In a time where console price hikes have been a regular occurrence (including the Switch 2’s earlier this year), Nintendo has swooped in with a handy new promotion that can instead save you money by customising your own Switch 2 bundle.
It’s not just a single ‘console plus a very specific game for a few pounds off’, either; you first get to choose between one of two console SKUs, one of eight digital games, and one of five Nintendo Switch Online membership plans — letting you then select an accessory among various Switch 2 memory cards, controllers, console cases, and cameras (worth up to £49.99) for absolutely free.
Pick your console & games
To start, the consoles available include the à la carte Nintendo Switch 2 system for £395.99 or the boxed bundle including a digital copy of Pokémon Pokopia for £429.99. If you were planning on playing Pokopia anyway, you’ll be saving even more — as you’re essentially getting the Pokémon spin-off for only an added £34, which is £24.99 cheaper than the standard__ £58.99 Nintendo sells its digital copies for normally__.
For transparency, if you’re solely after this particular combo, you can currently grab the Switch 2 plus Pokémon Pokopia bundle for as low as £394.99 at Amazon UK, but Nintendo’s deal will still save you plenty if you were going to buy everything available in the offer anyway.
Speaking of, the next step of Nintendo’s ‘build your own bundle’ offer is selecting one of the following digital Switch 2 games:
- Nintendo Switch Sports Resort — £41.99
- Splatoon Raiders — £41.99
- Star Fox — £41.99
- Yoshi and the Mysterious Book — £49.99
- Donkey Kong Bananza — £58.99
- Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment — £58.99
- Kirby Air Riders — £58.99
- Mario Tennis Fever — £58.99
- Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave — £58.99
- Pokémon Pokopia — £58.99
- Mario Kart World — £66.99
Even if you choose the cheapest game from this list, the free accessory offer will still apply.
Pick an NSO membership
Thirdly, you need to choose a Nintendo Switch Online Membership to buy — ranging from a 90-day Individual subscription for £6.99, to a 12-month up to eight-member Family subscription with NSO and the Expansion Pack for £59.99.
If you have any other Nintendo Switch 1 or 2 owners in your family or friendship circle, we’d recommend buying the individual Switch Online Family Plan for £31.49 or the £59.99 Expansion Pack version.
Compared to an Individual 12-month membership for NSO at £17.99, you’re already saving money if you add just one other player to the plan (and they pay you back for their share, of course). Letting you add up to eight members, though, the £31.49 Family plan can cost you as little as £3.93 for a year’s membership each.
For £59.99, the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack Membership — including NSO and access to games from the GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, and Virtual Boy era — would cost you as little as £7.49 each for 12 months.
Your choice of free accessories
Finally, your special freebie to go with this special Nintendo Switch 2 bundle comes with a great selection of wired controllers, cases, and even the Piranha Plant camera. However, the most worthwhile pick is by far either the Samsung or SanDisk microSD Express Cards.
Worth £49.99 each, these 256GB memory cards are not only the most valuable free picks in this bundle, but also the most useful.
Because the Switch 2’s advanced tech is designed to load games at speeds the Nintendo platform hasn’t seen before, standard SD cards are far too slow to work on this new console — making these new models from the likes of Samsung and SanDisk the only way to expand the system’s 256GB of Universal Flash Storage.
If you’re expecting to play a lot of different games over the years ahead, going with a free memory upgrade is definitely the most practical.
That said, if you’re more of a casual gamer, any of the Pokémon cases (including the Eevee Cottage Core or Gengar and Mimikyu) are pretty great backups, as well. The same goes for any of the controllers if you want to be ready for an extra player to race on Mario Kart World with.