The Swap 2 {hardware} will nonetheless retail for its initially introduced $449.99, alongside a $499.99 bundle together with a digital obtain of Mario Kart World. Nintendo revealed Thursday that the Mario Kart bundle will solely be produced “by way of Fall 2025,” although, and can solely be obtainable “whereas provides final.” Mario Kart World will retail for $79.99 by itself, whereas Donkey Kong Bananza will launch in July for a $69.99 MSRP.

Most business analysts expected Nintendo to hold the price for the Switch 2 hardware steady, whilst Trump’s wide-ranging tariffs threatened to boost the associated fee the corporate incurred for methods in-built China and Vietnam. “I imagine it’s now too late for Nintendo to drive up the value additional, if that ever was an possibility within the first place,” Kantan Video games’ Serkan Toto told GamesIndustry.biz. “So far as tariffs go, Nintendo was taking a look at a black field all the best way till April 2, identical to all people else. As a {hardware} producer, Nintendo probably ran simulations to get to a worth that might make them tariff-proof as a lot as attainable.”

However that pricing calculus won’t maintain without end. “If the tariffs persist, I feel a worth improve in 2026 is likely to be on the desk,” Ampere Evaluation’ Piers Harding-Rolls told GameSpot. “Nintendo shall be treading very rigorously contemplating the significance of the US market.”

Because the Swap 2 launch particulars had been introduced earlier this month, Nintendo’s official promotional livestreams have been inundated with messages begging the company to “DROP THE PRICE.”