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If you meant to buy before the increase, it already happened on 1 Sep. Here's what the Switch 2 costs now, where, why the old price probably isn't coming back, and the bundle that beats $499.99 today.
Ledger · Sep 25 · 6 min
Valve took the Steam Deck OLED to $789 in May, and Nintendo took the Switch 2 to $499.99 in September. The gap is now $289. Here's what each company said, and the question that should really decide it.
Ledger · Sep 25 · 5 min
Every Switch 2 bundle priced against its parts on the same day. One saves $76.87, one saves $29.99, and one costs $20 more with no game in the box.
Ledger · Sep 25 · 5 min
Hidetaka Miyazaki says FromSoftware's back-to-back multiplayer games were never the plan — and single-player is still the heart of the studio.
Hitbox · Aug 25 · 6 min
Circana's 2026 numbers put Xbox at just over 4% of new physical game sales in the US, miles behind Nintendo's 63% and PlayStation's 32%.
Hitbox · Aug 22 · 6 min
PlayStation 5 unit sales fell 58% and Xbox hit its worst month ever after price hikes tied to the AI memory shortage — while Switch 2 grew 38% by holding its price. That's about to change.
Hitbox · Aug 21 · 7 min
The full trilogy collection launches October 8 as a native, physical Switch 2 release — two days after the cloud version everyone's been using gets shut off.
Chiptune · Aug 17 · 5 min
Tarnished Edition launches August 28 at $79.99. A year ago the first public build ran under 20fps — here's what actually changed.
Hitbox · Aug 15 · 6 min
AMD, Nvidia, Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo all raised prices in 2026. it's the same memory shortage breaking every platform.
Voltage · Aug 5 · 7 min
Splatoon Raiders is the first spin-off the series has ever had, it's PvE rather than turf war, and it lands July 23. I've got one real worry about it, and it isn't the thing most people are complaining about.
Hitbox · Jul 20 · 7 min
Nintendo is raising the Switch 2 from $449.99 to $499.99 in the US on September 1. the reason it's giving isn't trade policy — it's the same AI-driven memory shortage jacking up GPU prices all year.
Hitbox · Jul 20 · 5 min
19.86 million units in year one, outselling the PS5, best US launch since the Game Boy Advance. and yet Nintendo's own forecast says next year sells fewer. the gap between those two facts is the real story.
Hitbox · Jul 20 · 5 min
a Korean supply-chain report says Samsung is pushing to supply a full-HD OLED panel for a Switch 2 revision. the same report says mass production might not start until late 2027 — and Nintendo just raised prices.
Hitbox · Jul 20 · 5 min
the one remake fans have begged for since 1998 is real — a ground-up Ocarina of Time, Switch 2 exclusive, 'in 2026.' no gameplay, no date, no developer. the silence is doing a lot of work.
Chiptune · Jul 19 · 5 min
Kingdom Hearts IV is coming to Switch 2 at launch — running natively, not streamed. and the whole I-III collection goes native on October 8. for Nintendo owners, that's the real headline.
Hitbox · Jul 19 · 5 min
the EU forced Nintendo to make the Switch 2 battery user-replaceable, and it costs about 1% of capacity. I'd take that trade every single time — and I suspect every handheld maker is about to face the same choice.
Voltage · Jul 19 · 7 min