New Nintendo Switch 2 bundles coming ahead of price increase

You can now pick one of 3 games, with a surprising inclusion

If you're thinking about grabbing a Switch 2 in the next few months before Nintendo raises the price, you're about to have some more options when it comes to game bundles.

From early June, Nintendo will offer a choice of three bundles — or rather, a single bundle which offers a choice of three games. The Nintendo Switch 2: Choose Your Game Bundle will include a download code that can be redeemed for a digital copy of either Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, or Pokémon Pokopia.

The bundle will cost $499.99, the same price as the Mario Kart World bundle that launched with the system. Effectively, you're getting the game for $50, a saving of $20 to $30 depending on the title. From Sept. 1, that's how much you'll pay for a Switch 2 with no game included.

It's a decent deal, then, allowing you to choose from three high-quality games, even if none of them is quite the gold-standard system-seller of a Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza were Nintendo's two big first-party games from the Switch 2's launch period.

Pokémon Pokopia is a more interesting inclusion. It's a spinoff, not a mainline Pokémon game, and in Japan it is technically published by The Pokémon Company and not Nintendo itself. But the game has been a sleeper hit, surprising even Nintendo with the strength of its sales; in a recent set of financial results, Nintendo revealed that Pokopia had sold over 4 million copies in just five weeks. I doubt Nintendo expected that it would be touting Pokopia as a system-selling bundled game, but its appeal to a certain vintage of nostalgic Pokémon fan — which is stronger, arguably, than Pokémon Legends: Z-A's — makes it a perfect fit.

If you want to snap the bundle up, you should act fast; you'll only have three months before the price increase comes into effect. Oh, and Nintendo warns that the bundle will only be available for a limited time, "while supplies last."