The Nintendo Switch 2 is priced at $449 for a base edition. See our price comparison showing how that makes it one of the most expensive Nintendo consoles ever.
January’s Nintendo Switch 2 reveal event took the wraps off the console, but left a lot of details unanswered until now. After the initial reveal, I put together an analysis of the possible pricing for the console, using Nintendo’s own historical pricing strategies to guide my thinking. My conclusion then was that it would cost $399.
I… was wrong. The Nintendo Switch 2 will debut in June starting at $449.99, with a $499.99 version that includes Mario Kart World.
At that price, the Nintendo Switch 2 will be the most expensive console Nintendo has ever released, by some margin. And even adjusted for inflation, and when considering the various bundle packages of previous Nintendo consoles, the Nintendo Switch 2 will still be the most expensive Nintendo console ever made!
It’s not quite June yet, so I can’t update this chart to reflect the inflation-adjusted price to the same date of the Switch 2 launch, but the prices from February of this year are pretty illustrative of the change here.
[Ed. note: An earlier version of this list didn’t include information on pack-in games included in some console releases, and didn’t include the various NES bundles and prices.
