Nintendo Switch 2 Pokémon Legends: Z-A Bundle Announced for $500 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 22 July 2025 / 6,873 Views
Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have announced a new Nintendo Switch 2 bundle that includes a download code for Pokémon Legends Z-A - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition. The bundle will be available for $499.99 at the Nintendo Store and select retailers.
It isn't known yet, but the new bundle could possibly replace the current Mario Kart World Nintendo Switch 2 bundle, which is also priced at $499.99. The bundle was stated to be available for a "limited time."
The new bundle includes Pokémon Legends Z-A - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition will also be available for a "limited time." However, Nintendo hasn't stated how long it will be available for.
Pokémon Legends: Z-A will launch for the Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch on October 16.
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The Mario Kart World Bundle will be available until the end of October 2025.
So this will be the new bundle going into the Holidays.
I felt like the MK Bundle would be available through the end of this year, but since they did say Fall and this new bundle releases in October, it could be the case that this bundle replaces it.
Terrible bundle. Stock standard Switch 2 with a code in a box.
Would have liked Nintendo/Gamefreak to put in a bit more effort, maybe some artistic design on the Dock and Console itself.
Doesn't need to be a different "model" per-say.
Pokemon is a massive game franchise and will sell hardware, so having a console with some Pokemon branding would have been good.
Plus it's not releasing until later this year, Nintendo would have time to sort out the eggs in it's basket.
I would call it a different model. But whatever you call it, it introduces manufacturing complexities when they're least needed. Beyond that, it makes more sense to introduce a special model to renew interest when it's waining.
Plus, and perhaps the best reason, I would personally be super pissed off about it, and I'm probably not the only one. It feels like a punishment for early adopters. I know obviously there are going to be special editions down the line, but I bought a plain jane Switch anyway because having it at least a year or so early is worth not getting a cool design. But if I knew I could have waited four months to have a special edition one, I would have waited.
So, I think there are some pretty good reasons why they would not want to do that, and I can't think of a good reason to do it. At this point they are going to sell pretty much whatever they produce anyway, so I dunno why they would want to do that.
Nah. Special editions should exist all through a consoles lifecycle... And often do.
Some of my favorite special edition consoles were in the early parts of the lifecycle of a platform anyway... Case in point the Pokemon Let's Go special edition Switch console was released only about a year and a half after the Switch launched.... And we both know it sold an extra 140 million consoles since then.
Even then, they don't need to make a custom-variant of the console, just some value-added Pokemon themed inclusions would be something... And perhaps not a stupid code to download the game, but rather a proper physical release.
Maybe I am just becoming sick and tired of digital releases in general with consoles... I bought the base variant of the Switch 2 and a physical copy of Mario Kart world because I didn't want a digital copy.
"I know obviously there are going to be special editions down the line, but I bought a plain jane Switch anyway because having it at least a year or so early is worth not getting a cool design."
Literally stated in my earlier post that my expectation was that special editions would be available, at earliest, about a year or so after launch. So, showing a special edition from closer to two years after the Switch's launch didn't really accomplish much for you.
Now, are we really going to pretend that a year and a half (plus) post launch is the same as four months post launch?
We were talking about whether your counter-example "eroded my point". My point was that I don't think Nintendo would release a special edition too close to launch. "My expectation" was relevant not because my beliefs are special, but because it clearly defined what I meant by too close to launch. If I say I don't think Nintendo should release a special edition 4 months after launch, and you counter by saying they released one 20 months after launch one time, that clearly makes no sense. Saying your expectation differs is a non-sensical non-sequitor.
In addition, it was just a pretty bad point on its own, because, regardless of your expectation, there is a pretty obvious difference between releasing a special edition 20 months post launch and four months post launch. It is so obvious that you are refusing to answer whether you really believe that is an apt comparison, because the answer is obviously no, of course it isn't.
Instead of acknowledging this, you have tried to reframe your point as "all massive first party releases should have a special edition console". Which is not at all what we had been discussing. Perhaps we could have discussed that if you ackowledged that your original counterargument was wrong, but I'm not interested in chasing a moving goalpost. I will say though, that releasing a special edition for every AAA game would mean at least 5 special editions in launch year (Mario Kart World, DK Bananza, Pokemon ZA, Metroid Prime 4, Kirby Air Riders) depending on how you define AAA game. And likely one or two more to be added by year's end. That would certainly be out of the ordinary.
Since you have refused to answer a basic yes or no question and instead made a very transparent attempt to wriggle out of it, I'll take that as you conceding that your counterpoint was really not a very good one, and that my original point therefore stands. No further input from you is required. Saying "you know that really wasn't a good example, my bad" would probably make you seem less silly, but I'm not gonna tell you how to live your life.
Nah, since Iwata passed this new Nintendo is all about making as much $$$ through as little effort as possible.
Changing the game bundled with a system is not really a new thing for them. The Wii came with a variety of different pack in games without any real change to the system itself except maybe color. Wii Sports, NSMB, and Mario Kart Wii were all bundled at one point.
People are already buying the Mario Kart bundle. This bundle just offers you a chance to get a different game with the Switch. For people who like Pokemon better than Mario Kart, it's a good thing. For people who think the Switch 2 was a poor value already, this is equally poor. I don't get why anyone would be particularly miffed about this though.
Buying a game where you don't own the game lol,
Does the switch 1 version of pokemon z-a an actually game or is it also just a key card? Sorry for asking a bit dumb nowadays to use Google
nintendo first party games are on the card.
