Switch 2 Price Hike Looms – Grab Refurbished Bundles and Memory
Nintendo’s confirmed September price increase for the Switch 2 turns this week’s deals into a last call for savings. Amazon-owned Woot is offering a Grade A refurbished Switch 2 bundled with a Mario Kart World download code for $419 — $80 below the $499 retail price and one of the first notable discounts on hardware that’s still supply-constrained on store shelves. At the same time, Walmart has a pair of microSD Express cards that address the base model’s biggest weakness: its 256GB of internal storage fills up fast when modern AAA titles routinely push 40-60GB each.
$419 Locks in the Bundle Before the Bump
The refurbished bundle covers both the console and the system’s flagship racer for $419, which leaves room in the budget for essentials like a carrying case or power bank before the September hike resets prices upward. Mario Kart World runs at a steady 60fps in handheld mode according to IGN’s review, making it a solid showcase for the Switch 2’s portable capabilities. Woot’s Grade A refurbished rating means the unit typically shows minimal wear, though stock on these bundles tends to turn over quickly. For anyone who’s been waiting on a price drop that never came — the Switch 2 has been consistently hard to find at MSRP — this deal effectively delivers the discount that retail never offered.
256GB Isn’t Enough for a Portable Library
The base Switch 2 ships with 256GB of internal storage, enough for maybe four or five modern titles before the “manage software” screen becomes a regular stop. Walmart’s Onn 512GB microSD Express card at $84.77 solves that directly: its 800MB/s read and 600MB/s write speeds match the Switch 2’s faster data bus, keeping load times snappy for games like Tears of the Kingdom or the upcoming Metroid Prime 4. That’s roughly $0.17 per gigabyte for a card that slots flush into the system — no dongles, no adapters, no trade-offs in portability.
Metal Gear Solid on Switch at Half Price
For original Switch holdouts not ready to upgrade, Best Buy has Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.1 for $19.99 — 50% off and one of the better per-game values on the platform. The collection includes MGS, MGS2, and MGS3, all running natively on Switch hardware. Snake Eater’s jungle environments benefit from the OLED screen’s deeper blacks, and suspend-resume handles the entire trilogy without friction. MGS3 is capped at 30fps on the Switch, a compromise the Steam Deck version avoids with some Proton configuration, but the Switch version offers genuine plug-and-play portability that its PC counterpart can’t match without tinkering.