Crown.

Here, though, even *Unpacking's* creators are being left on read. This is[ Wren Brier](https://bsky.app/profile/wrenegade.bsky.social?ref=aftermath.site), the game's creative director:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/30/f5/30f5b1bb-84ee-4c26-b446-fb9a5e512994/content/images/2025/10/wren-1.png)

At time of posting these *Unpacking* clones are available for download in Australia, Europe and Japan, but not the United States.

I've contacted Nintendo for comment.

**UPDATE 5:40pm ET**: *While Nintendo has yet to reply to Aftermath's query, the clones have now been removed from the Australian, European and Japanese stores.*

**UPDATE 2, 7:00pm ET**: *Brier [says](https://bsky.app/profile/wrenegade.bsky.social/post/3ldk2k3lij224?ref=aftermath.site) the clones are, however, still available for purchase "in Korea, Hong Kong, all of South & Central America, and South Africa".*