Switch 2 Choose Your Game Bundle for $500 Launches in June - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 12 May 2026 / 3,022 Views
Nintendo has announced a Nintendo Switch 2 Choose Your Game bundle will become available in early June for a suggested retail price of $499.99 for a limited time.
The bundle includes a digital download code that can be used to redeem one of three games - Mario Kart World or Donkey Kong Bananza or Pokémon Pokopia.
Read the press release below:
Starting in early June, participating retailers will offer the Nintendo Switch 2: Choose Your Game Bundle for the suggested retail price of $499.99, which includes a Nintendo Switch 2 system and a download code that can be redeemed for a digital version of one select game.
The bundle will be available for a limited time at participating retailers and offers a value of up to $29.99 compared to purchasing the system and game separately, with a choice of Mario Kart World or Donkey Kong Bananza or Pokémon Pokopia.
Nintendo Switch 2 delivers a more powerful and upgraded experience, offering ways for friends and family to connect and play together – anytime, anywhere. Enjoy games at up to 4K resolution, explore the mouse control functionality of the reimagined Joy-Con 2 controllers in compatible games and use the GameChat feature to feel like you’re playing right next to friends and family, even if they’re miles away.
Every Nintendo Switch 2: Choose Your Game Bundle comes with a download code that can be redeemed for a digital version of one of the following adventures on Nintendo Switch 2:
- Mario Kart World is the biggest Mario Kart game yet! Hit the open road with Mario and friends across a vast interconnected environment, where players can race seamlessly across connected courses that deliver Mario Kart racing like never before. Packed with places to go, races to win and the ability to explore the in-game world at your own pace, Mario Kart World is fast-paced fun (or leisurely exploring) for longtime fans and newcomers alike.
- Donkey Kong Bananza features (literal) ground-breaking exploration as you destroy your way through layer after layer as Donkey Kong and Pauline. With DK’s brute force and Pauline’s special singing abilities, you can crash through walls, carve tunnels with your fists, punch straight down into the ground, and even tear off chunks of terrain to swing around and throw. The more you smash, the more areas open up to explore. Pauline’s singing can also empower Donkey Kong with different Bananza Transformations, each with its own unique power. Join them as they delve deep underground – and discover that this subterranean world is a lot more than it seems on the surface.
- Pokémon Pokopia is a charming life sim where you play as a Ditto who has transformed to look like a human and is trying to restore a withered world using their transformation skills and new crafting abilities. Get nice and cozy while you craft, create, build and befriend a variety of Pokémon in an empty land brimming with promising possibilities.
The Nintendo Switch 2: Choose Your Game Bundle will be available for a limited time while supplies last.
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This is the way to play the game, Nintendo.
Now do the same with Switch Lite bundles for $249 with your choice of MK8, Tomodachi Life or Animal Crossing and beat that 2m projection for the fiscal year.
FWIW, I was a day one Switch 2 adopter, and I absolutely love mine. It’s really everything I had hoped for from Switch 2 and more. If I hadn’t already bought mine, this bundle would have gotten me on board.
Some examples to start off,
1) Mario Kart World
2) Donkey Kong Banzana
3) Metroid Prime 4
4) Star Fox (Upcoming)
And all the Switch 2 Preformance enchancment patches for games like BOTW, TOTK and Xenoblades etc.
Nintendo’s not doing that with the NSLite because they want move moving into the NS2 ecosystem, not NS1.
For the original and OLED models I would agree based on their current prices and the relative value compared to just going for Switch 2 instead. But the Lite caters to a different demographic - one that is not interested in spending $450+ on a game system and certainly not before it has an established library.
Getting the Lite into people's hands now (especially kids) would be a way to sell more games, more NSO accounts and incentive to upgrade to a Switch 2 for those who would be interested in the pricey current gen eventually. Its function would be no different than past Nintendo handhelds only now people's games and accounts are fully transferable to its new console. And there is no other game system currently available that can come within $150 of Switch Lite, even at $229.
EDIT: Actually just realized that the original Switch model isn't priced as high as I thought. Nintendo needs to do bundles with it as well.
Nintendo is right now the only one who can make this kind of deals thanks to its exclusives. Well Mario Kart World is a good deal if you now the cost of the game, Pokopia also is a good deal too and DK Bananza is a good choice if you want a 3D game that is not Mario or Zelda.
