Nintendo discounts its in-house games about as often as it warmly encourages downloading ROMs, so it’s something of a big deal to see the announcement that come November 22, games like Donkey Kong Bananza, Metroid Prime 4, and Kirby Air Riders will all be discounted by $20. The Thanksgiving season will also see the return of the Mario Kart World Switch 2 bundle on November 22, priced at $500, which is the current price of a Switch 2 on its own.
You may well remember that when the Switch 2 launched in June 2025, the version bundled with a download code for Mario Kart World was then priced at $500. But in the 18 months since, the price of the Switch 2 has jumped up $50 thanks to the AI-driven component crisis and Trump’s inane tariffs. Thus, returning to the baseline represents something of a bargain in our upside-down times. That bundled deal, which also comes with three months of Nintendo Switch Online, will run from November 22 to December 5, and obviously depends on available stock.
For a slightly shorter window, a handful of Nintendo’s own games will also get the Black Friday treatment via retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, GameStop and Walmart, as well as Nintendo’s own U.S. stores. From November 22 to 29, Switch 2 titles Donkey Kong Bananza, Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Kirby Air Riders, and Super Mario Party Jamboree will all be $20 less, meaning the very splendid Donkey Kong game will be just $50 instead of $70. Meanwhile the Switch versions of Super Mario Party Jamboree and Metroid Prime 4 will also receive twenty-buck reductions.
Running over yet another set of dates (Nintendo never wants anything to be straightforward), the eShop will be having its own Black Friday sale, this time from November 19 to December 2. So far there are no details about which games will be seeing price drops, but hopefully it’ll see the same titles getting similar discounts. But this is Nintendo, so who knows? Clearly the eShop’s sale will also encompass every other publisher’s games at lower prices too. (Presumably at this point Ubisoft will be paying us to get a copy of Mario vs. Rabbids.)
Seeing Nintendo’s own games getting price cuts is not common, especially ones as recent as DK Bananza and Metroid Prime 4, so if you were waiting on either, this’ll be the time to pounce.
