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Soundwave on 13 January 2026
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Leynos said:
Soundwave said:

The Mario Kart bundle which is like 95% of the Switch 2 inventory is $499.99 MSRP. Maybe you can find a discount here and there, but that's not the MSRP. The $450 model Nintendo makes in extremely low quantities because that's not the profit margin they want. 

The Christmas Day 2024 leaker got that correct too, he/she should be credited for that when a lot of people were giving him grief and saying Mario Kart couldn't be a launch title/pack-in (I said Mario Kart would be the ideal pick for a launch title that Nintendo would want also). 

A lot of the stupid things said essentially seem to boil down to "Nintendo hasn't done that in the past or at least in the recent past as I understand it so that can't possibly happen" ... which is a dumb way of looking at things. 

Mario Kart bundle was discontinued. I bought the $450 model tbh

Just very recently. The $500 Mario Kart bundle is the one Nintendo was shipping like 95% of their units up until now (several months after launch). I know that literally because I have a friend who is a Gamestop manager and he showed me their allotment of systems state wide, it was virtually all the Mario Kart bundle, the $450 model was in extremely limited quantities. The plan was likely to bump the price UP to $500 standard with no game after Christmas, but because sales in the holiday period may have been a little softer than expected due to a bad economy, they probably had second thoughts about doing that. 

As I've said, anyone who is budget conscious should probably buy at $450 if they can get it at that price, Nintendo clearly wants the $500 price point to be the standard and have several valid reasons (tariffs, RAM inflation) to raise the price. Don't assume that price is going to last and then come here afterwards bitching about how Nintendo screwed you, there is a lot of smoke that the price could get raised. The $500 bundle with Mario Kart will likely return again in the fall like Nintendo tends to do.