Nintendo Reveals New Switch Bundles for North America and Europe - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 05 September 2023 / 3,350 Views
Nintendo has revealed a new of new Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite Bundles that will be available in North America on October 6 and in Europe on October 20.
In North America, a Nintendo Switch that includes a free copy of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and three months of Nintendo Switch Online will be available for $299.99. That is a savings of nearly $70.
In Europe, a Nintendo Switch Sports bundle will be available that also includes three months of Nintendo Switch Online.
Both regions will be getting two Nintendo Switch Lite bundles that include a free copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons and each will have a unique Animal Crossing-themed design. The bundles will be available for $199.99 each for a savings of $60.
The Isabelle's Aloha Edition is a pink Switch Lite console and will be exclusive to Target in North America, while the Timmy & Tommy's Aloha Edition is a blue Switch Lite console and will be exclusive to Walmart in North America.
Also available 10/6, two new Nintendo Switch Lite bundles for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, featuring leaf designs and a digital copy of the game!
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) September 5, 2023
The Nintendo Switch Lite (Isabelle’s Aloha Edition) Bundle will be available exclusively at Target, and the Nintendo Switch Lite… pic.twitter.com/VK5Bh08I4j
New #NintendoSwitch console bundles are on the way!
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) September 5, 2023
You can pick up the #NintendoSwitch Sports bundle or one of two #AnimalCrossingNewHorizons Nintendo Switch Lite bundles from 20/10. pic.twitter.com/jf6k9NQeEA
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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This is a really good idea.
Smash and Zelda bundles would be great down the line as well to appeal to some more core players.
So these are price cuts, they're just not calling them that. I think it makes a lot of sense, and is necessary to keep Switch sales strong for their final year or so.
Very nice to see, I'd been thinking they should do this in fact. A price-cut was never really likely after the inflation, but this is the next best thing, and giving away some codes for digital games doesn't really cost them anything so if it gets new owners onboard its definitely worth it.
Edit: It might be worthwhile for them to make even more options though like BotW and Smash, that appeal to very different players than something like Switch Sports.
People overestimate inflation. It's not like prices doubled in the past few years. They could EASILY do a $50 price cut and still be making plenty of profit on every system sold. Switch was rumored to cost less than $260 at launch, and despite inflation it certainly costs a good bit less in 2023 now that the technology in the system is very old. Switch I bet doesn't cost much more than $200 to make these days inflation included.
Anyway, bundling a game is a better deal for the company than a straight price cut so makes sense they would do a bundle to increase sales first and only do a price cut later on if they absolutely have to.
After 6.5 years this is the first time they're actually take some active pricing step to increase sales. It'll be interesting to see how much the bundles increase sales in Europe and North America which are very much lagging behind Japanese sales these days.
Inflation is causing platforms to increase in price in many territories, the Switch not moving in price effectively looked like a price cut in contrast. Nintendo set the precedent that they don't want to drop hardware cost pretty harshly during the 3DS and Wii U era, so get used to it.
getting ready for black-friday!
No oled versions though
Clear that overstock baby! Switch 2 is coming!
Oh wow. Nintendo for the first time actually taking some initiative to increase sales. I guess makes sense since Switch is still going super strong in Japan but its sales have been slowing elsewhere.
They've sold almost 130million consoles how much more do they really need to do.
Is it the third time in a row that Nintendo offers this Mario Kart bundle during the holidays? It seems they're out of ideas :D
They've been doing this since at least 2019. Last year the 3 months of NSO were newly added. This is more like tradition than lack of ideas.
they've been doing this since 2018, 6 years in a row of Mario Kart 8 Bundle
